CQ Budget

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

News
Politics
Government
1
Struggle for votes to end shutdown
25 min
2
Immigration funding impasse
23 min
3
Close to the finish line
27 min
4
Homeland Security punt and reconciliation talk
25 min
5
Appropriators get busy
23 min
6
Last chance for the year
23 min
7
Defense spending uptick
24 min
8
Two months to go
19 min
9
Appropriations back on track?
25 min
10
Politics of a shutdown
21 min
11
Shutdown pressures on the rise
18 min
12
Shutdown pain growing as November nears
23 min
13
'Power of the purse' at stake
23 min
14
Shutdown stalemate
26 min
15
Trapped in a shutdown
26 min
16
Health subsidies standoff
26 min
17
Search for an end game
21 min
18
'Pocket rescission' showdown
21 min
19
Rough-and-tumble September
24 min
20
Politics of appropriations
23 min
21
Big test on rescissions
21 min
22
Political fallout of 'big, beautiful bill'
27 min
23
'Beautiful' bill picked apart
22 min
24
Medicaid and 'SALT' divide GOP
26 min
25
'Big, beautiful' bill on the line
25 min