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Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro is preparing to step down amid a clash with the White House. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

GAO chief’s pending exit tees up battle for a successor

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted December 10, 2025 at 4:31am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is seen in the Capitol Monday after briefing the media on a timeline to possibly end the government shutdown.

House leaders seek repeal of Senate push for GOP payouts

By Aris Folley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted November 12, 2025 at 5:08pm
Hegseth, at left, appears safe from prosecution for diverting funds to pay the troops during shutdown.

Spending law unenforceable if the president wants to violate it

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted November 4, 2025 at 12:09pm
President Donald Trump is pictured at the White House on Sept. 25.

Trump suggests no need for another ‘big, beautiful bill’

By Paul M. Krawzak and John T. Bennett
Posted October 21, 2025 at 4:36pm
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
A sign displayed at a news conference with Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday reads, "Our government is not Russ' toy," referring to White House budget director Russ Vought. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Trump’s military pay move puts Congress in the back seat on spending

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted October 17, 2025 at 5:45am
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, says 'backup' legislation couldn't hurt. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Stopgap fix or separate bill may be needed to unlock shutdown pay

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted October 8, 2025 at 8:28am
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer conducts a news conference on the third day of the partial government shutdown in the Capitol on Friday.

Shutdown drags on amid talk of side deals to get stopgap unstuck

By Ariel Cohen, Sandhya Raman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted October 3, 2025 at 6:36pm
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
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., talks with reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Bipartisan talks to end shutdown percolate in Senate

By Aidan Quigley, Jessie Hellmann and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted October 1, 2025 at 5:27pm
President Donald Trump prepares to greet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before a meeting at the White House on Thursday.

Trump to meet with Hill leaders ahead of shutdown deadline

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted September 27, 2025 at 7:54pm, Updated at 8:20pm
Activists hold signs outside the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Washington on Feb. 3.

Shutdown could bolster White House’s legal case for ‘RIFs’

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted September 26, 2025 at 4:56pm
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought talks with reporters in the Capitol on July 15. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Shutdown pain may not be evenly spread as OMB readies hatchet

By Paul M. Krawzak and Ryan Kelly
Posted September 26, 2025 at 4:33pm
President Donald Trump prepares to greet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before a meeting at the White House on Thursday.

White House ramps up pressure on Democrats’ shutdown strategy

By Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted September 25, 2025 at 4:49pm
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
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
Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought is seen in the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 19, 2024.

Ex-budget staffers weigh in against Trump ‘pocket rescissions’

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted September 2, 2025 at 1:50pm
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

White House restores spending database it sought to keep secret

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted August 19, 2025 at 5:19am
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on July 24.

Senate panel approves bill to ban elected officials’ stock trades

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted July 30, 2025 at 6:13pm
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
Then-Senate Appropriations Chairman Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., is pictured in 2008. (Scott J. Ferrell/CQ archives)

Why reconciliation is a ‘privilege’ for lawmakers, not a right

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 18, 2025 at 5:00am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at a news conference on June 4, flanked by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., left, and Rep. Mark Messmer, R-Ind. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

CBO: GOP budget bill would take from the poor, give to the rich

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 12, 2025 at 2:58pm, Updated at 3:43pm
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrives for a House Financial Services Committee hearing on May 7.

CBO: Debt limit ‘X-date’ likely not until mid-August at earliest

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 9, 2025 at 4:18pm
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
President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talk with reporters after a House Republican meeting in the Capitol on May 20. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Trump, GOP prep next chapter in spending cuts agenda

By Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 29, 2025 at 8:21am
Former Missouri Republican Rep. Billy Long, nominated to be commissioner of the IRS, testifies during his confirmation hearing at the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday.

Trump IRS nominee grilled over ties to fraudulent tax credits

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted May 20, 2025 at 4:23pm
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
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives for a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on April 1.

House GOP won’t be jammed by Senate on budget, leaders pledge

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 5, 2025 at 3:23pm
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought is seen during initial meetings with senators on Dec. 9, prior to President Donald Trump taking office and formally submitting his nomination.

White House scraps public spending database

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted March 24, 2025 at 1:02pm, Updated at 2:50pm
Former Sen. Alan K. Simpson is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then-President Joe Biden in 2022.

