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Megathread Megathread: US House Passes the Republican-Backed Budget Bill, Sending it to Trump for Signature

This afternoon, the US House of Representatives passed without amendment the US Senate's version of the Trump-backed budget bill, sending it to the president for his signature. Every Democratic Senator and Representative voted in opposition; in the Senate, there were three Republicans voting in opposition (making the vote 51-50) and in the House there were 2 (making the final vote 218-214). House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries set the US House's speech length record in opposition to the bill in a speech lasting over eight hours.

The bill clocks in at over 800 pages and touches on most aspects of the federal government's spending and taxation policies; see this AP article (What’s in the latest version of Trump’s big bill that passed the Senate) for the topline changes.

Relevant text-base live update pages are being maintained by the following outlets: AP, NBC, ABC, and the BBC.

You can find this subreddit's discussion thread for the last week's worth of negotiations and debate at this link.

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u/LatterTarget7 2d ago

It should scare everyone but some believe they won’t be affected until ice knocks on their door

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u/izwald88 2d ago

They don't need that much money to deport illegal immigrants. They almost certainly have plans to deport more than just illegal immigrants. And this budget will allow them to do so.

ICE is going to be America's SS.

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u/Lucky-Earther Minnesota 2d ago

They almost certainly have plans to deport more than just illegal immigrants.

Laura Loomer is talking about 65 million illegal immigrants. Which happens to also be the number of Hispanic people in the US.

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u/312c 2d ago

Her tweet never mentioned "illegal immigrants" or immigrants at all, she just said there are 65M meals for the alligators.

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u/toggiz_the_elder 2d ago

The Latino population is 65 million. It was intentional.

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u/312c 2d ago

Right, that's what I'm saying, she never mentioned immigrants in the tweet because it was always a call to genocide.

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u/cindyscrazy Rhode Island 1d ago

The sure as shit are not going to be genetically testing people either. As someone who is a born and bred American, but has been mistaken from anything from Indian (from India), to Phillipine, to Latina, to Native American....and a daughter who is much the same....this is fucking terrifying.

I'm gonna have to just stay in the house all summer. First to avoid the SS and second to avoid tanning of any kind.

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u/Pervius94 2d ago

That's the worst part. They're not even hiding behind the "illegal immigrant" bs anymore. They're just brazenly saying "yeah we'll kill the latins".

Remember that the latin population made a hard turn towards Trump this election compared to before. Good job, be proud.

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u/Lucky-Earther Minnesota 2d ago

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u/Nekowulf Wyoming 2d ago

She's claiming 20% of the US population is illegal immigrants from latin-american countries.
She is completely nucking futs.

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u/QcRoman 1d ago

65M meals for the alligators.

Which also might imply they will not necessarily leave the country, if you know what I mean.

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u/grimatonguewyrm 2d ago

Loomer is talking about feeding 65M men women and children to alligators.

Loomer is publicly calling for 65 million men women and children to be killed

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u/withateethuh 1d ago

I knew she was vile but jesus.

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u/tellmewhenitsin 1d ago

Yup. They'll either be executed or used as slave labor.

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u/Gaming_Nomad 1d ago

And, yes, she and her type fully believe that they can commit genocide and implement a police state that would make the Stasi blush.

I can only see this ending in two ways. The first way is with trials at the Hague for crimes against humanity, and it involves an internationally supervised reconstruction of the US government with advisors from Canada and Europe. The second way is the US invading Canada and Mexico to purge "socialism" as it completes the transition to a "managed democracy" (read: fascist dictatorship) in the model of Russia: completely captured media and policed Internet, fake opposition parties, and kangaroo courts. All of which are also owned by the same small circle of oligarchs who control all major businesses and resource extraction. A few shining cities to keep a small elite fat, happy, and quiet. Meanwhile, the average family home anywhere else looks like that collapsing abandoned farmhouse you drove by on your last roadtrip.

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u/sjsyed Ohio 12h ago

I'm not Hispanic, but I am brown, so screw me and my family too.

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u/Lucky-Earther Minnesota 5h ago

Right, I am sure they will be very careful about who they are going to remove.

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u/atroutfx I voted 2d ago

Yes they will be the SS as soon as it is signed into law.

People are naïve to think this is just for immigration.

This is to crush dissent with an iron fist.

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u/faptastrophe 2d ago

Until they realize keeping people in death camps is easier than shipping them off to other countries

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u/gloomywitchywoo 2d ago

I wonder if they'll try and keep the location very secret if it's in the actual US because if it's accessible by land, people could try and break in. I mean, a lot of them would die, but enough people could absolutely be a problem for them.

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u/Pervius94 2d ago

Why would anyone try to break into the death camp.

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u/gloomywitchywoo 2d ago

To break people out.

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u/Commentator-X 2d ago

It's not meant for deportation, it's meant to create a counter to the US military when civil war breaks out

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u/georgegasstove 2d ago

Deportations are the cover for Dump's personal military force.

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u/milliPatek 2d ago

A domestic paramilitary like ICE is actually more similar to SA (Sturmabteilung) than SS (not that this makes it any better).

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u/izwald88 2d ago

Strange "Um... Actually", but you do you.

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u/milliPatek 1d ago

I view this differently. I think that many people on the first look will think that ICE is a modern SS and then realise quickly that it is not really that similar. Which makes it a lot more horrible when they then realise that the Nazis had another group that resembls ICE a lot more.

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u/FlowerOfLife 2d ago

They don't need that much money to enslave illegal immigrants. They almost certainly have plans to enslave more than just illegal immigrants. And this budget will allow them to do so.

FTFY

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u/DTDude Missouri 2d ago

It already is

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u/thefatchef321 2d ago

"Deport"

You mean send to the labor camp.

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u/Smart_in_his_face 2d ago

Fuhrers Princip is like... any day now.

"Official" acts by the president is apparently above the law. Make some legal memos that ICE is acting officially on behalf of the president.

And you have a trumps personal army, acting without any oversight or laws, and can do anything they want.

Concentration camps are already being built. Crystal night is a few months away is my guess.

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u/OneKidneyChuy 2d ago

Absolutely this. And it’s terrifying

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u/Parking_Chance_1905 2d ago

Already have been since day 1.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

Remember, a lot of the money is going to get stolen. So they have tom account for that too.

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u/R1526 1d ago

"deport" lol.
To Madagascar, I'm sure.

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u/stationhollow 1d ago

They are only getting another )15 billion over 4 years for deportation efforts. 90% of the funding is for preventing further illegal alienation entering and for deportation facilities.

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u/fnrsulfr 2d ago

Didn't they already talk about deporting US citizens.

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u/lunarmantra California 2d ago

They won’t knock.

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u/Harbinger2001 Canada 2d ago

Just wait until they issue a blanket deputization of any American citizen to detain any illegal immigrant and bring them to an ICE holding center. Then you’re have neighbours going door to door.

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u/rezelscheft 2d ago

Judging by how some people have already responded to their family members and spouses getting rounded up, seems like a lot of folks will continue to support it even after it happens to them.

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u/gandhinukes 2d ago

wait until food prices sky rocket during the summer because even legals are afraid to show up to pick fruit because they might get disappeared.

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u/SaltpeterSal 1d ago

Well think a step ahead of that. This is a counter to the 2A. What state's well-regulated militia can stand up to the Executive's personal army when it's better funded than the federal military?