Sinopsis
CQs Budget Editor Jane Norman leads a weekly conversation on how lawmakers in Congress are spending taxpayers' money and how their actions impact among other areas federal agencies, safety net programs and the presidents agenda.
Episodios
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Spending Deal at Mercy of Trump Budget, Debt Limit and Border Money
04/03/2019 Duración: 16minPresident Donald Trump's fiscal 2020 budget request, due out next week, is likely to skirt a defense spending cap to boost the military while proposing deep cuts to nondefense programs. CQ's Paul M. Krawzak explains how the White House blueprint is sure to trigger a new showdown over spending limits, along with the need to increase the debt limit and the continuing battle over border wall funds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Breaking a Trust to Build the Wall
25/02/2019 Duración: 15minCQ's award-winning defense reporter John M. Donnelly revealed that a Pentagon fund that President Donald Trump wants to use to pay for his wall is nearly depleted, forcing him to look elsewhere in the Pentagon budget for the money. Trump appears poised to break tradition and bypass Congress in this money transfer, and Donnelly says that "would tear a hole in the fabric of cooperation between the White House and the Congress.'' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Trump Ignites New Budget Fights by Targeting Pentagon Programs
19/02/2019 Duración: 11minCQ defense reporter John M. Donnelly spells out how President Donald Trump's emergency action to raid Pentagon accounts to pay for a border wall could affect military facilities and programs already stretched thin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Down to the Wire Amid Setback in Government Funding Talks
11/02/2019 Duración: 11minA new snag over immigrant detention policy has thrown a monkey wrench into border security negotiations, as lawmakers look to prevent another government shutdown. CQ appropriations reporter Kellie Mejdrich explains what both sides are seeking and how the Trump administration is softening its demand on border wall funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Congress' Border Wall Funding Emergency
04/02/2019 Duración: 18minCongressional negotiators are working to reach bipartisan agreement on a Homeland Security spending bill that can fend off another shutdown and thwart President Donald Trump's threat of declaring a national emergency, CQ appropriations reporter Kellie Mejdrich tells co-host Jennifer Shutt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Congress Looks to Avert Another Shutdown
28/01/2019 Duración: 16minCQ budget and appropriations reporters Kellie Mejdrich and Jennifer Shutt unpack what could happen in the next three weeks as lawmakers and the White House wrestle with how to prevent another government shutdown in three weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Shutdown Could Cost Federal Workers Second Paycheck
22/01/2019 Duración: 11minThe House and Senate are poised to consider legislation that could end the partial government shutdown — if the competing bills had any chance of passing both chambers, explains CQ budget and appropriations reporter Kellie Mejdrich. Listen for the latest details on how lawmakers are greeting President Donald Trump's immigration-related offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Assessing the Bleak Options for Ending the Shutdown
14/01/2019 Duración: 14minAs the longest shutdown in modern history enters its fourth week, CQ's fiscal policy reporter Doug Sword assesses the options for ending the spending impasse. But none appear promising, as President Donald Trump rejected the latest proposals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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How Shutdown Will Sting Across the Board
07/01/2019 Duración: 16minWithin days of the government shutdown setting a record, federal agencies, employees and the general public will begin to feel the pain, says CQ budget and appropriations reporter Kellie Mejdrich. She also gives the latest developments in what is turning out to be a prolonged political battle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hell Week Amid Shutdown Fears
17/12/2018 Duración: 12minThere is no plan at the moment to prevent a partial government shutdown at the end of the week over President Donald Trump's insistence for $5 billion for a border wall, explains CQ budget reporter Jennifer Shutt. She games out what the options are to fund the government as lawmakers try to guess Trump's next steps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Trump's Christmas Wish List: Billions for Wildfire Suppression, Unaccompanied Children
10/12/2018 Duración: 14minJust when lawmakers thought they had breathing room to hammer out a year-end spending deal, President Donald Trump drops a request for an extra $4.76 billion, technically referred to as anomalies. CQ's budget and appropriations team, Kellie Mejdrich and Paul M. Krawzak explain what's at stake for government spending with co-host Jennifer Shutt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Spending Talks About to Hit a Wall, New Tax Plan in Doubt
