CQ Budget

CQ Roll Call’s budget tracker David Lerman explains how lawmakers in Congress spend the nation’s money.

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Aid package puzzle
CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Lindsey McPherson discuss the latest twists and turns in assembling billions of dollars of supplemental funding.
23 min
102
Aid quandary for Congress
The tangle over supplemental funding and assess the prospects for fiscal 2023 appropriations, a downsized "Build Back Better" measure and more.
25 min
103
Unfinished fiscal agenda
CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak outline a jam-packed agenda after the April recess that includes pandemic aid, restaurant relief, a semiconductor manufacturing measure, fiscal 2023 appropriations, and possibly a resurrected "Build Back Better" package.
23 min
104
Pandemic aid package derailed
CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Aidan Quigley examine how a bipartisan compromise came unglued and the prospects for salvaging the $10 billion aid package for COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics.
16 min
105
Partisan fiscal clash resumes
CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Peter Cohn outline the key elements of Joe Biden's budget.
21 min
106
What to expect in the Biden administration budget
CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak preview the major elements of a budget package that Congress will wrestle with in coming months.
17 min
107
Tax breaks percolating
18 min
108
Omnibus spending deal done
CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Lindsey McPherson discuss omnibus appropriations for the current fiscal year making it across the finish line this week.
23 min
109
Countdown to a spending deal
CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Peter Cohn assess the state of spending negotiations and discuss a lower-profile bill offering a major expansion of veterans' health care benefits.
19 min
110
What's happening with infrastructure spending?
25 min
111
Two weeks and counting
15 min
112
Budget priorities clash in coming months
18 min
113
Getting something done
17 min
114
Movement on the appropriations process?
17 min
115
New year’s outlook for reconciliation package a...
16 min
116
Democrats look to new year to pass tax and spen...
20 min
117
Senate clears procedural debt limit measure
20 min
118
So much to do, so little time
25 min
119
At last, House passes massive reconciliation pa...
14 min
120
Will the reconciliation bill pass soon?
20 min
121
Reconciliation at risk
18 min
122
The skinny on the stripped down reconciliation ...
20 min
123
What's the meaning of compromise?
18 min
124
What’s next for the reconciliation bill?
17 min
125
Debt limit crisis averted, for now
20 min