Simpson remembered as a giant of the Senate, literally

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted March 14, 2025 at 4:46pm
Eric Ueland is seen while escorting Pete Hegseth, then Trump's nominee-designate for Defense secretary, to meetings with senators on Dec. 3, 2024.

Veteran GOP aide gets nod for a top slot in Trump’s budget office

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted March 11, 2025 at 12:45pm
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
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
Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon is among the holdouts that GOP leaders need to win over.

House Republicans ready to roll the dice on budget blueprint

By Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted February 21, 2025 at 4:51pm
Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham arrives for the the confirmation hearing of Russell Vought, the nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget, on January 22.

Graham unveils budget blueprint ahead of markup next week

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted February 7, 2025 at 5:05pm
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
Russ Vought, picked to lead the Office of Management and Budget, arrives for his confirmation hearing in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

Vought gets chilly reception from Senate Homeland Security Democrats

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted January 15, 2025 at 6:46pm
Former Senate Parliamentarian Robert Dove testifies on the history of the filibuster at a Senate Rules Committee hearing on April 22, 2010. Dove died in 2021.

Senate guidance on budget bills would put House at disadvantage

By Paul M. Krawzak and Peter Cohn
Posted January 14, 2025 at 2:48pm
Former South Carolina Democratic Rep. John M. Spratt Jr. died on Saturday.

Spratt, longtime top Budget panel Democrat, dies at 82

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted December 15, 2024 at 8:03pm
Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, testifies during a House Budget Committee hearing in 2020.

The man with a plan to upend government, and what it entails

By Paul M. Krawzak and Peter Cohn
Posted December 2, 2024 at 12:44pm
Russ Vought, former OMB director, conducts a news conference outside the Capitol with House Republicans to oppose vaccine mandates on Nov. 5, 2021.

Vought picked for repeat performance at Trump’s budget office

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted November 22, 2024 at 7:33pm
Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young testifies at a March 21 House Budget Committee hearing on the president's fiscal 2025 budget request.

White House asks for nearly $100B disaster relief package

By Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted November 18, 2024 at 4:53pm
A lawn sign in Saginaw Township, Mich., reads "I'm voting for the felon and the hillbilly," references to former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio.

Bellwether Michigan county in the spotlight as parties angle for votes

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted November 1, 2024 at 5:30am
Robert A. Sunshine, then the Congressional Budget Office’s deputy director, is pictured in a Sept. 21, 2012, interview with CQ Roll Call.

Respected CBO staffer retires after nearly a half-century

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted September 30, 2024 at 6:00am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., paved the way for a bipartisan stopgap funding bill after shelving a push for an election security measure.

Finish line in sight

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted September 23, 2024 at 2:14pm
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., arrives for a House Democratic Caucus meeting in the Capitol Visitor Center on July 23.

House eyes vote early next week on bipartisan CR

By Aidan Quigley, Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman
Posted September 19, 2024 at 5:30pm
Former President Donald Trump arrives on stage in the Fiserv Forum on the last night of the Republican National Convention on July 18.

Trump win would spark constitutional fight over spending power

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted July 31, 2024 at 12:05pm
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., chair of the Senate Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee, is sure to oppose the Justice Department funding cuts sought by House Republicans.

Law enforcement funding battle

By David Lerman, Ryan Tarinelli and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted July 1, 2024 at 3:14pm
Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip Swagel testifies during a House Budget Committee hearing on Feb. 14.

CBO: Deficits and inflation higher, but so is economic growth

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 18, 2024 at 7:36pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., opened the door to renegotiating a budget caps deal but warned that nondefense spending must increase with defense.

Spending caps in peril

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 17, 2024 at 3:15pm
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, leaves a House Republican Conference meeting at the Capitol Hill Club on Tuesday.

Roy eyes ‘steamroller’ agenda if Republicans sweep in November

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 30, 2024 at 5:14pm
House Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, and Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young, talk before a March 21 House Budget Committee hearing on the president's budget request.

House GOP wants answers from OMB about rulemaking costs

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 29, 2024 at 11:35am
Demonstrators supporting Ukraine funding are seen outside the Capitol before the House passed the foreign aid package on Saturday.

Senate looks to clear aid bill Tuesday night with no amendments

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 23, 2024 at 5:15pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., navigates through reporters in the Capitol on Thursday.

Rule for debate on war supplemental heads to House floor

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 19, 2024 at 12:14am
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on his agency's fiscal 2025 budget request on Wednesday.

