wondering what actually goes into your multivitamin? at new chapter, its innovation, organic ingredients, and fermentation. fermentation? yes. formulated to help you body really truly absorb the natural goodness. new chapter. wellness, well done. the disgraced, twice-impeached former president has been out of office now for just about eight months. luckily, we haven t seen too much of him or really any of his former administration officials. no jared, no ivanka, no steven
mnuchin, no mark meadows. i almost forgot what he looks like. we are learning today from some brand-new reporting in the washington post that you, we, all of us, the taxpayers have been paying for their extra secret service protection. new analysis from the washington post on spending documents shows that in a highly unusual order trump ordered six months of extra protection for his four adult children and high-level officials like steve mnuchen, mark meadows and former national security adviser robert o brien. all together all that security totaled $1.7 million, a bill footed by the american taxpayers who continue to pay for the ex-president and his associate. let s bring in david farenthold. donny deutsch is here, host of the online podcast. david, first of all tell people what is standard for ex-cabinet
interest. they had no leg to stand on. mnuchin was armed to just stonewall, and it was one of the many things as john said that just kind of happened. they had to go on to the next battle and now it falls either to the congress or historians to ferret it out. we should have known it then. better late than never. this is going to be another real treasure-trove of information. under the law it s secret and not make it public. we ll see whether congress somehow winds up leaking the information or not. but they have a right to it immediately, and the doj did the right thing here. harry litman, john heilemann, i m happy to get to talk to both of you about these two huge breaking news stories. always happy to see you both.
amount, which i should emphasize includes things like extending the child tax credit. this month we saw families begin to receive up to $300 per month in that tax credit, we don t want that to end at the end of this year, we wanted to continue. we want medicare to cover important services like vision, dental, hearing which is not covered by medicare. we want to reduce the cost of description drugs by giving medicare the power to negotiate drug prices. these are all important elements of the budget route framework that we re working on in the senate, with the democratic parties. in 2017, in a press conference with the treasury secretary mnuchin, mitch mcconnell said that there is zero chance we won t raise the debt ceiling, no chance, america is not going to default. now he s suggesting that you all put this into the budget reconciliation bill.
of the budget resolution framework that we re working on in the senate with the democratic caucus. in 2017, at a press conference with then-treasury secretary mnuchin, he said there is no way this will happen. now they want to put it in the budget reconciliation bill. can we just put it in the reconciliation bill that we will do it all? could that be done? it would be cumbersome doing it that way because democrats don t want the united states to default on its credit. we don t want to create a meltdown. as you explained, it s important that everybody understand raising the debt ceiling is to pay for the obligations the united states government has already undertaken, that are