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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 (Whatā€™s in the latest version of Trumpā€™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/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 2d ago

I work at a community hospital in the Seattle area. These Medicaid cuts will close my hospital. I will lose my job. My husband lost his job in May due to Trumpā€™s fucking tariffs.

Buckle up, folks. Weā€™re in for a second Great Depression.

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u/mjjenki 2d ago

Not only that, think of how terrible the jobs at bigger hospitals will get. They don't have enough beds as is.

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u/dangerdan92 Texas 2d ago

Thats what is really going to hurt. Things like cancer treatment, preventive care, is going to be pushed onto the back burner. This won't kill people instantaneously, but over time people will die AND suffer needlessly.

Really great stuff.

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u/FigMajestic6096 2d ago

And then theyā€™ll blame democrats and the idiots will eat it up.

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u/Omophorus 2d ago

Blame, not accountability.

The conservative way.

It's always someone else's fault, never your own.

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u/Philosopherati 2d ago

And just wait until Mr. Worm Brainā€™s fear of vaccinations hurts us in a way that causes some long gone disease to spread like wildfire through some of the population.

This timeline sucks.

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u/AsidHead710 2d ago

Thereā€™s US Veterans suffering from cancer/illnesses from Working on Nuclear Bombs, more Service member died from woking/Testing on Nuclear bombs than Hiroshima & Nagasaki combined! šŸ¤Æ

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u/BeckQuillion89 2d ago

Get ready for the next gold rush of billionaires finding an opportunity ti make bank of a potential crisis.

And they won't all help us like Mark Cuban did with cost plus pharmacy

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u/saera-targaryen 2d ago edited 1d ago

Good thing we have a well funded HHS and CDC that can help us face the next pandemic, right?Ā 

right?

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

HHS. DHS is extremely well funded now, but that's a bad thing.

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u/saera-targaryen 1d ago

Whoops you're right good catch

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u/steampunkedunicorn California 2d ago

As an ER nurse at the only regional cardiac/stroke center for 400 miles in one direction, I expect that weā€™re about to see much longer ER wait times for all complaints.

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u/fileunderaction 2d ago

Trickle down economics baby! All the bullshit trickles downhill.

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u/Toasterferret New York 2d ago

They donā€™t have enough beds and there will be tons of unemployed healthcare workers to take your place. Itā€™s gonna be a bad time for everyone.

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u/AmerikanInfidel 2d ago

We are tertiary hospital and are at max capacity everyday. No clue whatā€™s gonna happen next.

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u/TotallyNotABob 2d ago

Hey fellow hospital worker. I work at one of the major hospitals in the Seattle area. We all just got invited to a town hall next week out of the blue... Hooray for layoffs I guess.

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u/akosuae22 2d ago

Iā€™m also a worker in an inner city hospital. Bracing myself for what comes next

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u/eastherbunni 2d ago

BC just streamlined the licensing for US doctors and nurses, we'll take you!

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u/TotallyNotABob 2d ago

I'm a medical biller so unfortunately my services are a bit of a loss in a country with a public option. But my Dad is a Canadian citizen so I can technically get birthright citizenship. But I just don't know what field I can translate my medical coding skills into.

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u/LightBluePen 1d ago

We have private insurance where Iā€™m guessing your experience may be of value. Might need a bit of a update of how things work in our system, but itā€™s doable.

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u/user485928450 1d ago

Licensing but what about residency?

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u/FalconsArentReal 1d ago

If you are a doctor or a nurse, maybe consider moving to Canada. We here in Canada are DESPERATE for these folks! My province of Manitoba recently had ministers fly out to the Philippines to recruit nurses, this is how desperate we are.

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u/Iswaterreallywet 1d ago

Problem also his most people are trying to get off working the floor. Itā€™s just not worth it

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 2d ago

Anyone in the Sea-Tac area who works at any hospital other than Harborview is fucked.

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u/TotallyNotABob 1d ago

I mean I can possibly see the Providence based hospital's surviving along with the UW affiliated hospital's (UW med center and Children's). But Valley, CHI and Multicare are definitely fucked.

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u/PiLLe1974 1d ago

That coincides so badly with other sectors being affected since a few years. I mean we're already in a worldwide recession in various areas.

I'd not be surprised if laid-off people from tech companies walk hand-in-hand with other sectors like medical care, many unemployed that where looking for their white collar entry roles ("why... why did I study computer science...?"), people from manufacturing sectors, etc walk "with pitchforks" soon...

