crossing the line. a pandemic-era border policy expires. our border is not open. but with washington deadlocked on how to fix it, what s the long term solution? i ll speak with homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas and house gop homeland security chairman mark green next and deal or no deal as the u.s. barrels closer to a debt ceiling deadline, president biden says the two sides are making progress. can they strike a deal in time? deputy treasury secretary wally ariyemo joins me ahead. plus primary problems, the president frames his re-election pitch around donald trump. sinister forces may believe they ll determine america s future. while ron desantis makes his case for change. if we focus the election on the past the democrats are going to beat us again. will voters agree? hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is wishing all of the moms out there a very happy mother s day. president biden is making his general elect
plan for what we would do in terms of fiscal policy in march where he talked by reducing the debt by $3 trillion and subsidizing oil and gas companies and the speaker wasn t able to get a plan through the house until the end of april. when he did that, the president called him and called congressional leaders together to have a conversation about what we do about fiscal policy and that s what we re doing today, but as we have that conversation there is no reason why we shouldn t raise the debt imwellity and prevent default in this country that would cost us millions of jobs. one of the questions is do we even have to get to the place of default for economic troubles to loom? certainly we saw that in 2011. the ceo of j.p. morgan chase, jamie dimon warns that even flirting with the default like what happened in 2011 could cause panic in the market. the speaker says he wants a deal this week. we heard some signs of hope from