will federal lawmakers are preparing for an all-out fiscal battle a senate Democrats hold hearings this week to dissect the House GOP debt ceiling proposal legislation that will raise the federal debt limit and cut government spending in New Jersey senior U.S senator Bob Menendez is pushing back against what he says will result in devastating consequences for New Jersey families senior political correspondent David Cruz has the story the House Republicans just passed the only Bill in Washington that lifts the debt limit ends wasteful Washington spending and puts America back on the right economic path it was a close call but House Majority Republicans were able to pass a bill that increases the debt limit but ties it to deep spending cuts Democrats like Senator Bob Menendez are calling Draconian at best the president and Menendez say the debt ceiling should not be tied to budget cuts to the extent that Republicans have ideas I hope better ones than this one to think about how we deal with the budget that's when we get to a budget and there will be a budget debate and in that debate that's when you can go back and forth and say this is what we think should be done in terms of the national debt Democrats will say well they think should be done and at some point I assume there will be a compromise in order to get a budget done but not on the debt of the nation Menendez says a default would impact everything from unemployment to interest rates to the U.S standing as the world's currency of Reserve but that was almost secondary at The Helping Hands Learning Academy in Rahway today where 103 families get high quality preschool Services No Easy Task explained Anisha Galley executive director of Helping Hands which she points out at the beginning of Small Business Week is a small business after all students and staff ratios the equipment material and training necessary to operate a successful program forces us to operate on razor thin profit margins if any as a high quality rated Center the cost associated with operating far outpaces funding I am a single mother of three daughters and I have custody of my one and a half year old grandson so you can imagine that when I went to go put him in school I was paying twelve hundred dollars a month it affected me majorly I could not afford to pay my rent sometimes I was backing behind my bills and I'm being perfectly honest operators struggling to keep their doors open and working class parents desperate for help from public subsidies to help pay for high quality Care especially for infants and toddlers we have about a hundred and fifty thousand infants and toddlers in our state and yet we're only able the capacity only serves 68 000. and even that number even that big difference they're serving less and the main reason is they can't find teachers for the classrooms Senate Democrats have scheduled hearings on the GOP debt ceiling Bill they'll call it cruel and counterproductive Republicans will call Democratic spending priorities too expensive meanwhile Working Families will be left to worry about the prospect of meeting all the requirements of parenting kids during a critical period of development without any help I'm David Cruz NJ Spotlight news [Music]