CQ Budget

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

News
Politics
Government
1
Reconciliation picks up, again
23 min
2
New budget, same problems
26 min
3
GOP leadership schism
22 min
4
Fiscal 2027 budget outlook
40 min
5
Uncertain path for Iran war funding
28 min
6
New threat to funding
24 min
7
War impact on funding standoff
20 min
8
Tug-of-war over tariffs
23 min
9
Immigration enforcement standoff
26 min
10
Homeland Security spending spat
25 min
11
Struggle for votes to end shutdown
25 min
12
Immigration funding impasse
23 min
13
Close to the finish line
27 min
14
Homeland Security punt and reconciliation talk
25 min
15
Appropriators get busy
23 min
16
Last chance for the year
23 min
17
Defense spending uptick
24 min
18
Two months to go
19 min
19
Appropriations back on track?
25 min
20
Politics of a shutdown
21 min
21
Shutdown pressures on the rise
18 min
22
Shutdown pain growing as November nears
23 min
23
'Power of the purse' at stake
23 min
24
Shutdown stalemate
26 min
25
Trapped in a shutdown
26 min