September 23, 2025 • 6 mins
Ahh, yes, fall is here and along with it will soon be yet another time change on November 2nd.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Your questions, Brian's answers. It's time for today's Q and
A of today.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
This is the Brian Mud Show. Today's Q and A.
What's the deal with the Sunshine Protection Act? This is
brought to you by mull and Listen ashes check mark
collections each day, a future a listener question. Let us
end by one of these methods. You may email me
Brian Mud at iHeartMedia dot com. You may hit me
(00:31):
up socially app Brian Mud Radio and could also use
the iHeart Radio talkback features. So we would love it
if you would love us, go into the app, make
us your number one preset Brian Mudshow Podcast number two preset.
And while you're in there, you'll see a little microphone button.
See it, tap it you may lay down the message
right there maybe a top gred future for a future
Q and A just like this one. Good morning, Brian,
(00:53):
love listening to your show as if driving down to Miami.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
But what's happening with the daylight savings time? Thank you?
I appreciate you being there.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And yeah, so about this the Sunshine Protection Act.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
There's a lot that.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Is not happening here, so I yes fall here along
with it. Soon we'll be get another time change on
November two, and that is due once again with Congress's
failure to pass the Sunshine Protection Act now not for
lack of Floridians tried once again. Senator Rick Scott proposed
(01:33):
the legislation earlier this year at the onset of this
Congress and Representative Vern Buchanan.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
In the House.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Now he has moved since having been introduced, but not much.
In the Senate, the legislation has been read twice and
referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So that is something that is a little bit of movement.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
But that's that's about it still multiple steps away from
anything meaningfully really happening with it. Then you take a
look at the Senate situation and the House, it's a
different version of a similar thing. It was first formally introduced,
then referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce,
(02:21):
effectively same place in the House that it is in
the Senate. Just as notable the dates the last time
anything actually moved forward with either of those bills. The
last House action on the Sunshine Protection Act took place
on January third. In the Senate it was January seventh. Obviously,
(02:41):
no current momentum to propose the propel these proposals forward.
Although the time changes themselves have historically kind of served
as catalysts for this. Maybe maybe as we get closer
to November, they'll be on the radar again. Now, there
are two considerations that have come into play as to
why we haven't seen a move on the legislation throughout
the u The first is what President Trump's priorities have been.
(03:02):
With a narrow GOOPM majority in the House, the focus
throughout this year has squarely been on accomplishing President Trump's
ambitious agenda, largely accomplished through the passage of the One Big,
Beautiful Bill Act, while also cutting and spending through recisions
as identified by doche and currently in Congress is attempting
to work out funding the legislation by the end of
the month to avoid a partial government shutdown at the
(03:25):
start of the government's new fiscal year, which begins October first,
So everything else has been shelved until that's worked out.
The other reason there's been a lack of momentum in
this comes down to President Trump himself. So about that
part of this deal, you take a look at the president,
(03:45):
he is clearly supportive. Back in April, he posted this untruth.
He said the House and Senate should push for, push
hard for more daylight at the end of the day.
Very popular and most importantly, no more changing up the clocks,
A big inconvenience and for our government, a very costly event.
(04:07):
At the same time, when he was asked about the
prospects of actually passing the legislation, he said this, I
assume people would like to have more light later, but
some people want to have more light earlier because they
don't want to take their kids to school in the dark.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
A lot of.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
People like it one way, a lot of people like
it the other way. And then he referred to it
as a fifty to fifty issue.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Okay, so what does that mean.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It's clear that President Trump would sign the legislation in
the law if that made it to his task. However,
it's also been clear in terms of using political capital
to focus on its passage, he is not placea as
I have now been willing to go there now, potentially
more optimistically, there may be the opportunity for that to
change going.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Forward next year.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Next year is always going to be a lighter year legislatively.
It's an election year, but it's also the second year
of a presidency, and so that's what you see, and
that may provide the opportunity for something that is not
a partisan issue to rise further towards the surface. May
also become the case that President Trump could be more
(05:20):
willing to publicly rally support around that if he has
everything else accomplished for the most part that he's looking
for Congress to help with. So neither of those are guarantees,
but the way that this plays politically, it is more
likely than what we've seen so far now. Senator Scott
along with the Senator Rubio, it's worth reminding they weren't
(05:41):
able to gain passage in the Senate in twenty twenty two,
so it has made it all the way in the
Senate before. Unfortunately, that year, the Nancy Pelosi Ledhouse would
not take it up in time before the Congress ran out.