Mayorkas soldiers on through budget hearings, despite impeachment

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 10, 2024 at 6:41pm
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on Feb. 6.

Legal opinion gives Treasury leeway ahead of debt limit fight

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 10, 2024 at 6:30am, Updated at 8:38am
Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., arrives for a vote in the Capitol on Nov. 2, 2023.

Senate Democrats weigh Feinstein’s Energy-Water panel successor

By Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 8, 2024 at 1:06pm, Updated at 5:54pm
President Joe Biden, left, and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., right, face an election-year clash over the president's fiscal 2025 budget.

Biden’s budget dissected

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley, Caitlin Reilly and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted March 25, 2024 at 2:54pm
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., the House's top Agriculture bill negotiator, has some demands.

Critical spending decisions await Tuesday White House meeting

By Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted February 26, 2024 at 7:57pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is facing stiff resistance from his party's right flank as he tries to negotiate spending bills.

Appropriations impasse

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted February 26, 2024 at 5:58pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the Capitol on Feb. 14.

House to return next week as GOP expects spending bills to pass

By Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted February 23, 2024 at 5:04pm, Updated at 9:19pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is under pressure to include the Freedom Caucus' conservative priorities in spending bills, which the Democrat-led Senate is likely to oppose.

Appropriations talks chug along; stopgap eyed as backup plan

By Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted February 23, 2024 at 5:49am
Grover Norquist, founder of the conservative anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform, is helping to lead the effort against the proposed fiscal commission.

Fiscal commission bills under fire from conservative groups

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted February 8, 2024 at 10:00am
President Joe Biden, right, and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., shake hands after the National Prayer Breakfast in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Thursday.

Supermajority bar for spending bills a real, and risky, prospect

By Paul M. Krawzak and Peter Cohn
Posted February 5, 2024 at 2:55pm
House Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, right, and ranking member Rep. Brendan F. Boyle, D-Pa., talk during Thursday's markup.

Bill to create new debt commission approved in House panel

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted January 18, 2024 at 6:58pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, at left, and Speaker Mike Johnson, center, are trying to pass a short-term funding patch this week to head off a partial shutdown.

Under the gun

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted January 16, 2024 at 3:15pm
Speaker Mike Johnson faces blowback from his party's right flank over the new spending deal he negotiated.

Familiar spending deal

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted January 8, 2024 at 3:28pm
President Joe Biden at the White House on Dec. 11.

Big pay raise means big tradeoffs under spending stalemate

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted December 28, 2023 at 6:00am
Martin O’Malley, nominee to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration, is seen in the Capitol on Nov. 28.

O’Malley confirmed as Social Security commissioner

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted December 18, 2023 at 6:13pm
President Joe Biden, seen during an event to celebrate the Vegas Golden Knights’ 2023 Stanley Cup victory on Monday, has been noncommittal about his position.

Senate leaders give green light to Johnson stopgap funds plan

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted November 13, 2023 at 7:49pm, Updated at 9:29pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is pushing for a two-tiered stopgap funding measure without spending cuts or emergency military aid.

Showdown week for stopgap funding

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted November 13, 2023 at 1:45pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference on Nov. 7 with family members of hostages taken by Hamas during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

Johnson offers up two-tiered stopgap funds plan

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted November 11, 2023 at 5:25pm, Updated at 6:30pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, November 7, 2023.

Senate stopgap plan might extend to January, jettison war funds

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted November 11, 2023 at 11:19am
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., is one of nine Republicans competing to win the GOP nomination for speaker.

Scramble for speakership

By David Lerman, Laura Weiss and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted October 23, 2023 at 1:18pm
Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., said he would run for majority leader after the current holder of that position, Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise, was nominated by the GOP conference for speaker.

Hern wants to replace Scalise as majority leader

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted October 11, 2023 at 2:17pm, Updated at 2:58pm
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., says the House speaker's job may be on the line if he cuts a deal with Democrats.

Senate readies stopgap as House tries again on full-year bills

By Aidan Quigley, Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman
Posted September 25, 2023 at 8:11pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., stops to speak to reporters as he leaves the House Republican Conference meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday.

Four spending bills readied for House floor amid stopgap uncertainty

By Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted September 23, 2023 at 4:12pm
Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., talks to reporters after a GOP conference meeting on Tuesday.

