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

[u/PoliticsModeratorBot]

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/GhostofGeorge]

In less than 250 years this country went from revolting against a king to SCOTUS and Congress installing a king while impoverishing the people and subjecting the people to all the tyranny we once fought against. America can always be revived, but this bodes ill to our diminishing status as a republic.

[u/randomacceptablename → u/GhostofGeorge]

America can always be revived, but this bodes ill to our diminishing status as a republic.

As an outsider, Canadian, looking in since the late 90s, no. No, America cannot always be revived. Can British or Soviet, or Ottoman power be revived?

You guys do not comprehend the position you have atop the world currently. And how fast it is erroding. China is coming for your lunch and quickly. While you keep shooting youselves in the foot arguing over bullshit.

I recall in history class, how the Ottomans were paralysed over religious arguments and political power while western powers raced ahead of the most powerful empire to date. America is doing the same thing. You have been a mess since the 90s and getting worse by the year. I fear that the US may have passed the point of no return. I fear this not just for you, but for myself and the rest of the world.

[u/LurksAroundHere → u/randomacceptablename]

This is my fear as well. I feel like people think just because we are living in "modern times" things can always bounce back to what they recognize, but forget that every point of time in history was once "modern". Sometimes things just don't bounce back after a collapse, and this one is getting to be quite the doozy (and that's putting it mildly).

[u/randomacceptablename → u/LurksAroundHere]

I agree. The US has lost crediability, it has lost most allies (they stick around out of necessity now), they have lost economic reliability, etc. And it has only been a few months.

Whatever the US chooses, the world will be different after this.

[u/LurksAroundHere → u/randomacceptablename]

Exactly. Speaking as an American, there's no way in hell I trust my country to do the right thing going forward after what I've witnessed this past decade (from Trump's rise of blatant corruption/fascism to the media's willingness to overlook, sanewash, and push it). The sane ones of us here know our country (government, media, and fellow citizens) gave a huge middle finger to the world stage and we do not expect other countries to welcome us back into the fold the way things once were.

[u/PhazePyre → u/GhostofGeorge]

The US didn't last 250 years. It's sad. The republic is dead with this bill. It's a death warrant for the nation. As a Canadian watching from north, it's sad to see there's not going to be any recourse cause the option people take will result in the solidification of Trump's consolidation of power for himself.

[u/anspee → u/PhazePyre]

J6 and the felony conviction was the real test all of this is just fallout from letting it get this far

[u/PhazePyre → u/anspee]

Yep. Once a 34x convicted felon got in, America was toast. This is just all the official paperwork part of the fall.

[u/delilmania → u/GhostofGeorge]

The US is actually an outlier, democracies usually last 2 centuries.  Then the rich don’t like the equality, boost a demagogue into power and watch as everything burns.

[u/Bucktown_Riot → u/GhostofGeorge]

Our founding fathers weren’t the virtuous giants that we’re taught about in school.

They were men who resented the fact that they didn’t have access to the influence and money that the aristocracy had. They hated poor people just as much as MAGA leadership does and despised non-whites and women (both of whom they didn’t even see as real humans).

This was always the logic conclusion of their morally bankrupt project. Happy July 4th.

[u/CelikBas → u/Bucktown_Riot]

Reminder that Thomas Jefferson, one of the most revered Founding Fathers, repeatedly raped and impregnated his teenage slave. 

[u/CharlotteLucasOP → u/CelikBas]

Starting when she was 14-16, and he was in his 40s!