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Sen. Christopher S. Murphy has warned of “no smooth glide path” for appropriations bills after a shutdown battle left Democrats divided.

Appropriations back on track?

By Aidan Quigley, Aris Folley and David Lerman
Posted November 17, 2025 at 3:53pm
Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., left, and Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., are among those Republicans with reservations. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Senate payouts unnerve some in House GOP ahead of shutdown vote

By David Lerman
Posted November 12, 2025 at 7:41am
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer couldn’t keep his caucus united after a 40-day shutdown.

Politics of a shutdown

By Aris Folley, Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted November 10, 2025 at 6:37pm
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is among the architects of the deal.

Deal to end government shutdown advances in Senate

By David Lerman
Posted November 9, 2025 at 9:38pm, Updated at 10:52pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., seen here Oct. 29, is insisting Democrats reopen the government before any health care negotiations take place.

Shutdown pressures on the rise

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Jacob Fulton
Posted November 3, 2025 at 3:28pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., show no sign of yielding as the partial government shutdown enters its fourth week.

‘Power of the purse’ at stake

By Paul M. Krawzak, Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted October 20, 2025 at 5:16pm
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, center, at the White House on Sept. 29.

OMB head says layoffs will be ‘north of 10K’ as judge blocks cuts

By David Lerman
Posted October 15, 2025 at 8:25pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he has no intention of negotiating with Democrats until the shutdown ends.

Shutdown stalemate

By Aidan Quigley, Aris Folley and David Lerman
Posted October 14, 2025 at 5:45pm
President Donald Trump said Monday he'd make the "right deal" with Democrats on insurance tax credits.

Trump open to bipartisan health care deal to end shutdown

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Lia DeGroot
Posted October 6, 2025 at 7:38pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said at a news conference on Monday that he plans to keep the House in recess until the government reopens. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Trapped in a shutdown

By Aidan Quigley, Peter Cohn and David Lerman
Posted October 6, 2025 at 3:03pm
Speaker Mike Johnson conducts a news conference about the government shutdown in the Capitol on Thursday. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, right, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain are also pictured.

Shutdown to extend into next week as Trump readies budget knife

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted October 2, 2025 at 6:03pm
Vice President JD Vance, at podium; Senate Majority Leader John Thune, right; Speaker Mike Johnson, second from left; and Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought conduct a news conference after a meeting with President Donald Trump and top Democratic leaders at the White House on Monday.

No deal in sight as shutdown nears

By David Lerman
Posted September 29, 2025 at 7:16pm
From left, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.,and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., hold a news conference in the U.S. Capitol on June 11, 2025.

Trump-Democrats meeting drama fuels risk of shutdown

By David Lerman
Posted September 24, 2025 at 6:00am
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., hold a media availability in the Capitol on Feb. 4.

Trump puts kibosh on shutdown meeting with Democratic leaders

By David Lerman
Posted September 23, 2025 at 10:36am, Updated at 11:06am
Sen. Lisa Murkowski is seeking a middle ground in the battle to extend expiring health subsidies.

Health subsidies standoff

By David Lerman and Sandhya Raman
Posted September 22, 2025 at 6:21pm
From left, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., talk before the start of a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Wednesday.

Partisan stopgap funding bills fall short in Senate

By David Lerman
Posted September 19, 2025 at 1:54pm, Updated at 3:23pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., talks with reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Senate leaders set up dueling votes on stopgap funding bills

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted September 18, 2025 at 8:16pm
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole speaks to reporters in the Senate subway in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Neither side blinking yet as House preps for CR vote

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted September 18, 2025 at 6:13pm
Rep. Bryan Steil finds himself at the center of talks to keep the government open.

GOP leaders try to quell stopgap concerns as House vote nears

By Aidan Quigley, Sandhya Raman and David Lerman
Posted September 17, 2025 at 8:59pm
Speaker Mike Johnson likes the idea of an old-fashioned conference committee.

White House ‘anomalies’ list kick-starts stopgap funding talks

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted September 9, 2025 at 5:46pm
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole favors a short-term funding extension while the White House pushes for a longer one.

Search for an endgame

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted September 8, 2025 at 3:40pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., warned of a shutdown risk if the president pursues a 'pocket rescission.'

