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CQ Budget — 380 episodes · page 1 of 4
Power of the purse challenged
Iran war funding dilemma
Winter funding fight brewing
Congress punts on big issues
Unfinished business
Senate funding patch secured
Funding patch expands
House spending push
New push on reconciliation 3.0
Leadership test in House
Spending split
Reconciliation 3.0 hurdles
At the finish line
'Anti-weaponization' fund retreat
Immigration funding bill derailed
Reconciliation race
Ballroom blitz
GOP friction over shutdown finale
Critical test for immigration funding
Reconciliation picks up, again
New budget, same problems
GOP leadership schism
Fiscal 2027 budget outlook
Uncertain path for Iran war funding
New threat to funding
War impact on funding standoff
Tug-of-war over tariffs
Immigration enforcement standoff
Homeland Security spending spat
Struggle for votes to end shutdown
Immigration funding impasse
Close to the finish line
Homeland Security punt and reconciliation talk
Appropriators get busy
Last chance for the year
Defense spending uptick
Two months to go
Appropriations back on track?
Politics of a shutdown
Shutdown pressures on the rise
Shutdown pain growing as November nears
'Power of the purse' at stake
Shutdown stalemate
Trapped in a shutdown
Health subsidies standoff
Search for an end game
'Pocket rescission' showdown
Rough-and-tumble September
Politics of appropriations
Big test on rescissions
Political fallout of 'big, beautiful bill'
'Beautiful' bill picked apart
Medicaid and 'SALT' divide GOP
'Big, beautiful' bill on the line
Reconciliation headaches in Senate
'Big, beautiful' bill heads to Senate
Medicaid cuts in play
Trump's budget ax
Budget promises put to the test
Budget battle in the House
Tough climate for appropriations
Spending bill's political fallout
Leadership test on spending
Stopgap spending decision time
Pivotal test for House budget
Budget reconciliation pressures mount
Budget reconciliation stalls
House GOP in a quandary
Funding freeze turmoil
Budget reconciliation 'horse race'
GOP's fragile majority
Political fallout over spending
Big tax-cut and spending agenda
The meaning of DOGE
Disaster aid scrubbing
Funding strategy unresolved
Post-election end game
Finish line in sight
Long wait for a funding plan
Politics of stopgap spending
Spending bill punts
Appropriations derailed
GOP's political edge
Law enforcement funding battle
Border security and foreign aid fights
Spending caps in peril
Defense spending schism
Appropriations sprint begins
Food stamps fight
Funding allocations trouble
Weapons freeze backlash
Aviation bill dogfight
Earmarks culture war
Politics of Ukraine aid
Johnson's conundrum
Tumultuous appropriations cycle
Biden's budget dissected
Dueling claims on new spending package
Appropriations impasse
War funding makes headway