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Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is pushing for a two-pronged reconciliation process to pass border security and other spending and then tax cuts next year.

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Big tax-cut and spending agenda

CQ Budget, Episode No. 335

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted December 9, 2024 at 3:23pm

Tesla founder Elon Musk co-chairs a new Department of Government Efficiency that promises to slash federal spending and regulations.

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The meaning of DOGE

By David Lerman and Peter Cohn
Posted December 2, 2024 at 3:43pm
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will head a new House subcommittee designed to help curb federal spending.

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Disaster aid scrubbing

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted November 22, 2024 at 2:44pm
President-elect Donald Trump has yet to tip his hand on whether he wants Congress to pass an omnibus spending package this year. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

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Funding strategy unresolved

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted November 12, 2024 at 4:57pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has ruled out a Christmas omnibus spending package as lawmakers brace for a difficult lame-duck session.

Post-election endgame

By David Lerman and Peter Cohn
Posted September 30, 2024 at 3:14pm
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
House GOP leaders are struggling to settle on a strategy for passing a funding extension that could muster a majority vote.

Long wait for a funding plan

By Aidan Quigley, Peter Cohn and David Lerman
Posted September 16, 2024 at 3:52pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is pushing a voting restriction measure opposed by Democrats as he struggles to pass a six-month funding extension.

Politics of stopgap spending

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted September 9, 2024 at 2:22pm
Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, and ranking member Susan Collins, R-Maine, agreed to shelve the Homeland Security bill until the fall.

Spending bill punts

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Valerie Yurk
Posted July 29, 2024 at 6:46pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., pulled two spending bills that had been slated for floor votes this week as the appropriations process slows to a crawl.

Appropriations derailed

By David Lerman and Peter Cohn
Posted July 22, 2024 at 3:27pm