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Members of the House Freedom Caucus conduct a news conference to say they will not support the DHS funding bill in its current form, in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Friday.

House GOP rejects bipartisan Senate bill to end DHS shutdown

By Valerie Yurk, Aris Folley and Aidan Quigley
Posted March 27, 2026 at 1:53pm
Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to the cameras as he arrives for a Senate Budget Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 10.

Reconciliation bill preparations get underway despite doubts

By Aris Folley, Savannah Behrmann and Aidan Quigley
Posted March 25, 2026 at 7:57pm
Thune said senators will have to "stare at each other" more before a deal is reached. (Bill Clark/ CQ Roll Call)

DHS funding negotiations turn to stalemate in Senate

By Aris Folley, Savannah Behrmann and Aidan Quigley
Posted March 25, 2026 at 6:12pm
Ohio Sen. Jon Husted, seen here leaving the Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting in the Capitol last November, has won a plum committee post as he fights to retain his Senate seat.

Husted named to succeed Mullin on Senate Appropriations panel

By Aidan Quigley and Aris Folley
Posted March 25, 2026 at 6:07pm
The expected request by President Donald Trump, seen on March 17, for a 50 percent defense spending increase promises to complicate fiscal 2027 appropriations. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Fiscal 2027 budget outlook

By Aidan Quigley, Aris Folley and David Lerman
Posted March 23, 2026 at 4:25pm
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., leaves the Capitol after President Donald Trump selected him to be Homeland Security secretary on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Mullin moving to Cabinet would set off Appropriations shuffle

By Aidan Quigley
Posted March 6, 2026 at 10:50am
President Donald Trump applauds for a guest during his State of the Union address on Feb. 24.

White House targets week of March 30 for budget release

By Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted March 4, 2026 at 4:59pm
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., talks with reporters in the Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Labor-HHS-Education earmarks are back in House, with limits

By Aidan Quigley
Posted February 25, 2026 at 12:56pm, Updated at 4:09pm
The Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington.

Disaster relief fund threatened as partial shutdown takes hold

By Aidan Quigley
Posted February 20, 2026 at 6:00am
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer is locked in another shutdown battle as Democrats push for an immigration enforcement overhaul.

Immigration enforcement standoff

By Aidan Quigley, Savannah Behrmann and David Lerman
Posted February 17, 2026 at 5:09pm
Senate Appropriations Committee ranking member Patty Murray, D-Wash., right, was the Senate's top earmarker in fiscal 2026, while Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, ranked fourth.

Earmarks flood spending bills after a year’s hiatus

By Aidan Quigley
Posted February 17, 2026 at 12:30pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks during Senate Republicans’ news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., stands to his right.

Time for ‘Plan B’ as DHS talks drag ahead of funding deadline

By Aidan Quigley and Savannah Behrmann
Posted February 11, 2026 at 8:33pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, left, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are demanding an overhaul of immigration enforcement as the price for Homeland Security funding.

Homeland Security spending spat

By Aidan Quigley, Chris Johnson and Valerie Yurk
Posted February 9, 2026 at 4:29pm
Alabama Sen. Katie Britt leaves the Senate Republican lunch meeting in the Capitol on Nov. 19, 2025. Britt has the most earmarks at stake in the Homeland Security bill.

FEMA earmarks threatened by immigration funding standoff

By Aidan Quigley and Aris Folley
Posted February 9, 2026 at 12:42pm
Chairman Mark Amodei attends a House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 6, 2025.

Mark Amodei, a senior GOP appropriator, to retire at end of term

By Aidan Quigley
Posted February 6, 2026 at 3:35pm
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., said she won't vote for a rule on a $1.2 trillion spending package without including legislation on voter ID requirements.

Struggle for votes to end shutdown

By Aidan Quigley, Aris Folley and David Lerman
Posted February 2, 2026 at 3:32pm
Johnson has a one-vote buffer to advance the spending bill over Democratic opposition.

House leaders face dicey math to clear major spending package

By Aidan Quigley
Posted February 2, 2026 at 3:14pm
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham talks with reporters in the Dirksen building on Dec. 9. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Graham outlines demands as clock ticks on spending package

By Aidan Quigley and Jacob Fulton
Posted January 30, 2026 at 3:35pm
Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., left, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., are seen in the Capitol as the Senate took a procedural vote on a government funding package on Thursday.

Senate spending deal runs into ‘hotline’ headwinds

By Jacob Fulton, Aidan Quigley and Aris Folley
Posted January 29, 2026 at 5:10pm, Updated at 11:49pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., left, and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., conduct a news conference in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026.

