together hoping to force the hand of at least ten republican senators. in just hours the house side will vote. what happens in this fight could determine what happens with the infrastructure package and president biden s $3.5 trillion budget package. the u.s. economy and the biden agenda in the balance. cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju joins us on the hill. manu, juries, walk us through the timeline for today. well, today the house democrats are going to move forward on that plan to keep the government open up until december. also extend the nation s borrowing limit through the november 22 mid terms, but there s a problem. they do not have the votes to get that out of the senate. today they plan to pass it and then in the senate the republicans say they have the votes to blog it. they want the democrats to move that debt limit increase, a very politically toxic vote on their own through a separate process, and that is leading to major questions about how this
The moment because they are skwubling internally over $1 billion they want to add to funding the israel security system known as the iron dome. some progressives are pushing back on that. trying to resolve that issue and once they do they hope to get it out of the house and we know what the fate will be in the sunday, the republicans will block it and figure out what plan b will be. the political stakes could not be higher for either party. who has leverage? remains to be seep. democrats are unclear on how they will respond once republicans do block this effort going forward. you mentioned. a number of major issues, roughly $5 trillion in new programs and spending as well as taxes all hang in the balance as well. next monday the democratic leadership has set a deathline to have the house vote on september 27th on that $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan that passed the senate last month but there s a problem. progressives are threatening to sink that plan.
If that larger democratic-only approach to deal with the rest spending and expand the social safety net has not passed congress by that point and there s no chance it will pass congress by that point but multiple liberals told me over the last day or so that it makes sense to slow down potentially thwart that bipartisan infrastructure bill if they don t get that larger package. listen. democrats think you re bluffing on this and you will fall in line. they can take that bet if they want. i can i can say that they are bluffing on how many republicans are going to go with us, but fine they had that number of republicans to go on the bipartisan bill, we would still have enough votes to defeat it. progress you haves in the house are threatening to sink the infrastructure bill if the reconciliation bill isn t passed in both chambers by next monday. is that the right approach? we had an agreement from the beginning and that was there might be one package. it might take multiple vot
Evictions. and ice cream called change is brewing mixed cold brewed coffee and fudge swirls and brownies. republicans might even sneak a peek of that. aprila cabrera picks up our coverage right now. hello. thanks for joining us. i m ana cabrera in new york. today a bitter showdown in congress. if dysfunction triumphs over bipartisanship a dual catastrophe could hit the u.s. economy and send shock waves around the globe and hit your wallet. congress will vote on funding the federal government. if it fails, the government shuts down, and if congress doesn t raise the limit on federal borrowing america could run out of cash and default for the first time in u.s. history. lawmakers will have one chance to avert both disasters because democrats tied the two measures
Together hoping to force the hand of at least ten republican senators. in just hours the house side will vote. what happens in this fight could determine what happens with the infrastructure package and president biden s $3.5 trillion budget package. the u.s. economy and the biden agenda in the balance. cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju joins us on the hill. manu, juries, walk us through the timeline for today. well, today the house democrats are going to move forward on that plan to keep the government open up until december. also extend the nation s borrowing limit through the november 22 mid terms, but there s a problem. they do not have the votes to get that out of the senate. today they plan to pass it and then in the senate the republicans say they have the votes to blog it. they want the democrats to move that debt limit increase, a very politically toxic vote on their own through a separate process, and that is leading to major questions about how this gets reso