find another path ahead. one thing that i think is very clear here at the white house is that not lifting the debt ceiling is not an option and i think republicans are very, very cognizant of that. now at the same time, president biden is also going to be continuing to focus on trying to bridge the divides within the democratic caucus on the bipartisan infrastructure bill as well as the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package, that's why we'll see him tomorrow heading out to michigan to try and rally support for this agenda. we've seen the president focus on a lot of these behind the scenes negotiations over the last week, now i think we're going to see more public pressure from him using the power of the bully pulpit to try to get democrats on board and get to a place where they can pass these two bills. >> all right, lauryn fox on the hill, republicans seem pretty comfortable letting the democrats burn themselves on the debt limit. you have some democrats saying well, mitch mcconnell will blink on this. he codoesn't want to put us ove