The Obama administration is about to face its first significant financial test.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is expected to lay out the government's strategy for reviving the banking system in a speech Monday.
Fixing the problems at the banks won't be simple or cheap. Economists say it will likely take more than the $350 billion remaining under the Troubled Asset Relief Program to fund the next round of federal programs.
One senior administration official told CNN the package being put together by Geithner and other top economic advisers to the President would "be an overhaul of the whole program."