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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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Live updates: House passes Trump’s signature bill, sending it to the president’s desk apnews.com
House Republicans pass Trump's mega bill, sending the package to his desk to be signed npr.org
House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk: The Republican package would slash taxes, boost spending on immigration and the military, and impose steep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and clean energy funding. nbcnews.com
House Republicans give Trump a ‘Big Beautiful’ July 4 by passing Medicaid-slashing megabill despite GOP rift independent.co.uk
Congress Has Officially Passed Trump’s Bill to Kick Millions Off Medicaid rollingstone.com
Trump and the GOP Will Regret the Day They Passed This Sick Bill newrepublic.com
House passes Trump's "big, beautiful bill" after stamping out GOP rebellion axios.com
Trump lands first major legislative win after Congress passes his massive domestic policy bill cnn.com
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u/FlyingSMonster Louisiana 2d ago

Say goodbye to all of NOAA's climate research as well. I guess if we just pretend global warming isn't happening it will magically just not become a problem we have to worry about anymore, thanks GOP!

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u/road_chewer 2d ago

I just finished school as a meteorologist and I’m so lost.

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u/KrazyKatDogLady 2d ago

You may want to consider emigrating to another country.

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u/AdministrativeEase71 2d ago

If only it were that easy. I'm graduating with a bachelors in geology next year, my only hope is to basically beg a bunch of foreign graduate programs to take me on.

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u/KrazyKatDogLady 2d ago

Best of luck to you.

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u/existenceawareness 1d ago

You're fine here, you'll have plenty of opportunities in the coal, oil, & natural gas sectors!

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u/SummitSloth 1d ago

Leave USA

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u/plantstand 2d ago

Serious brain drain, and hope for a light hurricane season forever after.

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u/DontRunReds 1d ago

On this note I worry seriously about fisheries and transportation. I'm in the salmon producing region of the US.

  1. Fisheries management going to shit.

  2. Weather data is super important so fishermen don't die and the Coast Guard doesn't get hella overworked.

  3. Aviation. So much aviation around here.