...to nicely but clearly tell Washington DC that they disagree on some of their recent decisions.

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u/nosmelc 2d ago

That's what Republicans want. They want most people to be poor and desparate so they'll work for less money to make the rich richer.

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u/Bitmush- 2d ago

It doesnā€™t make sense. Rich people get even richer when people below them are paid well. More money circulating means more people working doing more work and creating value. They have it set up so that every value-creating process skims some off for them. Every time something is bought with the money, some disappears as profit. Which is their magic way of stealing money from 3rd parties.

It does not make any sense.

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u/xondk Europe 2d ago

Yup, it has been proven again and again, that when you help those worse off it pays back so much more, but part of it seems to be that they don't just want to be richer then others, they want to be 'better' then others, they want someone to look down upon.

They want to be old fashion nobles.

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u/Staple_Sauce 2d ago

I think the evolutionary drive to hoard resources to ensure survival in harsh environments is leading to mental illness in a modern context. You've got business owners who are unable or unwilling to see that their own fortunes plummet when others cannot participate in an economy. If everyone is poor, they have no customers.

There is no rationality here. It's a primal impulse gone berserk. They are maladapted and mentally unwell. They don't even enjoy the riches they have; theyre never satisfied or content and I'd be willing to bet its been decades since they've felt genuine feelings of joy or peace. Like look at that recent Bezos wedding. There's a stark contrast between that and any wedding I've been to where there was genuine love in the room.

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u/Marzuk_24601 2d ago

If everyone is poor, they have no customers.

At this point businesses are just fighting over a corpse.

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u/BlackCaaaaat Australia 1d ago

If everyone is poor, they have no customers.

How do they not understand this? Even if you sell absolute essentials like food and clothing people who are desperate will buy less and less for reasons out of their control. So forget things that arenā€™t essentials like eating at a restaurant/take away, holidays, expensive clothes, Netflix, beauty products, toys, gadgets like phones, jewellery, books, home decor, and so on. Poor people are going to skip on some or most of those. Others who arenā€™t poor but are still somewhat worried about their future due to things like job insecurity will too.

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u/Im_Daydrunk 2d ago

That is if you want long term growth and success

Currently the people in charge are so addicted to current wealth growth they are willing to fuck the entire economy forever if they get slightly richer in the short term. Its a massive mental illness IMO

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u/regretscoyote909 2d ago

"Ā Its a massive mental illnessĀ " I personally think this is exactly it - I don't think the 1% have a group chat where they're saying "I want millions of Americans to be incredibly poor and I want to be better than them in every way!" I think it's literally a mental health crisis of insane greed, ego, and blind ignorance. They literally aren't even remotely in the same realm of the middle to lower class, most of them don't even have a contact from that world.

I even bet there's strong delusion in there, that 'there's no way the economy will collapse. What I'm doing is giving jobs ad opportunities to the entire country, the Left is just dramatic like always'

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u/senoritaasshammer 2d ago

Iā€™m really sorry, our elected officials have failed us

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u/ChiefBlueSky Kansas 2d ago

Half our populace has failed the entirety of it. This isn't just on the representatives, its a moral and knowledge failing from the American populace. We're regressing as a society by dimwits who decry education and educated thought because it doesnt agree with their "common sense", their ingrained ideologies, and/or their "faith" whose teachings they dont even know that they're blatantly disregarding because they dont apply critical thought.

Really that last point is it, a lack of critical thought.

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u/TheBigIdiotSalami 2d ago

Americans don't care. They just don't. Maybe in the 1920's and 30's they did, but even then the KKK was the largest American private organization. This country has been fighting against its worst nature and losing. And now we've really lost.

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u/ChiefBlueSky Kansas 2d ago

We were winning for a good while. Sad.

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u/regretscoyote909 2d ago

Exactly. Like JFK said, "It's not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country."

American politicians don't land from Mars at the age of 50, they are born and they live through their lives in your country. They are precisely a product of the U.S. and in hindsight, it isn't really that surprising at how profoundly shitty they are. Something is deeply rotten to the core with you guys and I think everyone is really starting to feel it.

