that list as priorities. more than half a trillion dollars just to extend the child tax credit. $200 billion to make aca subsidies permanent. $357 billion for new medicare benefits for seniors. that's a lot of money. how does that all add up? you total that, that already gets you above the $2 trillion it figure. just under president biden's top line, but to be clear, this is a hypothetical. we don't have any insider knowledge of what those negotiators are talking about putting in it there either program wise or length of those programs. if democrats want to make room, they have a couple more options that could be a little less generous. look at the child tax credit. instead of making it $3,600 per child, scale it back to $1,800. people get it if they are under a certain income level. that's another way to save money by lowering or raising the