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deal to avoid them. this he were never supposed to happen. the results of a deal to end a debt ceiling debacle in 2011. next while congress takes a two-week break for easter and passover, funding for the federal government will expire. that means a shut-down if congress doesn t act in time. and april 15th, thanks to the no budget, no pay act, the house and senate must pass a senate or they stop getting paychecks and on may 18th, the current debt ceiling suspension ends. with no deal even the threat of the u.s. defaulting could again result in the downgrade of america s credit rating. the consequences for you could be dire. your borrowing costs would likely rise along with your taxes. you could expect cuts to the programs and government services you rely on. jon king is cnn s national correspondent. jon, president obama says he wants a big deal on budgets and debt. he won the battle for public opinion. he won a second term while congressional approval continues to be super low
we are going begin with a sprint to the finish line. the last major hurdle in the way. the october jobs report will be released in three and a half hours. both the obama and romney campaign hope the numbers will help them in the race. it s too close to call right now. christine romans is going to have a look at it. christine? let s talk about what we are expecting in the final economic report before tuesday. in three and a half hours, we ll find out what happens for jobs and the unemployment rate. the expectation is the unemployment rate is 7.9%, picking up slightly with 125,000 jobs added in the month. the trend, though, is what is so important here, right? sometimes you get a little in the month. the trend is what s important. 7.8% was the unemployment rate when the president took office. last month, he s back to where he started. february, 2009, that s the stimulus. then the unemployment rate rise up to 10% in october, 2009 as the stimulus money was being deployed. stubb
plus 4:00 eastern, we ll go over fortune magazine s top 40 under 40 list. your $$$$$ starts right now. president obama on the road this week pushing his jobs plan but is he fighting for your job or campaigning for his own. welcome to your $$$$$. i m christine romans, ali velshi is off. chrystia freelander and economist stephen moore. the president traveling through battle grounds on a key trip, wants to push congress to pass every part of his jobs act piece by piece. what is this about? whose job is he looking for. my view is if he had really been serious about passing a jobs bill earlier this year, if he had moved to the middle he might have gotten something through congress. once he started talking about a big tax increase on the rich, there was no way republicans were going to go to that. i think this has become a polit debate, not what we can pass now. that s a problem when you have 4 million unemployed people. didn t they teach the white house there was going