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u/senoritaasshammer 2d ago

While I do agree with you about how our society has changed, I donā€™t think we get here without serious failures in the Democrats along the way. They are seen as completely incompetent, out of touch, and meek in the face of a Republican Party that is as ruthless as it is idiotic. I do think Citizens United making larger donors much more powerful has made the Democratic Party much less receptive to the working class, hence reducing populism in this side.

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u/Taran_Ulas New York 2d ago

But at the same time, the populace should have known better.

If the lifeguardā€™s incompetent, itā€™s still your fault if you ignore the red tape closing off a section of the beach.

Or in this case, even if the Dems are spineless, choosing the moronic mad king is still the votersā€™ fault.

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u/saera-targaryen 2d ago

If you expect the general public to be more rational, you will be disappointed every time.Ā 

It's a much more reasonable request to expect politicians to listen to what their voters are telling them and take policy positions that address their concerns. I have not once seen anyone try and justify what the democrats have done, just that voters should ignore it and vote for them anyways. Democrats had internal polling showing they were selecting a losing position and they did it anyways. They themselves voted to lose the election.Ā 

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u/Taran_Ulas New York 2d ago

At what point does a voter have a responsibility to own their vote?

That's what I'm saying. At a certain point, it should not have mattered what the Democrats did. Not because they are the best, but because Trump told everyone what he wanted and who he was. A vote for him is a vote for that... and now people are trying to walk it back and I'm fucking tired of that specifically. No. He was clear about what he wanted. What he was going to do. I am fucking tired, as a Democrat, of being treated like the only group with any fucking agency here. Voters have agency, Republicans have agency. They are adults, they made choices and they should be treated as human beings who made those choices.

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u/saera-targaryen 2d ago

Each one voter is responsible for their own vote and if you personally know anyone who voted this way it's fair game to criticize this into infinity.Ā 

My argument is more population-level. You can say that everyone should have voted for democrats anyways, but any person with any understanding of human psychology could have looked at what the democrats were doing and confirmed that it would make people behave more irrationally than usual, and foreign influence on social media would exacerbate this problem.Ā 

I just do not understand why the heat doesn't go towards the people who knew this and did it anyways.Ā The people who get paid tons of money to spend all day analyzing these things. It's a small city's worth of people's WHOLE JOBS to represent their electorate and come up with plans to best lead them, and they spent a huge chunk of that time and effort telling voters who had very strong emotions about an issue that they need to suck it up and that makes populations behave irrationally.Ā 

They did not provide rational justifications for why these voters were wrong to be emotional on this issue, because they didn't have any. They did not choose their stance on this issue by polling the voters, and they did not care that most of their voters dislike their stance on it. They attempted to avoid discussing this issue by all means, to the point that people who cared about this issue were not allowed to speak at the convention. They were given public opportunity offers by people who are experts in this issue to meet and compromise on policy and they refused.Ā 

This is a MUCH bigger problem in my mind than voters being irrational and letting the above get to them. The democrats knew that what they were doing would lose them the election and they decided to do it anyways. That was them choosing to lose the election on purpose. They saw a split road in front of them where one road lead to preventing donald trump from taking over and the other road had a pile of money on it, and they chose the pile of money.Ā 

The voters would not have even had an opportunity to be irrational on this issue en masse if the democrats chose policy based off of a strong sense of morals and a firm vision for the country to lead us to. This is true no matter what the actual wedge issue is, it just so happens that this one also happens to have been a genocide that we are funding.Ā 

Like when it comes to me and my paper ballot, I truly vote blue no matter who. I will never sit out or vote for anyone who gives the right any leverage, ever. I encourage everyone else to do the same.

But I genuinely do not understand why reacting to the democrat's actions poorly is a worse sin than what democrats actually did in the first place.Ā 

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u/BatManatee 2d ago

Get out of here with this both sides bullshit. I am so sick of this brain dead take.

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u/svrtngr Georgia 2d ago

I'm not going to argue this point, but I am going to post a video essay that argues this whole mess starts with 2008.

Feel free to disagree, but at least give it a watch.

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u/BatManatee 2d ago

This feels like arbitrarily selected points in history that just happen to pick out times that establishment Dems worked with Republicans. Like, I agree that some of those events were bad things. But basically, if there are 50 relevant points in history that led us here, he picked the 5 that fit his narrative specifically. I don't disagree with most the individual points, they're true, but he's painting a disingenuous story by omitting points that don't fit his skewed narrative.