Senate talks move in direction of splitting off DHS funding bill

By Aidan Quigley and Savannah Behrmann
Posted January 29, 2026 at 12:02pm
Senate Appropriations ranking Democrat Patty Murray of Washington supported the Homeland Security bill until the fatal shooting by a Border Patrol agent last week.

Immigration funding impasse

By Aidan Quigley, Jacob Fulton and David Lerman
Posted January 27, 2026 at 2:31pm
House National Security-State Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., said the bill would restore “fiscal sanity” to the agencies covered under it. 

House passes second spending package with more bills in pipeline

By Aidan Quigley, Aris Folley and Jacob Fulton
Posted January 14, 2026 at 7:11pm, Updated at 8:35pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said appropriations and the health insurance battle are now on "separate tracks."

Appropriators get busy

By Aidan Quigley, Aris Folley and David Lerman
Posted January 6, 2026 at 3:22pm
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick is leading some GOP moderates in a push for a short-term extension of health insurance subsidies.

Last chance for the year

By Sandhya Raman, Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted December 15, 2025 at 2:29pm
Rep. Henry Cuellar, seen here in May, is now one step closer to regaining his senior subcommittee post.

Cuellar wins a key nod to regain a top House Appropriations post

By Aris Folley and Aidan Quigley
Posted December 12, 2025 at 3:39pm
A compromise defense authorization bill calls for a higher defense spending level than President Donald Trump requested, although it’s less than the Senate wants.

Defense spending uptick

By John M. Donnelly, Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted December 8, 2025 at 2:56pm
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., is pushing for a smaller-sized spending package than what his Senate counterparts are considering.

Two months to go

By Aris Folley and Aidan Quigley
Posted December 1, 2025 at 6:16pm
Rep. Lloyd K. Smucker is seeking more tax breaks in a second reconciliation bill.

Smucker enters Budget Committee race as odds-on favorite

By Aidan Quigley
Posted November 25, 2025 at 6:30am, Updated at 6:30am
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., is pushing for a smaller-sized Energy-Water bill. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Senate appropriators aim to unveil unreleased spending bills

By Jacob Fulton, Aris Folley and Aidan Quigley
Posted November 21, 2025 at 3:36pm
House Appropriations top Democrat Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said the size of the next spending package remains undetermined.

Little sign of spending progress as top appropriators meet

By Aidan Quigley
Posted November 20, 2025 at 4:38pm
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, at left, and ranking Democrat Patty Murray of Washington will meet with their House counterparts to map strategy.

Top four appropriators set to meet on spending package

By Aidan Quigley and Aris Folley
Posted November 19, 2025 at 5:35pm
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
Senate Majority Leader John Thune talks with reporters on Monday.

Major spending package planned for Senate floor faces doubts

By Aidan Quigley and Aris Folley
Posted November 14, 2025 at 5:45pm
A Delta Airlines Boeing 757-200 plane passes by the Capitol dome in Washington as it comes in for a landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Sunday.

Senate passes spending package in key step to end shutdown

By Aris Folley and Aidan Quigley
Posted November 10, 2025 at 9:29pm
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
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
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., seen here on Oct. 23, is trying to broker a bipartisan compromise to pay federal workers during the shutdown.

Shutdown pain grows as November nears

By Aidan Quigley, Aris Folley and Jacob Fulton
Posted October 27, 2025 at 4:35pm
House Appropriations Committee Tom Cole, R-Okla., left, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., conduct a news conference in the U.S. Capitol on the eighth day of the government shutdown on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025.

Appropriations chairman bullish on full-year spending bills after shutdown

By Aidan Quigley
Posted October 27, 2025 at 12:00pm
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
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
Speaker Mike Johnson holds up a chart during a news conference with Senate Majority Leader John Thune on the government shutdown in the Capitol on Friday.

Mass firings begin as White House weighs keeping troops paid

By Aidan Quigley and Aris Folley
Posted October 10, 2025 at 5:16pm
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
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
Senate Majority Leader John Thune holds a news conference following Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Partial government shutdown begins

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 30, 2025 at 7:37pm, Updated October 1, 2025 at 12:07am
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
President Donald Trump prepares to greet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House before a meeting with European leaders on Aug. 18.

Trump to meet with Democratic leaders ahead of shutdown deadline

By John T. Bennett and Aidan Quigley
Posted September 22, 2025 at 5:44pm, Updated at 6:54pm
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., stops to speak to reporters in the Senate subway in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Temporary spending bill passes House, likely to stall in Senate

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 19, 2025 at 11:06am
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 conducts a news conference in the Capitol after a House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday.