And while the time is set to change yet again
this year at the onset of November, this legislation, what's
proposed right now, does have a longer runway. It just
(06:04):
needs to get accomplished before January of twenty twenty seven
to go into effect. Somewhere along the way
Your questions, Brian's answers. It's time for today's Q and
A of today.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
This is the Brian Mud Show. Today's Q and A.
What's the deal with the Sunshine Protection Act? This is
brought to you by mull and Listen ashes check mark
collections each day, a future a listener question. Let us
end by one of these methods. You may email me
Brian Mud at iHeartMedia dot com. You may hit me
(00:31):
up socially app Brian Mud Radio and could also use
the iHeart Radio talkback features. So we would love it
if you would love us, go into the app, make
us your number one preset Brian Mudshow Podcast number two preset.
And while you're in there, you'll see a little microphone button.
See it, tap it you may lay down the message
right there maybe a top gred future for a future
Q and A just like this one. Good morning, Brian,
(00:53):
love listening to your show as if driving down to Miami.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
But what's happening with the daylight savings time? Thank you?
I appreciate you being there.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And yeah, so about this the Sunshine Protection Act.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
There's a lot that.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Is not happening here, so I yes fall here along
with it. Soon we'll be get another time change on
November two, and that is due once again with Congress's
failure to pass the Sunshine Protection Act now not for
lack of Floridians tried once again. Senator Rick Scott proposed
(01:33):
the legislation earlier this year at the onset of this
Congress and Representative Vern Buchanan.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
In the House.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Now he has moved since having been introduced, but not much.
In the Senate, the legislation has been read twice and
referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So that is something that is a little bit of movement.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
But that's that's about it still multiple steps away from
anything meaningfully really happening with it. Then you take a
look at the Senate situation and the House, it's a
different version of a similar thing. It was first formally introduced,
then referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce,
(02:21):
effectively same place in the House that it is in
the Senate. Just as notable the dates the last time
anything actually moved forward with either of those bills. The
last House action on the Sunshine Protection Act took place
on January third. In the Senate it was January seventh. Obviously,
(02:41):
no current momentum to propose the propel these proposals forward.
Although the time changes themselves have historically kind of served
as catalysts for this. Maybe maybe as we get closer
to November, they'll be on the radar again. Now, there
are two considerations that have come into play as to
why we haven't seen a move on the legislation throughout
the u The first is what President Trump's priorities have been.
(03:02):
With a narrow GOOPM majority in the House, the focus
throughout this year has squarely been on accomplishing President Trump's
ambitious agenda, largely accomplished through the passage of the One Big,
Beautiful Bill Act, while also cutting and spending through recisions
as identified by doche and currently in Congress is attempting
to work out funding the legislation by the end of
the month to avoid a partial government shutdown at the
(03:25):
start of the government's new fiscal year, which begins October first,
So everything else has been shelved until that's worked out.
The other reason there's been a lack of momentum in
this comes down to President Trump himself. So about that
part of this deal, you take a look at the president,
(03:45):
he is clearly supportive. Back in April, he posted this untruth.
He said the House and Senate should push for, push
hard for more daylight at the end of the day.
Very popular and most importantly, no more changing up the clocks,
A big inconvenience and for our government, a very costly event.
(04:07):
At the same time, when he was asked about the
prospects of actually passing the legislation, he said this, I
assume people would like to have more light later, but
some people want to have more light earlier because they
don't want to take their kids to school in the dark.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
A lot of.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
People like it one way, a lot of people like
it the other way. And then he referred to it
as a fifty to fifty issue.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Okay, so what does that mean.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It's clear that President Trump would sign the legislation in
the law if that made it to his task. However,
it's also been clear in terms of using political capital
to focus on its passage, he is not placea as
I have now been willing to go there now, potentially
more optimistically, there may be the opportunity for that to
change going.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Forward next year.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Next year is always going to be a lighter year legislatively.
It's an election year, but it's also the second year
of a presidency, and so that's what you see, and
that may provide the opportunity for something that is not
a partisan issue to rise further towards the surface. May
also become the case that President Trump could be more
(05:20):
willing to publicly rally support around that if he has
everything else accomplished for the most part that he's looking
for Congress to help with. So neither of those are guarantees,
but the way that this plays politically, it is more
likely than what we've seen so far now. Senator Scott
along with the Senator Rubio, it's worth reminding they weren't
(05:41):
able to gain passage in the Senate in twenty twenty two,
so it has made it all the way in the
Senate before. Unfortunately, that year, the Nancy Pelosi Ledhouse would
not take it up in time before the Congress ran out.
And while the time is set to change yet again
this year at the onset of November, this legislation, what's
proposed right now, does have a longer runway. It just
(06:04):
needs to get accomplished before January of twenty twenty seven
to go into effect. Somewhere along the way
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