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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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted May 27, 2023 at 8:41pm, Updated at 11:41pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy is seen after talking with reporters about the debt ceiling negotiations outside the Capitol on Thursday.

Debt limit deal appears close as negotiators keep working

By Lindsey McPherson and Paul M. Krawzak and Laura Weiss and Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted May 26, 2023 at 2:42pm, Updated at 7:19pm
Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., arrives at the Capitol during the last votes of the week on Thursday.

Parties moving closer on debt ceiling deal as talks drag on

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley and Lindsey McPherson and Paul M. Krawzak and Caitlin Reilly
Posted May 25, 2023 at 2:05pm, Updated at 11:24pm
Top Ways and Means Democrat Richard E. Neal of Massachusetts says he doesn't want to prejudge the outcome of talks.

Tighter TANF requirements may be ripe for debt limit accord

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted May 18, 2023 at 4:57pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy conducts a vote on the House floor on May 11.

Parties scramble for deal on debt limit, budget

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted May 15, 2023 at 7:03pm
Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip L. Swagel, testifying before the House Budget Committee.

CBO sees ‘significant risk’ of debt limit breach before June 15

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted May 12, 2023 at 11:48am
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) speaks during a convocation at Liberty University's Vines Center in Lynchburg, Va., on April 14.

Trump’s Hill backers often voted like DeSantis on entitlements

By Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman
Posted May 9, 2023 at 5:30am
President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., participate in the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon in the Rayburn Room of the Capitol on March 17, 2023.

Debt limit veterans look for hopeful signs in Tuesday’s meeting

By Laura Weiss and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted May 8, 2023 at 6:24pm
Grover Norquist says the tax impact of the debt limit bill is murkier than is usually the case because the estimated cost of the energy tax credits has been rising, and some of the credits are refundable or transferable.

Tax pledge’s father bestows blessing on GOP debt limit package

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted May 3, 2023 at 5:01pm
Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., co-chair of Main Street Caucus in her Rayburn Building office on March 22, 2023.

GOP debt limit plans begin to take shape in House

By Lindsey McPherson and Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 13, 2023 at 5:10pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pressed President Joe Biden to resume debt limit talks while pushing for $4 trillion in deficit reduction over a decade.

Debt limit pressure tactics

By David Lerman and Lindsey McPherson and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted March 31, 2023 at 2:21pm
White House budget director Shalanda Young defended the president’s fiscal 2024 budget before the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday.

GOP’s budget attack

By David Lerman and Peter Cohn and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted March 17, 2023 at 3:31pm
Biden sent a $6.9 trillion budget to Congress on Thursday that would increase increases spending by $1.9 trillion over a decade and revenues by $4.7 trillion.

White House blueprint would raise taxes, boost spending

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted March 9, 2023 at 1:00pm
Sen. Elizabeth Warren questions Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Tuesday.

Debt limit action needed by mid-August, analysts warn

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted March 7, 2023 at 2:57pm, Updated at 4:51pm
Senate Budget Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said he may not draft a budget resolution this year.

Preparing for budget release

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted March 3, 2023 at 2:49pm
Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., is among those who've had earmarked projects called out by GOP.

House GOP mulls putting ‘woke’ earmarks on chopping block

By Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted February 27, 2023 at 5:30am
Chuck Kieffer worked at the White House budget office before coming to Capitol Hill in 2001.

Top appropriations aide and ‘institutionalist’ Kieffer to retire

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted February 22, 2023 at 5:30am
Former Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., is seen during a ceremony to name rooms on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol after her and Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine., on Wednesday, June 8, 2022.

Mikulski: ‘Long before Google there was Chuck Kieffer’

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted February 22, 2023 at 5:30am
Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip L. Swagel says policymakers should start to deal with long-term fiscal imbalances.

CBO: Debt limit to hit as soon as July, budget picture worsens

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted February 15, 2023 at 2:48pm
DeLauro conducts a House Appropriations Committee markup on June 29, 2021.

DeLauro’s Appropriations panel staff director heads downtown

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted February 13, 2023 at 5:18pm
House Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, center, promises to offer "examples" of spending cuts that could be part of a debt limit deal.

Battle lines drawn

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted February 10, 2023 at 1:43pm
Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, gains new clout this year as chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee.

Appropriations power shifts

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted February 3, 2023 at 6:09pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is seen in the Capitol on Friday, Jan. 27, 2023.

McCarthy, Biden to meet in hopes of avoiding debt limit debacle

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted February 1, 2023 at 8:27am
President Joe Biden will meet with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., at the White House on Wednesday.

White House budget set for early March delivery

By Paul M. Krawzak and Peter Cohn
Posted January 31, 2023 at 2:34pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.,is pushing for spending cuts as a price for raising the debt limit.

Debt limit strategy

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted January 27, 2023 at 2:34pm
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., right, and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., conduct a news conference after a meeting of the House Republican Conference at the Republican National Committee on Wednesday.

House GOP considering ‘clean’ short-term debt limit suspension

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted January 25, 2023 at 7:31pm
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is pushing for a bipartisan deal to raise the debt limit.

Two fiscal brawls ahead

By David Lerman and Lindsey McPherson and Paul M. Krawzak and Caroline Coudriet
Posted January 20, 2023 at 2:39pm
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen prepares to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee on June 8, 2022.

Treasury launches ‘extraordinary measures’ to delay debt limit

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted January 19, 2023 at 10:35am