Interim spending bill set to reach floor amid shaky vote count

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 16, 2025 at 1:53pm, Updated at 7:13pm
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
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
People participate in a rally outside NPR headquarters in Washington on March 26 to call on Congress to protect funding for public broadcasters, the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down this fall

By Aidan Quigley
Posted August 1, 2025 at 3:37pm
Reps. Steve Womack, R-Ark., and Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., talk before the start of a House Appropriations Committee markup on July 10, 2024.

Republicans, appropriators dominate House earmarks

By Aidan Quigley and Ryan Kelly
Posted July 31, 2025 at 2:45pm
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
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, seen in the Capitol on July 9, filed cloture Thursday on a motion to proceed to the House-passed Military Construction-VA spending bill. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Senate GOP pushes spending bills as Democratic anger builds

By Aidan Quigley
Posted July 17, 2025 at 7:26pm
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, pictured wielding his gavel in June, said the bills’ funding levels are below current spending but surpass the president’s request.

GOP spending bills run into intraparty friction in House

By Aidan Quigley
Posted July 15, 2025 at 5:38pm, Updated at 8:26pm
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
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
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
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
President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain, R-Mich., talk with reporters before a House Republican Conference meeting on the budget reconciliation bill in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Trump doesn’t satisfy GOP holdouts as budget bill talks drag on

By Caitlin Reilly, Lia DeGroot, Jessie Hellmann and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 20, 2025 at 2:16pm
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., warned that the Trump administration would have its way with the Army Corps of Engineers budget, at the expense of political foes. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Red states win, blue states lose in Army Corps spending plan

By Aidan Quigley
Posted May 19, 2025 at 1:43pm
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
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
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought's fingerprints are all over the austere blueprint released Friday.

‘Skinny’ White House budget leaves some Senate Republicans hungry for more

By Aidan Quigley
Posted May 2, 2025 at 1:23pm, Updated May 5, 2025 at 4:24pm
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., made a rare joint appearance with House leaders to show support for a full-year continuing resolution.

Fiscal hawks show a change of heart toward spending bills

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 16, 2025 at 5:00am
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
Former Rep. Robert K. Dornan, R-Calif., on right, marches with anti-abortion activists on Jan. 22, 1998, to mark the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

DC funding fix runs into abortion concerns in House

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 1, 2025 at 1:22pm
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
President Donald Trump, here with Speaker Mike Johnson on the House steps on March 12, is backing a funding fix for the District of Columbia budget. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Trump endorses Senate-passed DC budget fix

By Aidan Quigley and Andrew Menezes
Posted March 28, 2025 at 1:08pm
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., says the money wasn't needed anymore and therefore available for higher priorities.

Vanished earmarks in stopgap law pose challenge to local projects’ return

By Aidan Quigley
Posted March 24, 2025 at 2:46pm
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
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
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., talks with reporters after a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 25.

Long-term stopgap measure sets up partisan clash

By Aidan Quigley
Posted March 8, 2025 at 4:55pm
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
Speaker Mike Johnson conducts a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center after a House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday.

No clear path to House budget adoption amid GOP holdouts

By Aidan Quigley
Posted February 25, 2025 at 12:28pm, Updated at 4:25pm
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
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
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
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
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
Rep. James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., talks with reporters after a House Democratic Caucus meeting about then-President Joe Biden's candidacy at the Democratic National Committee on July 9, 2024.

Clyburn ready to elevate rural poverty issues on Appropriations

By Aidan Quigley
Posted February 3, 2025 at 1:59pm
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks during the Senate Democrats’ news conference on the Trump administration’s spending freeze on federal assistance on Tuesday.

White House rescinds sweeping order to pause federal aid

By Aidan Quigley
Posted January 29, 2025 at 2:21pm
“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
Elon Musk arrives at the Capitol Rotunda for the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 20. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO applauded when Trump spoke about planting the U.S. flag on Mars, though NASA funds could get caught up in a budget freeze.

White House sends aid freeze questionnaire to federal agencies

By Aidan Quigley
Posted January 28, 2025 at 10:04am
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump speak to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One en route to North Carolina and California on Friday.

Trump White House orders freeze on federal grants, loans

By Aidan Quigley
Posted January 27, 2025 at 9:47pm
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
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
Speaker Mike Johnson is congratulated by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, left, after Johnson won the speakership for the 119th Congress on Friday.

House GOP moves to block late-week suspension votes

By Aidan Quigley
Posted January 3, 2025 at 7:26pm, Updated January 4, 2025 at 9:10am
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