- Texas Congressman MichaelCloud tells CBS News

his state is completelyoverrun by what's happening

at the border and says it's time

the Biden administrationtakes it seriously.

- Five of the 13 counties I represented

have already declared a disaster.

- [Abigail] CBN News joined Cloud

on a tour of the border last June.

Cloud says since then thingshave only gotten worse.

- The federal governmentis not cooperating

with local agencies,

so it's our hospitals thatare left to deal with it,

it's our schools that areleft to try to figure out

how to deal with the situation.

There's new diseases thathave been virtually eradicated

from the US for quite some time

that we're now havingto deal with once again.

And so this is a very serious situation.

- [Abigail] Cloud claimsit's complete lawlessness

at the border.

- You look at what'shappening at the border,

and it's just no holds barred,virtually open borders.

The effort to intentionallyoverwhelm our system

so that it collapses is really tragic

coming from this Biden administration.

- [Abigail] While the White House says

they have the situation under control.

- People are not coming into the country

through legal methods.

And again, our policyprocess has continued to be

the same with Haiti asit is for anybody coming

for the regular migrationacross our border.

- [Abigail] Key parts ofPresident Biden's agenda

are in jeopardy, even after progressive

and moderate Democratsannounced a framework agreement

over what could be a $3.5 trillion

budget reconciliation bill.

- A big part of whatwe're talking about here,

which is not a secret to all of you,

are the size of the package, right?

There are a range ofdifferent viewpoints on that.

That's part of what the discussion is,

and that will certainly impact

as we look toward how we'regonna unify moving forward.

- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

is also warning Congressthey need to act fast

to address the debt ceilingbefore the government runs out

of money to pay its billsor the economic fallout

will be catastrophic.

Despite the looming crisis,

Republicans have no intentionof helping Democrats

raise the debt ceiling

with Congressmen Cloud

claiming the solution isto stop spending money

we don't have and livewithin our means as a nation.

Reporting from Capitol Hill,Abigail Robertson, CBN News.