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push progressives to support the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal passed by the senate. cnn s lauren fox joining us live now from capitol hill. we re a week away from the deadline to fund the government. the president as we know working frantically to save his economic agenda and that s the big question, what is that plan b? reporter: well, let s break it down. there is really two crucial dates. like you said, it is one week until the government runs out of funding and that is the must pass legislation that democrats are still grappling with, how to get through the house and the senate. now, it is already passed the house of representatives, but it included an increase in the debt ceiling. republicans in the senate saying they are not going to vote to support that. so if democrats want to make sure that this government stays funded, what they have to do is likely strip out the debt ceiling increase. and as we know, the treasury department has made clear that ....
agreement on a framework that will pay for any final negotiated agreement, so the revenue side of this we have an agreement on, okay? thank you. the framework, an agreement of a framework. that sounds like a big deal, right? but there are a lot of missing pieces. no specifics yet, for example, on just what tax hike democrats have agreed to support and even more important, no agreement yet on how much money democrats need to raise meaning no agreement yet on the final price tag for that big democratic plan. let s get straight up to our chief congressional correspondent manu raju. manu, they make this announcement out to be a big deal, but a lot of questions. reporter: there are a lot of questions and not a lot of clarity. let s be clear. members have not signed off on this in the rank and file. even some of the key chairmen of the committees are still in the dark about what exactly this means and what this means is an agreement about some of the options that they cou ....
strong. hospitalizations are dropping, but defense is dragging. the pace of vaccinations now down 35% from earlier this month. so where does all this leave us? let s begin with cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. let s just start with what s happening right now. the cdc meeting under way. what happens today and then what s next? well, we know that the vaccine s beefrpts have been emergency use authorized by the fda. now the cdc has to officially recommend them, make them part of the vaccine schedule. anyone who has kids knows about vaccine schedules and this would become part of the schedule as well and some specifics as well, ana. you talk about people at high risk for severe covid but that could be a vague term to some people. what does that mean exactly? what are the conditions? so who all specifically will this booster be recommended for? one thing i ll tell you in terms of the timing. if you go back six months ago from now, because they are saying t ....
welcome to a brand new hour. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. currently at stake, that $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and that $3.2 trillion safety net bill. the democrats say they and the white house have agreed to a framework to pay for the massive reconciliation package, but it s unclear what that means and how they plan to raise the funds. first they have to avoid a government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling. they have one week to do that. if they don t the country will default on the national debt for the first time. you have a vote about details. tell us about it. reporter: the house budget committee will meet on saturday to take up that massive $3.5 trillion plan to expand the social safety net. this is not the final deal because they are still negotiating the final deal, but the democratic leadership wants to try to make it clear that they are moving forward on this process ahead of a separate vote, a key vote that s hap ....
rio told me what they re doing is basically releasing any family units and any women who are currently claiming to be pregnant. you can see impact that it s having on the camp here. take a live look at the scene here. we ve told just about 5,000 people are left over in this camp right now. that is significantly decreased from what it was on saturday, about 15,000. you still see a lot of people milling about, they ve built their make hadshift structures waiting in the sun, the heat, finding out if they have a chance of being released into the united states. you can take a look at our live drown head. we ve been showing you this for the past several days. the camp is still fairly large but you can see parts of it are starting to be cleared out becauses the feds want to get to the optics of this so they re trying to clear it as fast as possible. we want to show you what some of those mass releases look like. we were in del lio earlier today, we went to an ngo, fawn had gov ....