‘Pocket rescission’ showdown

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted September 2, 2025 at 5:17pm
Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen derailed the Commerce-Justice-Science spending bill in a partisan standoff over a new FBI headquarters.

Rough-and-tumble September

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted August 4, 2025 at 4:25pm
From left, ranking member Patty Murray, D-Wash., Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., attend Thursday's Senate Appropriations Committee markup in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

First three fiscal 2026 appropriations bills pass Senate

By David Lerman and Olivia M. Bridges
Posted August 1, 2025 at 8:16pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks to reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday, July 29, 2025.

Politics of appropriations

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted July 28, 2025 at 3:04pm
“We’re hearing people out and we are obviously weighing what an amendment process on the floor … might look like, what if any changes could be made in advance of the floor,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., seen here on July 9, said Monday.

Senators face crucial vote on $9.4 billion rescissions package

By Rachel Oswald and David Lerman
Posted July 14, 2025 at 7:05pm
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is one of several GOP senators who have expressed concern over foreign aid and public broadcasting cuts in the rescissions package. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Big test on rescissions

By Aidan Quigley, Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman
Posted July 14, 2025 at 4:08pm
Republicans are eager to promote their bill on the campaign trail, but Democrats smell blood.

Political fallout of ‘big, beautiful bill’

By David Lerman and Daniela Altimari
Posted July 7, 2025 at 2:09pm
Speaker Mike Johnson holds up the final vote total on passing President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" budget reconciliation bill on Thursday.

Mammoth budget bill heads to Trump’s desk in time for July Fourth

By David Lerman, Lia DeGroot and Sandhya Raman
Posted July 3, 2025 at 2:50pm, Updated at 3:11pm
An Architect of the Capitol worker wheels a bin full of empty pizza boxes from Speaker Mike Johnson’s office as the House prepares for a long night on Wednesday.

House nears passage of sweeping GOP budget bill

By David Lerman, Lia DeGroot and Sandhya Raman
Posted July 3, 2025 at 12:24am, Updated at 3:55am
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., right, and Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., do TV interviews in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Vibe shift in House as Trump, GOP leaders begin to flip votes

By David Lerman, Sandhya Raman, Olivia M. Bridges, David Jordan and Lia DeGroot
Posted July 2, 2025 at 7:30pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters before heading to the House chamber for a procedural vote on Wednesday.

GOP leaders work to convince House holdouts on budget package

By David Lerman, Lia DeGroot, David Jordan and Sandhya Raman
Posted July 2, 2025 at 4:32pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, flanked by Sens. John Barrasso and Michael D. Crapo, speaks to reporters after the Senate passed the reconciliation package on Tuesday.

‘Big, beautiful’ budget reconciliation package passes Senate

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted July 1, 2025 at 12:13pm, Updated at 12:49pm
Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., seen here on May 20, was among the final holdouts on a key procedural vote.

Senate votes to take up ‘big, beautiful’ revised budget bill

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted June 28, 2025 at 5:53pm, Updated June 29, 2025 at 12:53am
Speaker Mike Johnson conducts a news conference in the Capitol after a House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday.

GOP weighs canceling recess to wrap up Trump’s budget bill

By Aidan Quigley, Caitlin Reilly and David Lerman
Posted June 24, 2025 at 1:56pm, Updated at 4:59pm
The Senate parliamentarian has flagged several key provisions of the GOP's reconciliation bill as violations of the Byrd rule that restricts what can be considered.

‘Big, beautiful’ bill picked apart

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted June 23, 2025 at 3:54pm
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., seen here on June 10, said Medicaid cuts must be scaled back before he could vote for the reconciliation bill.

Medicaid and ‘SALT’ divide GOP

By Caitlin Reilly, Sandhya Raman and David Lerman
Posted June 17, 2025 at 3:59pm
Former Rep. Billy Long testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.

Ex-Rep. Long confirmed as Trump’s IRS commissioner

By David Lerman
Posted June 12, 2025 at 1:41pm
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talks with reporters outside the Capitol Hill Club after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.

House adopts fixes to keep ‘big, beautiful bill’ filibuster-proof

By David Lerman
Posted June 11, 2025 at 5:08pm
Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., fired a warning a shot to Senate Republicans urging them not to lower the cap on state and local tax deductions.

