CQ Roll Call Policy and Politics

CQ Roll Call Policy and Politics


Budget Deal:Fragile Truce?

October 28, 2015

A two-year agreement to lift budget caps and raise the government’s debt ceiling is speeding through Congress in time to beat a deadline for raising the government’s borrowing authority. But it won’t end bitter ideological fights over government spending and fiscal issues. CQ's Adriel Bettelheim and Jane Norman explain.