Partisan House GOP stopgap funds bill on halting comeback trail

By Paul M. Krawzak and Laura Weiss
Posted September 19, 2023 at 7:38pm
Rep. Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, leaves a House GOP meeting at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on Wednesday, May 10, 2023.

Balanced-budget plan unveiled by House Republicans

By Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman
Posted September 19, 2023 at 10:15am
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., one of the lead negotiators on temporary funding bill, is seen in the Capitol on Sept. 14.

House GOP makes first move in stopgap funding fight

By Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted September 17, 2023 at 11:39pm
Sen. Ron Johnson blocked consideration of a three-bill spending package on the floor.

Appropriations on the skids

By David Lerman, Peter Cohn and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted September 15, 2023 at 2:43pm
Reps. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., right, and Scott Perry, R-Pa., confer at a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on Wednesday.

House GOP starts to coalesce around stopgap funding plan

By Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman
Posted September 14, 2023 at 6:19pm
Rep. Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, walks down the House steps of the Capitol on May 18.

Arrington sets House budget resolution markup next week

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted September 13, 2023 at 3:17pm, Updated at 4:55pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in a bind with his caucus over spending, faces storm damage in his own state.

Senate mulls going first on stopgap, supplemental funds package

By Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted August 23, 2023 at 9:09am
Then-Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, left, walks with Majority Leader Eric Cantor after a December 2013 meeting to discuss a budget deal announced the previous evening.

No sign of ‘debt limit 2.0’ talks as shutdown looms

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted August 11, 2023 at 2:54pm
From left, Reps. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., and Bob Good, R-Va., prepare for a news conference with members of the House Freedom Caucus on appropriations outside the Capitol on Tuesday.

GOP conservatives’ demands imperil House spending bills

By Aidan Quigley, David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted July 25, 2023 at 5:31pm
Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, center, and ranking Republican Susan Collins, right, are plowing through their fiscal 2024 bills with bipartisan support, unlike their House counterparts.

Divergent spending paths

By David Lerman, Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted July 21, 2023 at 3:59pm
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., leaves a news conference after a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the Capitol on June 6.

House GOP readies more cuts to fiscal 2024 appropriations bills

By Aidan Quigley, Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman
Posted July 20, 2023 at 3:42pm
Senate Appropriations Committee ranking member Susan Collins, R-Maine, right, and Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., lead a full committee markup on June 22, 2023.

Murray, Collins strike deal on fiscal 2024 emergency funds

By Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman
Posted July 17, 2023 at 10:00am
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is one of the House Freedom Caucus members demanding steeper spending cuts.

Appropriations collision course

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted July 14, 2023 at 1:00pm
Automatic cuts are among the unexplored quirks of language in the debt ceiling law inspired by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.

Automatic spending cuts would threaten infrastructure funding

By Paul M. Krawzak and Peter Cohn
Posted July 7, 2023 at 5:00am
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said he wants "clear cuts" and to consider him a "no" vote on appropriations bills "until you hear otherwise."

House GOP may move stopgap spending bill as soon as this month

By Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman
Posted July 3, 2023 at 4:00pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., conducts a news conference on May 31 after the House passed a bill to raise the debt limit and cap future spending.

CBO says long-term debt lower than forecast last year

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 28, 2023 at 4:26pm
Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., second from right, and vice chair Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, right, pledged bipartisanship but clashed over subcommittee allocations. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Spending allocations clash

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 23, 2023 at 4:24pm
Then-President Donald Trump, flanked from left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and then-Vice President Mike Pence, speaks to reporters in the Capitol on Jan. 9, 2018.

Trump says he’ll restore presidential impoundment authority

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 20, 2023 at 6:20pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy makes his way to the House floor for a procedural vote on the debt limit bill on Wednesday.

Debt limit package passes House, heads to Senate

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted May 31, 2023 at 9:30pm
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., must beat back opposition to a bipartisan debt limit deal from his party's right flank. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Debt limit deal explained

By David Lerman, Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 30, 2023 at 12:58pm
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, center, Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar and Minority Whip Katherine M. Clark conduct a news conference on the debt ceiling in the Capitol on May 23, 2023.

Bipartisan debt limit package unveiled as clock ticks toward ‘x date’

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted May 28, 2023 at 9:34pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., had been in talks for days with President Joe Biden regarding the debt limit.

Bipartisan deal reached to raise debt limit, cap appropriations

By Paul M. Krawzak, Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted May 27, 2023 at 8:41pm, Updated at 11:41pm