‘Big, beautiful’ bill on the line

By David Lerman, Peter Cohn and Caitlin Reilly
Posted June 9, 2025 at 2:20pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., seen here on May 22, will be walking a tightrope to push the budget reconciliation bill through the Senate.

Reconciliation headaches in Senate

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 2, 2025 at 3:15pm
Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley is pushing to soften the impact of Medicaid cuts in the House-passed reconciliation bill.

‘Big, beautiful’ bill heads to Senate

By Caitlin Reilly, Peter Cohn and David Lerman
Posted May 23, 2025 at 4:23pm
President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talk with reporters after a House Republican Conference meeting on the budget reconciliation bill in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Sweeping budget package passes House after weeks of arm-twisting

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted May 22, 2025 at 7:09am
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, left, and House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., along with other Freedom Caucus members speak to reporters about the reconciliation bill talks in the Capitol on Wednesday.

GOP budget vote goes down to the wire amid conservative pushback

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted May 21, 2025 at 12:13pm, Updated at 1:45pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives at the Cannon House Office Building to meet with Republican members of the House Budget Committee before a markup Sunday.

House Budget panel approves reconciliation package on second try

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted May 18, 2025 at 10:53pm, Updated May 19, 2025 at 12:16am
Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, on left, speaks with staff and Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., during the House Budget Committee markup of the reconciliation bill on Friday.

Weekend do-over planned for ‘big, beautiful’ budget package

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted May 16, 2025 at 12:46pm, Updated at 3:34pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves budget reconciliation negotiations to open the House on Thursday.

GOP leaders try to keep Friday reconciliation markup on track

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 15, 2025 at 8:42pm
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said he opposes the reconciliation bill partly because it wouldn't cut Medicaid deeply enough.

Medicaid cuts in play

By David Lerman, Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted May 12, 2025 at 6:17pm
President Donald Trump arrives for a ceremony with the Philadelphia Eagles, winners of the 2025 Super Bowl, on the South Lawn of the White House on April 28.

Trump’s budget ax

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 5, 2025 at 2:27pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, right, made a vague pledge to secure deep spending cuts in a rare joint news conference with Speaker Mike Johnson.

Budget promises put to the test

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 14, 2025 at 4:54pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., right, and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., hold a news conference on the revised budget resolution on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

House OKs budget blueprint after GOP leaders’ cuts pledge

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 10, 2025 at 9:34am, Updated at 1:16pm
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, arrives for the House Rules Committee hearing in the Capitol on Wednesday on bringing the budget resolution to the House floor.

Budget vote postponed in House as GOP works to quell revolt

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 9, 2025 at 5:38pm, Updated at 9:47pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, arrives for a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on April 1.

Budget battle in the House

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 7, 2025 at 3:59pm
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., says use of budget maneuver amounts to opening Pandora's box.

‘Current policy’ debate dogs budget reconciliation efforts

By David Lerman
Posted April 7, 2025 at 1:14pm
Staffers wheel pizzas through the Capitol as the Senate prepares to begin its vote-a-rama on the GOP’s budget resolution on Friday evening.

Senate begins long night of budget votes

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted April 4, 2025 at 9:36pm
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., seen in the Capitol on Thursday, was the last senator to vote on motion to proceed to the budget resolution.

Senate starts debate on GOP budget plan after delayed vote

By Caitlin Reilly and David Lerman
Posted April 3, 2025 at 8:36pm
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., walks through the Senate Reception Room in the Capitol on March 11.

Senate Republicans get ready to roll on revised budget

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted April 2, 2025 at 6:01pm, Updated April 7, 2025 at 2:45pm
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, faces a challenging climate on fiscal 2026 bills.

Tough climate for appropriations

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted March 28, 2025 at 6:40pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., conducts a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., also appear. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Budget timeline moves up in Senate as GOP preps flexible targets

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted March 27, 2025 at 10:35am
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., angered much of his party's base by agreeing to advance a stopgap funding bill.

Spending bill’s political fallout

By David Lerman and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted March 18, 2025 at 2:52pm
Flyers demanding Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., vote against the continuing resolution are taped to the Capitol South Metro station in Washington on Friday morning.

