very good monday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. new this morning, the white house now circulating a memo trying to convince president biden s own party to support the bipartisan infrastructure deal and his $3.5 billion budget deal, critical to his agenda. a democratic congresswoman calling this a, quote, week from hell as lawmakers face key votes on both bills as well as, don t forget, the looming debt ceiling debate deadline. a big week for democrats, possibly make or break. today we ll see a test vote in the senate on the debt limit as well as government funding, congress working to stave off a shutdown. if borrowing is not increased by friday this week, the u.s. could default on its debt, spelling disaster for millions of americans. congress has been up to the break many times before and has not gone over it. we were supposed to see a house vote on infrastructure today, but speaker pelosi forced to delay that until thursday, giving her a few deays to
everybody. we begin with the critical week ahead for congress and for president biden s agenda, like the entire thing. and millions of americans lives that will be affected by what happens. house speaker nancy pelosi delaying a planned vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill, pushing that vote now to thursday. she s working to unite moderate and progressive democrats within the party around that bill and the president s much bigger, broader $3.5 trillion spending bill. pelosi says the next few days will be, quite, a time of intensity. that is one way to put it. the infrastructure vote now scheduled to come just hours before a possible government shutdown and the potential of the default on america s debt. if the congress decides to not pay america s bills, that s also not far off. cnn s lauren fox is live on capitol hill following the latest here. lauren, lay out the state of play and the stakes of this week. well, i think the things to watch today are twofold. there is a
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