03/12/2018 Duración: 16minLawmakers are racing against the clock to pass seven more spending bills, but their efforts are likely to be a struggle amid President Trump's insistence for $5 billion for the border wall that Democrats don't want to give him, says CQ budget editor Peter Cohn. And CQ tax writer Doug Sword brings us up to date with the latest GOP effort to pass new tax legislation that would renew some tax breaks while making corrections to last year's massive tax overhaul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Tax Cuts to Be Revisited, Vows Sen. Van Hollen
28/11/2018 Duración: 33minThis is a special edition podcast to bring you an interview with a key lawmaker, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, about how Democrats will respond to Republican tax cuts. "When it comes to the tax breaks for millionaires that will definitely be revisited,'' the Maryland Democrat tells CQ's budget and tax editor Peter Cohn. Van Hollen spoke to Cohn Tuesday a day after House Republicans unveiled a new tax package. The legislation would extend two dozen expired tax breaks, revamp the IRS and offer corrections to last year’s tax code overhaul, among other things. In a wide-ranging interview, Van Hollen discussed how Democrats will respond to the new tax proposal, how his party may push to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns, the prospects for an infrastructure spending package, the impact of the midterm elections and the possibilities for bipartisan cooperation. He spoke at a Roll Call Live Election Impact forum hosted by FiscalNote, CQ’s parent company. Van Hollen is one of the Democratic party’s best utility
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Mueller Probe, Wall Funding Could Trip Up Spending Plan
28/11/2018 Duración: 12minWith just eight legislative days remaining to avoid a partial government shutdown, lawmakers will confront a slew of prickly issues, including Robert S. Mueller III's Russia investigation, in their government spending talks, says CQ's senior budget reporter Paul M. Krawzak. He games out what might happen to the seven pending bills that need to pass by Dec. 7. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Surprise Roadblock Could Sideline Budget Overhaul Panel
19/11/2018 Duración: 09minThe co-chairwoman of the select committee tasked with overhauling the budget process threw her colleagues a curveball that could derail plans to report out a bill by the Nov. 30 deadline, CQ's senior budget reporter Paul Krawzak tells host Jennifer Shutt. Rep. Nita M. Lowey, D-N.Y., pushed to delay the markup until an agreement is reached between Senate leaders on floor consideration. Democrats are worried about how the bipartisan proposal could be changed by potential amendments in the Senate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Democrat to Reshape Priorities on Spending Panel
12/11/2018 Duración: 12minDemocratic Rep. Nita M. Lowey of New York is expected to lead the powerful House appropriations panel in the new Congress and she already has a list of priorities she will be pursuing. CQ's budget and appropriations reporter Kellie Mejdrich gives us a rundown of what those are and where Lowey may find common ground or clash with the Trump administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Committee Charged With Overhauling Budget Process Nears Deadline
05/11/2018 Duración: 15minA 16-member bipartisan, bicameral select committee is on the verge of proposing changes to the annual budget and appropriations process, including moving the budget resolution from an annual to a biennial schedule. CQ's Jennifer Shutt talks about the select committee's progress with Mike Veselik, manager of the Federal Budget Process Reform Project at Convergence, and Building a Better Budget Process stakeholder Matt Owens, who testified in front of the panel earlier this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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How Trump's Imagined Tax Cut Could Work
29/10/2018 Duración: 14minPresident Donald Trump wants another tax cut for the middle class, a proposal that administration officials and members of Congress are now scrambling to make happen. CQ budget and appropriations editor Peter Cohn explains the options available and their consequences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Despite the Rhetoric, Congress is Unlikely to Tackle Deficit, Entitlements
22/10/2018 Duración: 15minThe rising deficit, the president's request for 5% in budget cuts and discussions of needing to trim Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security set off a storm of debate just three weeks before the midterms. Roll Call's senior Senate reporter Niels Lesniewski, senior CQ budget reporter Paul M. Krawzak and co-host Jennifer Shutt explain why Congress is unlikely to deal with any of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Behind the Interest Rate Increases
15/10/2018 Duración: 13minStock market losses and interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve may be making some people jittery especially President Donald Trump. But none of it is abnormal, explains CQ's numbers guru, budget and appropriations editor Peter Cohn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices