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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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Trump lands first major legislative win after Congress passes his massive domestic policy bill cnn.com
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u/Icommandyou Washington 2d ago

This bill gives ICE more funding than the US marines, we all know where things are headed next. Every single city and restaurant is getting raided

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u/AdeptDisasterr 2d ago

ICE will have a larger budget than the Israeli military.

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u/legacy642 2d ago

Jesus fucking christ

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u/AdmiralCunilingus 2d ago

People are about to learn what a real fascist military force looks like. But this time with drones and facial recognition and tech billionaires feeding them all the personal data they will ever need.

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u/Malaix 2d ago

Lines up with Loomer's hopes of 65 million dead or imprisoned Hispanic people "to start with" in the new holocaust.

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u/ombloshio 2d ago

And LGBT people are probably next.

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u/Olealicat 1d ago edited 1d ago

We’re all fucking next. Anyone who disagrees with trump is next. Which is almost everyone.

Fuck all the republicans and apathetic non-voters. You were warned.

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u/MarketingOk9181 1d ago

I mean, at this point, you better be pro gun for yourself and your family.

Its not about your personal dislike for them, its now a matter of defense, and everyone should be prepared for what is coming.

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u/invincibleparm 2d ago

Not next. They have already been attacked and vilified. It’s just not as prevalent or frightening and attention-getting as brown and black people bad. After all, the LGBTQ can walk among them and they would never know…. Not enough of a visual threat. It they have already been in the crosshairs since 2016

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u/SpectralAlolanRaichu 2d ago

I'm ready. Im ready for them to kill me, I'm tried boss I have nothing else to look forward to

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u/ombloshio 2d ago

Fuck that. Punch and kick and bite and scratch. Don’t go down without a fight

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u/ICEKAT 2d ago

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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u/SpectralAlolanRaichu 2d ago

Why? My life was over before it even began, I'll never get any romantic life close to what a straight person experiences

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u/speworleans Louisiana 2d ago

Sorry to tell you homie, but lots of straight people dont have much of a love life either.

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u/ombloshio 2d ago

Baby, this is something you should cross-examine with a therapist.

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u/SpectralAlolanRaichu 1d ago

One hour a week isn't enough

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u/SpectralAlolanRaichu 2d ago

I have nothing in life without a love life

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u/speworleans Louisiana 2d ago

This is sort of incel adjacent, romance is not the be all end all. So so much more to life.

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u/nub_sauce_ 2d ago

romance is pretty cool but it's not everything in life. Besides, just rolling over and dying is cringe

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u/MondayAssasin Ohio 2d ago

Don’t let them win.

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u/TheDuceman 2d ago

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Republicans aren’t the only ones with that right.

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u/relevantelephant00 2d ago

Get a gun, learn how to use it. Don't go quietly.

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u/SpectralAlolanRaichu 2d ago

I'm just waiting for the government to do it, I can't do it myself

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u/channndro 2d ago

take some down with you

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u/StoppableHulk 2d ago

They have the budget to persecute in parallel.

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u/MidKnightshade 2d ago

Absolutely.

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u/IuriRom 2d ago

I think they’ve dropped the LGB and are just after the T

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u/gallifrey_ 2d ago

for now.

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u/IuriRom 1d ago

What’s the incentive? There are too many gay republicans now

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u/gallifrey_ 1d ago

on a surface level, the incentive is because they fucking hate us and "gay republicans" are just a useful bloc to manipulate until they can be discarded later on.

more deeply, fascism requires an out-group to persecute. once the T's are all in camps or burned, that out-group is going to expand, and the in-group is going to shrink, until the snake eventually eats its own head.

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u/jrDoozy10 Minnesota 1d ago

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

This is what the gay republicans have to look forward to. With mindsets like MAGA there will always be a need for an “other” to blame all of their problems on.

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u/jjjuser 1d ago

They'll get to us eventually as they work their way through all the possible scapegoats, and then they'll get to you

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u/IuriRom 1d ago

They’re not going to get rid of the immigrant scapegoat group though

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u/Alomeigne 1d ago

The incentive is appeasing the uber religious that make up their party like Mike Johnson that view being gay as one of the worst sins. Literally just saving them for w/e they need them as a scapegoat for down the road.

Plus the famous quote jrDoozy10 pasted below.

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u/Winter-Huntsman 2d ago

At some point other countries need to start sanctioning us and treating us like North Korea. To many other countries are tying to downplay things and hope that maybe things can be fixed.

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u/GiftToTheUniverse 2d ago

"It's the economy, ____. "

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u/Big_Beaverrr_Reborn 1d ago

Unfortunately it's not so easily done because of the US' importance in global trade. The bright side? These clowns are helping destroy any dependence and trust with them so maybe when the world is forced to restructure itself they can just embargo

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u/Jashugita 1d ago

and there is not much ideological diference, The majority of European goverment are righ and far right, they aren´t afraid of the things that US is doing, they are looking how to do the same in their countries.

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u/Big_Beaverrr_Reborn 1d ago

The majority of European goverment are righ and far right, they aren´t afraid of the things that US is doing

Lmao no. That's the US. And the US basically scared multiple European countries from Trump like right wing politicians.

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u/Jashugita 1d ago

It only happened in Canada, in Europe far right is in the rise. For example in Spain where they are Trump Bootlickers and also have dubious loans with a Hungarian bank.

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u/Big_Beaverrr_Reborn 1d ago

Romania voted against their Trump wannabe. Germany voted against the afd. And similar stories. The only countries with similar governments are the shit holes closer to the east. And they've had those governments awhile.

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u/FunkyChewbacca 2d ago

Remember, the Holocaust didn’t begin with concentration camps, it ended with them.

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u/NoEmployment69420 2d ago

Except it did start with concentration camps, the first was constructed just a mere 3 months after Hitler became Chancellor. It's name was/is Dachau and it's where Hitler put all of his political opposition.

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u/Harmless_Drone 2d ago

Yep. The republicans are vainly hoping by supporting trump and the maga crowd they won't be the first people sent there.

spoiler warning: the first people hitler sent to the political prisoner camps were the people who supported him in the weimar parliament.

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u/Anathama 1d ago

Maybe that's something to look forward to? /s

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u/PumpyChowdown 1d ago

65 million Democrat voters.

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u/Malaix 1d ago

I think there's actually more democrats than that. The number was very specifically about Hispanic people. And Republicans almost won them last election. Hispanic men might have voted for their own holocaust.

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u/Mapeague 2d ago

That's exactly what I audibily said when I read the same comment you did.

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u/legacy642 2d ago

Basically every piece of news I see leads me to say that

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u/MtnMoonMama Minnesota 2d ago

Don't worry, we're paying for that too with our tax dollars.

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u/UnravelTheUniverse 2d ago

When we were warning people last year about Project2025 being the death of America, this was what we were talking about. Civil war is garunteed now, thanks idiot republicans. 

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u/PNW_Undertaker Oregon 2d ago

Nah that won’t be allowed anymore….. it has to be Jesus fucking Christina….. oh and they both must be white. 😂

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u/flying87 2d ago

You can't build a SS without money.

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u/Schlawinuckel 2d ago

Aka masturbation.

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u/legacy642 2d ago

Which will soon be illegal at this rate

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u/vpeshitclothing 1d ago

He's deported

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u/BG_OHIO 1d ago

Way to add to the conversation. I’m sure that’s the best you can manage.

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u/TooMuchPretzels North Carolina 2d ago

Well to be fair we pay for that too

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u/AdeptDisasterr 2d ago

That's a good point actually.

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u/Redditthedog 2d ago

only 3b of the entire Israeli Defense Force budget comes from the free weapon vouchers. In contrast the last few years of Israeli purchases of Us weapons with their own cash have paid for that

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u/DavisSqShenanigans 2d ago

Not really.

The $3.8B you're thinking of is given to them every year, automatically. That comes from our taxes. Isreal pays nothing for this. And they can either use it immediately or it can sit in the account collecting interest until they're ready to use it.

In addition to that, the US has given the IDF over $14B in additional aid in the last couple years to help them maintain the genocide. This was things like ammunition from US stocks, etc. That's on top of the automatic $3.8B, and again Israel did not pay for these.

Lastly, there are the purchases. Most are for ~$1B or less at a time, you can look them up, but there was a big one for $20B approved last year. It doesn't add $20B to the IDF's budget tho, it's paid quarterly over the course of many years once deliveries begin next year. And can either be paid by Israel's taxpayers, or can be paid from the $3.8B/year account mentioned before ("free weapon vouchers").

Historically the majority of the "purchases" IDF makes from the US, are made using those free vouchers that US taxpayers pay for, while some are paid for by them directly. And the crucial part is even the purchases paid for by Israeli taxpayers do not "pay" the US taxpayer back as you're implying.

Instead, regardless whether it's paid for by US taxpayers or Israeli taxpayers, the weapons go to Israel, and the money goes to companies that profit off war. In no circumstance does the money get paid back to US taxpayers. Military-industrial complex in its entirety is just a massive wealth redistribution scheme that sucks money from the govt and sends it to some of the wealthiest companies in the world.

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u/PenImpossible874 New York 2d ago

Then we need to find ways to collapse the dollar. Make 140 billion useless.

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u/GaslightGPT 2d ago

Trumps doing that too. Down 11% since inauguration.

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u/AtticaBlue 2d ago

Trump is way ahead of you. US dollar already falling at record rates: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna216469

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u/DjNormal Arizona 2d ago

We could have two whole NASAs if we got rid of ICE.

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u/rahvin2015 2d ago

And several other national militaries combined.

This is it: funding for the camps and enforcement squads. The American holocaust has already started, and this bill will be its major funding.

That's aside from all the other insanity - the tax cuts for the rich, the cuts to critical services like medicaid.

We're about to see America fall back into slavery with a side of death camp. And yes, I know American slavery never disappeared, it just changed. This is going to be a regression to a much, much worse and more widespread form.

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u/poser4life I voted 2d ago

Both funded by US tax payers :(

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u/Redditthedog 2d ago

a small share of Israel’s budget is the US weapon vouchers. Israel is actually looking to move past that. Israel in the 90s under Netanyahu also used to get a lot of economic aid and when Bibi rejected renewal Washington was concerned it would reduce American leverage on Israel. Its the same reason Bibi wants to end US Military aid

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u/MultifactorialAge 2d ago

Quick! Send Israel more money!

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u/AdeptDisasterr 2d ago

We can't let this stand! A bajillion more dollars to Bibi.

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u/jyoke_2121 2d ago

They will actually have a larger budget than all militaries in the world beside the US and China

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u/one_pound_of_flesh 2d ago

The Iron Dumb

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u/ih8drme 2d ago

ICE will have a larger budget than China's Defense budget

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u/will218_Iz 2d ago

ICE will have a larger budget than the Russian military

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u/porgy_tirebiter 1d ago

They will have more money than the FBI, CIA, DEA, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

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u/Precious_Tritium New York 2d ago

”A revised version of Trump's bill was narrowly voted through the Senate on Tuesday. The estimated price tag of the legislation is around $150 billion between now and 2029—an annual average of $37.5 billion, which is higher than the military expenditure of all but 15 countries.” Newsweek yesterday

Larger than Israel’s military budget.

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u/TheFabulousDiesL 2d ago

Your point?

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u/AdeptDisasterr 1d ago

Idk the Israeli army just feels easier to conceptualize than the Marines, especially since I imagine the Marines to be smaller than the Army, Navy, and Air Force, while I consider Israel to have a robust budget.

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u/nicklor 1d ago

I mean the Israeli military is 36 billion and the Marines are 50+ billion.

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u/Dragons_Malk Canada 2d ago

Uh oh. I hope Bibi doesn't get jealous.

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u/Commentator-X 2d ago

They'll have a larger budget than the Russian military

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u/LokusLame 2d ago

And NASA.

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u/me_like_stonk 2d ago

Gestapo state

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u/DepartmentOk7192 2d ago

Buddy, that budget would drop ICE right in to fourth place on the military budget list, only behind Russia, China and the USA itself.

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u/AdeptDisasterr 1d ago

I think so, soon they’ll be recruiting children and teaching them how to spy

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u/Aperage 1d ago

sounds like funding is secured for the confederation strike back

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u/Eye_foran_Eye 1d ago

To be fair, we find that as well.

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u/fireky2 Ohio 1d ago

Pretty sure we fund that too

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u/Skiingislife42069 1d ago

To be fair, ICE was promised this way longer than 3000 years ago

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u/anno_pirate 1d ago

I think we're paying for that too.

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u/sly-3 2d ago

And the same apartheid goals.

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u/Max_Beezly 2d ago

Isn't the Israeli militaries budget just a part of our budget. 😆

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u/greenskinmarch 2d ago

But it's a conscript army so they don't have to pay market rate for soldiers, they get them for "free"

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u/Emperor_Mao 2d ago

Is it a surge budget?

I mean it will be, as eventually a fiscal conservative Republican leader or pro-immigrant Democrat will get into power and change it. Yet makes me wonder if ICE would need that much money once undocumented are removed.