A critical deadline for lawmakers and the country.

Things are looking good, very optimistic.

In Washington, plenty of hope.

I thought we made progress last night.

We got to make more progress now.

But almost no time left.

Failure to reach a dead deal is setting off a alarm on Wall Street

and in density on the house floor.

Stop holding our nation's economy on stage.

It's dangerous. It's unconscionable.

My message to my Republican colleagues is, hold the line.

Can the sharply divided Congress compromise

when the economy itself is at stake?

Next.

This is Washington Week.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

I'm Lisa Desjardins.

The United States, the world's largest economy,

is days away from an unprecedented debt default

and a toxic ripple effect across the government.

Because President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

cannot agree on how to raise the nation's borrowing limit

...