Hello from CNN, I'm Taylor Galgano with the five things you need to know for Monday, September 25th.

As lawmakers struggle to reach a government funding deal, President Joe Biden plans to make one thing

clear this week.

Extremist House Republicans are to blame for a potential shutdown.

His administration plans to ramp up that kind of messaging,

with a number of officials said to discuss the ramifications of a shutdown.

Still, Republican Representative Tony Gonzalez

doesn't think the White House is completely off the hook.

Certainly House Republicans are to blame, Senate Democrats are to blame,

and the president is the blame, and there's real people, they're going to get hurt.

With six days to go until a shutdown, the path forward isn't clear.

House Republicans haven't been able to unify around a deal.

CNN's Lauren Fox explains their plan for the days ahead.

Right now, House Republicans have this gambit where they are going to try to pass

one individual appropriation bill at a time. These are year-long bills. They have four of them

teed up potentially to start voting as soon as Tuesday on procedural measures. But one thing to keep in mind is none of those bills

would actually avoid a government shutdown. That is because they are dead on arrival in

the Senate and because it just makes up a fraction of the bills that they would need to pass to fund the entire government.

The US government is restarting a program that allows Americans to get free home COVID-19 tests.

U.S. households can now order four free tests from COVID test.gov,

which has already shipped out more than $750,5 million across the country.

Here's CNN medical correspondent, Meg Terrell.

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