Let the vote-a-rama begin!
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 30 June 2025
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Summary
We’ve been a bit obsessed with the GOP’s budget bill lately. And with a Senate vote expected any day now, we’re keeping a close eye on the debate. We’ll break down how the GOP is playing with the numbers to make the bill look less costly on paper than it actually is. Plus, Gen Z’s not just good at memes and TikTok, they’re better at saving for retirement than millllenials. So how’d they do it? And a mildly terrifying story with a happy ending!
Here’s everything we talked about:
- “What is a vote-a-rama? Senate vote marathon ahead of Trump legislative package” from USA Today
“Senate Republicans reject Democrats' accounting baseline challenge” from POLITICO
“A List of Nearly Everything in the Senate G.O.P. Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save” from The New York Times
- “Gen Z, It Turns Out, Is Great at Saving for Retirement” from The New York Times
- “They sing to remember: The power of memory choirs” from National Geographic
- “Child reportedly fell overboard on Disney cruise. Her dad jumped in after her.” from USA Today
- “Heroic Dad Jumps Off Disney Dream to Rescue Overboard Daughter” from Cruisehive
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:11.8 | And I'm Rie Maechres. |
| 0:13.2 | Thank you for joining us, everyone. |
| 0:14.5 | It is Monday, June 30th. |
| 0:16.3 | It is a news and smile kind of day. |
| 0:19.4 | Let's start with the news. |
| 0:20.4 | You going to go first, Kimberly? |
| 0:22.1 | Yeah, of course. |
| 0:23.3 | I know I've been obsessed with it, but it's important. |
| 0:25.8 | I've been watching what's been going down with this reconciliation package all weekend. |
| 0:30.6 | All day long today, the Senate has been doing what's called a votarama. |
| 0:35.1 | So under the rules of reconciliation, they can actually, people |
| 0:40.3 | can introduce an unlimited number of amendments once debate has ended on the bill. And so that's |
| 0:45.6 | what's happening right now. There are all these amendments being introduced. Most of them, the vast |
| 0:49.5 | majority, will not pass. But the Senate is really working to push through this piece of legislation, |
| 0:55.1 | so we're expecting a vote probably either later today or tomorrow. But the introduction of all |
| 1:02.4 | these amendments is really just an opportunity for mostly Democrats to highlight components of |
| 1:07.0 | the bill and sort of set their political narrative around it. But one interesting thing |
| 1:12.1 | that happened over the weekend is something that progressives were complaining about |
| 1:16.7 | and warning about, which is that the Senate adopted the current policy baseline for pricing |
| 1:24.2 | out this bill. Now, folks who've been listening to the show will remember that |
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