Trump signs stopgap spending measure, averting shutdown

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted March 14, 2025 at 5:31pm, Updated March 15, 2025 at 1:48pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., arrive for Senate Democrats’ lunch meeting in the Capitol on Thursday.

Senate Democrats relent on six-month stopgap funding bill

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted March 13, 2025 at 7:01pm, Updated at 8:02pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Senate Democrats play hardball, won’t advance House stopgap

By David Lerman
Posted March 12, 2025 at 5:20pm, Updated at 8:21pm
Speaker Mike Johnson conducts a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center after a House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., left, and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise also appear.

House passes wrapup spending package ahead of Friday deadline

By David Lerman
Posted March 11, 2025 at 5:50pm
Vice President JD Vance arrives to attend the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Vance pitches separate cuts package as House GOP preps CR vote

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted March 11, 2025 at 12:23pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference in the Capitol on March 6, 2025. Senate Democrats must decide if they want to vote against a spending extension and trigger a partial government shutdown. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Leadership test on spending

By David Lerman and Peter Cohn
Posted March 10, 2025 at 4:30pm
Elon Musk leaves a lunch with Senate Republicans in the Capitol on Wednesday. Aide Katie Miller appears at left.

GOP senators pitch Musk on using 1974 budget law to cut spending

By David Lerman
Posted March 5, 2025 at 8:06pm, Updated at 8:56pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., seen in the Capitol last week, will try to shepherd a continuing resolution through the House despite a partisan spat over reining in presidential spending authority. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Stopgap spending decision time

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted March 3, 2025 at 3:57pm
Josh Hawley is among the Senate Republicans who are unenthusiastic about the House’s proposed cuts to Medicaid.

‘Yeah, I don’t love that,’ or how the House learned to start jamming the Senate

By Jason Dick and David Lerman
Posted February 27, 2025 at 4:19pm
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., arrives in the Capitol for a vote on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Next up for ‘big, beautiful’ budget package: House-Senate talks

By Caitlin Reilly, David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted February 27, 2025 at 5:00am
Speaker Mike Johnson, right, and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise conduct a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on the morning of the budget resolution vote on Tuesday.

GOP budget adopted in House after late arm-twisting

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted February 25, 2025 at 8:25pm, Updated at 9:34pm
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., a critical swing vote on the budget resolution, has expressed concerns about making deep cuts to Medicaid.

Pivotal test for House budget

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted February 24, 2025 at 2:44pm
The Capitol dome is lit as the Senate votes on amendments throughout the night Thursday.

Senate plows through overnight budget ‘vote-a-rama’

By David Lerman
Posted February 20, 2025 at 4:32pm, Updated February 21, 2025 at 12:26am
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One en route to North Carolina and California on Jan. 24.

Budget reconciliation pressures mount

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted February 19, 2025 at 4:14pm
Vice President JD Vance leaves the Republican Senate luncheon in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Senate GOP sticks with slimmer budget plan, despite Trump

By Caitlin Reilly, David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted February 19, 2025 at 10:39am, Updated at 3:45pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, right, speaks as Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., listens during Senate Republicans’ news conference in the Capitol on Feb. 11.

Senate GOP ready to advance slimmer budget blueprint

By David Lerman
Posted February 18, 2025 at 7:34pm
Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, right, and ranking member Brendan F. Boyle, D-Pa., are seen during the House Budget Committee markup on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

House budget headed for panel approval after deal with holdouts

By Caitlin Reilly and David Lerman
Posted February 13, 2025 at 12:10pm
Rep. Blake D. Moore, R-Utah, the vice chair of the House Republican Conference, is seen in the Capitol on Jan. 14.

House budget blueprint ready for close-up amid GOP ‘angst’

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted February 12, 2025 at 1:50pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday.

House GOP preps all-in-one budget blueprint for committee vote

By Aidan Quigley, Caitlin Reilly and David Lerman
Posted February 11, 2025 at 1:45pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to reporters in the Capitol on Feb. 5. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Budget reconciliation stalls

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted February 10, 2025 at 3:35pm
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is seen at a news conference in the Capitol on Feb. 5. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Johnson: Budget blueprint not ready for prime time

By David Lerman
Posted February 9, 2025 at 11:15am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves a news conference after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Feb. 5. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

House Republicans to work through weekend on budget package

By David Lerman
Posted February 7, 2025 at 5:52am
Russ Vought, confirmed Thursday as director of the Office of Management, is shown at a confirmation hearing with the Senate Budget Committee Jan. 22.

