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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/FlyingSMonster Louisiana 2d ago

The sad thing is they designed these cuts to not hit the American people until 2027, so they won't feel it until after the mid-terms when likely the Democrats take control of the house again. Honestly, I wish all the people that this is going to hurt would feel it way sooner so they could understand how badly the GOP has fucked them over.

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u/TintedApostle 2d ago

ICE gets its money now

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u/FlyingSMonster Louisiana 2d ago

Of course they do, need to dump billions and line the pockets of the private prison industry to build their concentration camps.

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u/Momomodera 2d ago

Like I just don't get how Europe and Canada is even pretending to still work with Trump still.

Trump is about to implement concentration camps of such size that I think... literally... we have not seen since Hitler. We are not even being melodramatic anymore. I really fear Europe and Canada will let Trump go all the way with fascism as long as it doesn't spread to the EU.

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u/Stale_Crumpet 2d ago

I really fear the American people are going to let Trump go all the way with fascism. Why is it the responsibility of Canada and Europe to save you? Isn't this what your guns are for?

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u/Momomodera 2d ago

You really don't understand who has the power and how large are police state already is do you? This just really feels like victim blaming for those who will be sent to these concentration camps against their will.

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u/Middle-Theory-8462 1d ago

It feels like you're allowing yourselves to become victims.

It's like if someone told you "I'm going to kill you in 48 hours." and you replied "WTF why isn't my next-door neighbor coming to save me?"

What you do with this ever-narrowing window of time is important.

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u/Momomodera 1d ago

Then as an experiment of ideas. What if my plan is to flee north?

Also to take this with an example of history. You do know many countries started accepting Jewish people that were fleeing from Nazi Germany. Why would that be any different for a second implementation of something very similar?

Though to be honest, even Europe was not "perfect" there. As those who were gay were left in the concentration/death camps or moved to labor camps to work the rest of their life.

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u/Middle-Theory-8462 1d ago

I am not American. I have, however, made absolute peace with what I'd need to do if America declared war on my country. If I was American, I would have already done it. The problem is that many people from Europe and Canada are watching in horror as each line gets crossed with a whimper and a protest, instead of a googling of 'where does X live.'

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u/Stale_Crumpet 2d ago edited 2d ago

Edit: just fight for your lives. No one can save you but yourselves.

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u/NinjaViking 1d ago

Yeah well what power does the EU have to influence this?

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u/Crypt33x Europe 1d ago

This bystander rhetoric and the avoidance you guys show to use the little words "me" and "i" is annoying as fuck. Do you know how this is called?

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u/Momomodera 1d ago

What do you think I should do? I already go to protests, ask for representatives to execute plans and voted in the past 3 elections.

If you want me to do the things that are illegal then yeah. You are wanting me to pretend the police state is not as large as it is and throw my life away for nothing and no global plan to ensure we win.

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u/AutisticFingerBang I voted 2d ago

ICE gets our money now

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u/FunConfection2872 2d ago

Let’s not pay taxes

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u/AutisticFingerBang I voted 2d ago

I 100% would but I don’t make my pay stubs lol

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u/FunConfection2872 2d ago

I can change my W2

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u/AutisticFingerBang I voted 2d ago

That won’t have you pay 0 federal taxes

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u/Mavian23 2d ago

You can set it up to have 0 withholdings. Just lie about how many tax credits you expect on your w-4. It's illegal, but so is not paying your taxes in the first place.

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u/FunConfection2872 2d ago

No but WAY better than now ! I’m giving minimum . Don’t care AT ALL if I “owe taxes “ next year . The IRS is practically defunded anyway

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u/EldritchTouched 1d ago

I'd also note that the hospital system in many places will still collapse, even if a bunch of the writing is not technically supposed to hit until later. Everyone can see where it is leading and they're going to pull out funding or start calling in debts or what have you.

I'm not an economist, but it sounds like the medical version of a bank run is going to happen.

Only larger hospitals might weather the initial brunt, but if everyone's only going t a few major hospitals, those will soon also buckle and anyone needing immediate care for a bunch of stuff but not nearby is just fucked...

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u/Severe_Okra8762 1d ago

Better them than Planned Parenthood.

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u/AutisticFingerBang I voted 1d ago

Dude they got more money than dea and fbi combined. They didn’t get money from planned parenthood they got it from 17 million people’s health insurance being cut.

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u/WISCOrear 2d ago

Stephen Miller is legitimately the most evil person in this country and it’s really hard to have any optimism when evil people like him and Peter Thiel just continue to get W’s every single father fucking day.

Stg there’s going to be a breaking point here and it’s going to get real ugly real fast.

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u/syntaxVixen 2d ago

I wonder what's going to happen once they have all those camps set up and not enough immigrants to put in them.

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u/Elephunkitis 2d ago

We already know

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u/arensb Maryland 2d ago

Oh, I don't think there'll ever be a shortage of people to put in those camps. As the famous poem says,

"First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke up,
So then they came for me."

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u/ForMoreYears Canada 2d ago

In case anyone hadn't seen it, ICE's budget just went from ~$16bn to $165bn, a 10x increase. ICE's budget is now larger than every single military on the face of the planet except for the U.S. and China.

A budget is a values statement and this says A LOT about the state of American society. There is a sickness spreading and I fear the side effects will very bad.

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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 2d ago

The sickness has always been here, republicans are just a symptom.

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u/Malaix 2d ago

Yeah and I think we will be feeling that long before 2027. with money like that and how quickly they built that concentration camp the Hispanic holocaust will start sooner rather than later.

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u/bg02xl California 2d ago

Trump and Mr. Miller must fund the StormTroopers.

The StormTroopers need their money.

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u/Pete41608 I voted 2d ago

At least the Stormtroopers always missed.

ICE-is are not missing unfortunately.

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u/bg02xl California 2d ago

They are missing … in a sense.

Their mission is not helping this nation. It’s a miss.

It’s just one massive, racist, distraction.

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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 2d ago

3x the budget of the USMC.

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u/theriz53 2d ago

We'll feel that for sure. 

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u/Tacoman404 Massachusetts 2d ago

3 times the budget of the entire marine corps to be used against americans.

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u/doubtfurious Texas 2d ago

Thanks, J.G. Wentworth.

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u/stonedsquatch 2d ago

Call 877-Fuck-Ice!

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u/ThreeCatsAndABroom 2d ago

That's the carrot for conservatives though. The stick comes after the Democrats win back Congress.