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What awaits Congress before summer recess
Bipartisan infrastructure plan reached
Democrats go big with new spending proposal
Spending season begins with uncertainty
Appropriators prepare for abortion funding fight
Looking ahead at a busy appropriations season
Infrastructure week, again
Budget season preview
Biden goes even bigger on spending
Senate Republicans push for $568 billion counteroffer on infrastructure
Democrats torn over strategy for passing $2T infrastructure plan
Boosting domestic spending
Why a $2 trillion infrastructure plan is a heavy lift
White House set to unveil budget framework
The return of earmarks in Congress
House to vote on Senate-amended coronavirus bill
Senate to take up $1.9 trillion aid bill
Tanden in hot water over confirmation
Teeing up COVID-19 relief package for debate next week
House Democrats tinker with $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan
Can the $618 billion GOP relief plan push the needle on bipartisanship?
Biden weighs strategy for COVID-19 relief
The Biden administration goes big on COVID-19 relief
How does budget reconciliation work?
New House rules loosen fiscal restraints
Congress clears omnibus spending package with coronavirus relief
Will COVID-19 aid be contained in the government spending package?
Bumps in the road for $908 billion bipartisan COVID-19 aid deal
Nominee for White House OMB, Neera Tanden, comes under fire by GOP
Democrats eager to revive earmarks
COVID-19 relief and omnibus spending bill face long odds
How the transition of power may affect spending
How will a strong showing from Republicans this election affect the budget process?
How the election may impact the spending process
Pre-election deadline looms for coronavirus aid deal
Republicans and Trump at odds over coronavirus relief
Could we see the return of earmarks?
Democrats release new COVID-19 relief bill
House Democrats draft stopgap funding bill without Republican support
Lawmakers navigate politics in tackling a stopgap funding measure
Debt levels set to break records
Trump forced through some COVID-19 relief. Now what?
COVID-19 relief talks progress slowly
Senate Republicans release their COVID-19 relief bill. Is it enough?
COVID-19 aid negotiations ramp up
What’s in the Labor-HHS-Education bill for fiscal 2021?
Confederate statues, COVID-19, nuclear testing mark appropriations process
COVID-19’s impact on Social Security and Medicare trust funds
Breakdown in the Senate appropriations process
Appropriators face busy summer following COVID-19 delays
Surprising jobs report could slow next coronavirus aid package
Disparity between police and fire departments over virus aid
The cost of battling multiple disasters
The House passed a $3 trillion aid package. Now what?
House Democrats set the bar for the next coronavirus relief bill
A long road ahead for the next coronavirus relief bill
The US may be heading into one of the worst recessions in history
Congress reaches agreement for a fourth relief bill, but is it enough?
Congress struggles to find a solution for small business funding
Congressional leaders lay down markers for fourth relief package
What happens to the appropriations process now?
Coronavirus emergency funding is just getting started
Union pension funds trigger congressional rescue efforts
Candidates already jockeying to lead House Appropriations Committee
Military weapons funding takes hit for border wall
Top takeaways from Trump's latest budget proposal
Infrastructure week is back again
The most wonderful time of the year: budget forecast release week
Congress faces narrow spending increase as VA health care costs balloon
Previewing the appropriations process in 2020
Talking Taxes 2020
Year-end spending deal avoids government shutdown
Lawmakers appear eager to reach year-end spending deal
The outlook for a year-end tax bill
Congress barreling toward agreement on stopgap funding measure, avoiding a shutdown before holiday
Senate budget writers offer up a revamped budget process
Congress struggles to agree on funding as November deadline looms
Budget deficit nears the $1 trillion mark
Bipartisan cooperation put to the test in Senate
Power struggle over the House Appropriations Committee
Averting a government shutdown
Why partisan spending allocations spell trouble for the appropriations process
Can Congress avoid a shutdown?
Friction over diverted disaster aid ahead of Hurricane Dorian
Tax cuts: Four flips in four days.
ICYMI: The Democrats' tax package explained
CQ Roll Call Analysis: Lower spending, deficits partially due to budget control law
Two tax battles await Congress in September
What the two-year budget deal means for federal spending
Budget, debt limit deal nears completion, and rescuing union pensions
Debt limit talks pick up pace and tax credit bonanza
Why there's no Senate spending plan as deadline nears
Financial Services bill loaded with hot-button issues may signal trouble ahead
The Democrats' tax package explained
The politics behind spending limit negotiations
Democrats' Spending Bill Strategy
Ex CBO director knocks GOP on Obamacare and Congress for rising deficits
House to consider disaster aid again after GOP Rep. Roy deals setback
Taliban money and fighter jets at issue in Pentagon's $690 billion bill
Stalemate over disaster aid frustrates states