This is cnn breaking news. Top of the new hour, thanks for staying with us. Im victor blackwell. And im alisyn camerota. Democrats announcing moments ago they will tie an increase in the Debt Limit to the government spending bill. This move sets up a looming show down with republicans. For more, lets bring in Manu Raju and Lauren Fox on capitol hill. Lauren, i want to start with you. Walk us through what this decision means and how it will work. Essentially democrats are daring republicans to vote against an increase in the Debt Ceiling. There of course is a looming deadline coming sometime in mid october to raise the Countrys Debt limit for what democrats say is money that they have already borrowed. With republicans, given all of the spending for coronavirus over the last year and a half, now, republicans have been saying over and over again that they are not going to join with democrats to actually increase that Debt Limit. Here democrats are saying if you want to keep the governmen
Clean things up with americas oldest ally. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Were keeping a close eye on the markets after the Do Jones Industrial Average closed nearly 615 points down today. Earlier today the market plunged more than 900 points after american investors were spooked by new concerns about chinas economy. But we begin with Breaking News in our health lead. Moments ago, the u. S. Dayleath l from coronavirus surpassed the total Death Toll during the 1918 flu pandemic. The u. S. Covid Death Toll is now 675,446 americans lost to the virus. A horrific milestone. But today we did get some positive news for families with elementary schoolaged children. Pfizer announced that a lower dose of its Covid19 Vaccine is safe and generates a robust Antibody Response for Kids Age 5 to 11. There are still some steps that need to be taken before the fdas expected Emergency Use Authorization is asserted in a matter of weeks. My hope is theyll move quickly because a lot of kids are gettin
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