CQ Budget

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

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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
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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
153
Partisan fiscal clash resumes
CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Peter Cohn outline the key elements of Joe Biden's budget.
21 min
154
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
155
Tax breaks percolating
18 min
156
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
157
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
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What's happening with infrastructure spending?
25 min
159
Two weeks and counting
15 min
160
Budget priorities clash in coming months
18 min
161
Getting something done
17 min
162
Movement on the appropriations process?
17 min
163
New year’s outlook for reconciliation package a...
16 min
164
Democrats look to new year to pass tax and spen...
20 min
165
Senate clears procedural debt limit measure
20 min
166
So much to do, so little time
25 min
167
At last, House passes massive reconciliation pa...
14 min
168
Will the reconciliation bill pass soon?
20 min
169
Reconciliation at risk
18 min
170
The skinny on the stripped down reconciliation ...
20 min
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What's the meaning of compromise?
18 min
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What’s next for the reconciliation bill?
17 min
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Debt limit crisis averted, for now
20 min
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President Biden's domestic agenda at stake
18 min
175
Stopgap funding faces uncertainty in the Senate
18 min