Firebrand Vought confirmed as White House budget director

By David Lerman
Posted February 6, 2025 at 7:58pm
Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., arrives for the start of the confirmation hearing for director of Office of Management and Budget nominee Russell Vought on Jan. 22.

Senate GOP prepares to move on two-step budget package

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted February 5, 2025 at 5:50pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., at the Republican National Committee meeting on Jan. 22. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Divided House GOP searches for solution on budget resolution

By Caitlin Reilly and David Lerman
Posted February 5, 2025 at 5:42am
President Donald Trump reviews the troops, starting with the U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own," in Emancipation Hall after being sworn in at the Capitol on Jan. 20.

Executive order would establish US sovereign wealth fund

By David Lerman
Posted February 3, 2025 at 8:17pm
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a leader of the Freedom Caucus, boycotted a GOP policy retreat and made clear his opposition to a preliminary budget plan.

House GOP in a quandary

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted February 3, 2025 at 3:09pm
Senate Budget Committee Democrats hold a media availability in protest of the committee advancing Russ Vought’s nomination to be director of the Office of Management and Budget on Thursday. From left are Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va.

Vought nomination advances despite Democrats’ boycott

By David Lerman, Paul M. Krawzak and Caitlin Reilly
Posted January 30, 2025 at 2:17pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, center, speaks during Senate Democrats’ news conference Tuesday on the Trump administration’s spending freeze on federal assistance. Also seen are, from left, Sens. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Amy Klobuchar, of Minnesota, Patty Murray of Washington and Andy Kim of New Jersey.

Funding freeze turmoil

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted January 28, 2025 at 3:48pm
“I don't mind reviewing things. I just want to find out what happened, and what's the end game,” Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said.

White House seeks to tamp down concerns over funding directive

By Aidan Quigley, Caitlin Reilly and David Lerman
Posted January 28, 2025 at 2:37pm, Updated at 3:39pm
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries talks with reporters after his weekly news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday.

Jeffries warns GOP over ‘big, beautiful’ budget bill

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted January 23, 2025 at 5:32pm
Elon Musk is seen on a television during a watch party for the second inauguration of President Donald Trump at Union Pub on Capitol Hill on Monday.

‘DOGE’ to have its day — in court

By David Lerman
Posted January 20, 2025 at 5:01pm, Updated at 6:47pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is pushing for a comprehensive reconciliation package despite divisions within his conference and opposition from Senate Republicans.

Budget reconciliation ‘horse race’

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted January 17, 2025 at 2:26pm
President-elect Donald Trump and wife Melania, followed by Senate Majority Leader John Thune and wife Kimberly, walk through the Ohio Clock Corridor on Wednesday.

‘Horse race’ is on as Trump hears from senators on budget strategy

By Caitlin Reilly and David Lerman
Posted January 8, 2025 at 9:17pm
Sen. Max Baucus is questioned by reporters outside the Senate Foreign Relations room in the Capitol, where members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, also know as the “super committee,” were holding a meeting on Nov. 17, 2011.

So you want to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget

By Jason Dick, Peter Cohn and David Lerman
Posted January 8, 2025 at 4:11pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, center, appears in the House chamber on Friday with vote flippers Ralph Norman, second from right, center, and Keith Self, far right, who were critical to his election.

GOP’s fragile majority

By David Lerman and Jim Saksa
Posted January 6, 2025 at 4:46pm
President-elect Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks on New Year's Eve at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.

Trump open to two-step budget plan despite earlier comments

By David Lerman
Posted January 6, 2025 at 12:57pm, Updated at 2:44pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, arriving in the House chamber after winning the gavel for the 119th Congress on Friday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Quick action planned for ‘big, beautiful’ budget bill

By David Lerman
Posted January 5, 2025 at 3:23pm, Updated at 9:45pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., struggled to pass a stopgap funding measure that alienated his party's right flank.

Political fallout over spending

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted December 23, 2024 at 1:27pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday.

No shutdown: Biden signs three-month stopgap funding bill

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted December 20, 2024 at 7:00pm, Updated December 22, 2024 at 9:15pm