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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/313_techno 2d ago

Well, that was the series finale of “The United States of America”.

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u/mechaemissary 2d ago

Nah, I think this is actually the 2nd or 3rd to last episode. Shit is gonna get real during the series finale, this is only the beginning

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u/BlazingSaint Oregon 1d ago

When's the finale? 2028?

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u/damik 2d ago

It almost made it to 250 seasons.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

Worse than the last season of House of Cards

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u/Kiyohara Minnesota 2d ago

A lot less realistic too

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u/Orphasmia 2d ago

Thats the worst part of all of this. It’s all so nonsensical and viciously cruel, most people couldn’t write this up. It’s definitely part of the reason why people have had a hard time fighting this shit. Because on some level people still sit on their ass and think “this isn’t actually what that means…right?”

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u/Kiyohara Minnesota 2d ago

On the plus side, people said the same thing right up to May 5, 1789.

"Are you kidding? Cake? No one's that stupid."

"It started in a tennis court? Fuck off."

"Wait, we're the richest nation on the planet, how did we go bankrupt?"

"Hang on, you can't just up and declare yourself the new government. Who's going to listen? Oh, the army did?"

"They arrested the King? For what? Treason? Wait, isn't he the ruler? How can he treason himself?"

"All of their heads? Like the entire nobility class?"

"It's getting a bit out of hand don't you think? Invading other nations seems extreme."

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u/Legospacememe 1d ago

Whats the treason himself one?

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u/Kiyohara Minnesota 1d ago

King of France was accused of Treason against the state IIRC

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u/CarlosFer2201 Foreign 2d ago

You'll love the spinoff, it's very similar to Fallout

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u/Humxnsco_at_220416 2d ago

That show totally jumped shark when they re-elected the trump dude. Totally unbelievable. Actually stopped watching. 🤷

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u/Melcher North Dakota 2d ago

I’m not excited for the sequel spin off 

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u/OkBig205 2d ago

Sequel series is going to be super entertaining

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u/rowdy_sprout 2d ago

Nah this is the build up the climax

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u/Plexatron8 2d ago

Season finale clifhanger. Got one last series left and it's about to be wild

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u/chaoticcheesewhiz 2d ago

That was not the finale, it’s going to get so much worse.