SCOOP: The "BBB," Sale of Public Land, & The Latest From The Supreme Court

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Jenna Lee

Education, News

5 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Dear Listener ~ My whole goal is to provide quick, concise, nonpartisan news. So I'm bothered when I do not think I was as clear and concise as needed - I apologize! Budget reconciliation is a unique process that allows a bill to pass through Congress with fewer votes. HOWEVER, all components of this bill, or this package of policy proposals, has to relate to existing spending/revenue (budget). If proposals in the bill don't fall under this umbrella, or seem to fall outside of the power of the committee that proposed amendments, the Senate Parliamentarian can strike these amendments from the bill for a rule violation; this happened to the proposal for public land sales. We could still see a proposal to sell public land in the future, just not in this reconciliation process; it would likely need to come in the form of new legislation. Words matter here so while amendments can be cut for violating a rule, they can also be re-introduce with new language. This makes the story tricky and constantly developing. As I said, the procedure of it all ... impacts the substance of what stays in the bill ... and what doesn't ... and what we may eventually see as new legislation proposed in the future. Hope this helps! Jenna

A round-up of your top stories including "The Big Beautiful Bill Act" toiling in the Senate (the debate over medicaid cuts and the sale of public that wasn't). Plus ~ What The Supremes decided about the limits of judicial power to what your kiddo can "opt-out" of in the classroom.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Scoop, where you get the Scoop on this week's news.
0:04.9	My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News.
0:13.2	You know what we actually have to do is figure out a way to record your conversations that you're having live on Scoop before I join
0:24.3	the program. Because that's where all the good stuff happens. For those of you who are not
0:28.1	a Scoop Insider are choosing not to join us live, we get it. We understand. We love you anyways.
0:33.4	But we do have an insider community that gets together and joins the broadcast live on Mondays
0:38.6	and we get to interact.
0:40.0	You get your questions answered live.
0:41.5	It's awesome.
0:42.7	And I feel like we're actually really getting to know each other.
0:45.2	And there are certain days that we just let it all hang out, which is what's happening.
0:50.5	I think it's because it's before a holiday.
0:52.3	It's a holiday week.
0:53.6	By the way, holiday weeks. We should just take the whole week off. Because we have Friday off, then you're really taking Thursday off. Let's just take the whole week off. So I just want to congratulate you. If you're showing up here alive, thank you for this. Because we have a really big serving of news today that is going to get you prepped and ready for the rest of the week,
1:11.1	I promise. But also, I think all of us are a little bit on vacation mode. I was just running.
1:17.0	I was a little bit late. So a few quick business items before I get to the nitty gritty. That's
1:23.0	a technical term of what's going on with the news. A few business items. Well, first of all,
1:26.7	number one, thank you for being here. I see Jeremy jumping online. Jeremy sometimes is our, there's all sorts
1:34.5	of dudes, by the way, that join smarter news, that are followers of smarter news. But Jeremy,
1:41.2	by the way, gave a great piece of advice to all of us about a portable battery.
1:45.7	I'll make sure that's into the show notes.
1:47.3	Thank you, Jeremy, for that.
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