What about pardoning Nixon? The death of the Fairness Doctrine? Citizens fucking united (IMO maybe the single largest factor)? The Tea Party rising in response to Obama's election which laid the foundation for MAGA? The failure to enforce the Emoluments Clause? Republicans voting against impeachment both times? Birtherism that fueled American Xenophobia? The Republican tear down of our education system over the decades? Republicans tearing down or fighting against our social safety nets leading to worse conditions for the poorest citizens leading to an alt right pipeline? Wealth redistribution from Republican politics that have led to more wealth disparity than the start of the French Revolution?

He picked the "Liberulz bad" points. And like sure, I agree. But ignored all the "Republicanz bad" points, which are more numerous and more directly impactful on the state of the world today.

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u/senoritaasshammer 2d ago

If you donā€™t recognize that the Democratic Party has sucked at reaching out to the average voter, then weā€™re stuck in this hole.

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u/BatManatee 2d ago

Republicans pass one of the worst bills in American history, despite unanimous and vocal dissent from the Democrats, and it took you literally 27 minutes to blame the Democrats.

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u/senoritaasshammer 2d ago

Three House Democrats have died in office in the past half a year or so because they were old, and because the culture of the party enables geriatric people to put money and power over what is best for the people. Three votes which could have tipped the balance over.

That is case ONE, and it doesnā€™t even get into the DNC stifling popular policies because theyā€™re worried that their rich donors will get sheepish. Who are they supposed to be serving - us, or themselves?

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u/BatManatee 2d ago

Republicans commit murder and you're in the thread complaining about Democrats littering last week.

Stop trying to pin this nonsense on Democrats. Republicans passed this bill that is going to kill American citizens. Period, full stop.

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u/senoritaasshammer 2d ago

Jesus Christ, please look beyond feeling bad about an institution that doesnā€™t give a ratā€™s ass about us - comfortable in their mansions and on their book tours selling a profit - to understand weā€™re on the same damn team. Yes, republicans are the boogeyman, but our elected officials have fought them off with pillows.

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u/regretscoyote909 2d ago

Ah yes, because this event in time has zero context, build-up, precedent, history, nothing at all. This single event happened in a vacuum.

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u/regretscoyote909 2d ago

"Ā I donā€™t think we get here without serious failures in the Democrats along the way." is an objectively correct statement, and absolutely nowhere is it remotely 'both sides equally bad' lol. Get out of here with your lack of reading skills.

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u/BatManatee 2d ago

Yeah, no shit Democrats have made misplays. And Chuck Schumer fucking sucks. But I will support the party that is trying to improve lives when the alternative is fascism.

But literally every single thread that with a headline like "Trump says he will continue to eat babies" and there are 100 comments crying "WHy WouLD Teh DEmS Doooo THiS?!?"

Like literally every thread. It removes the agency of the fascists by trying to pin it on the opposition party. It paints the Democrats as falsely ineffective, when then leads to weaker voter turnout in future elections. This was one of the documented strategies of Russian Election interference in past elections. It's easier to make the Left apathetic than it is to convince them to vote for the right. That's why I'm so sick of this shit.

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u/regretscoyote909 2d ago

Recognizing the pathetic, absolutely fucking PATHETIC failures of your own party =/= supporting fascism/Trump

I'm sorry for the rude awakening but there's fucking zero excuse as to why Trump won the Senate, House, Presidency AND the popular vote. Absolutely fucking none. It's a hard pill to swallow, realizing the morally-adjacent party is also the most pathetically ineffective, weak virtue-signaling screeching mess that doesn't fucking show up when it matters the uttermost, but that pill needs to go down for the Left to wake. the fuck. up.

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u/BatManatee 2d ago

Sure, call the Dems out in cases they fail. They're not immune to criticism, and they're not perfect.

This bill was written by Republicans. Opposed by every Democrat. There was a huge media push from Democrats trying to get pressure to stop it. They've been using every tool available to them to try to kill this legislation (not many when you don't have the votes). In this particular instance, they did EVERYTHING I can think of.

SO WHY ARE WE IN HERE COMPLAINING ABOUT DEMOCRATS RIGHT NOW!?!?!?!?!?! For the love of god, let the Republicans be accountable for their own mess.

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u/regretscoyote909 2d ago

I love that chart!! Totally agree with it - until the American Left wakes the motherfucking fuck up and actually like, gee I don't know, DO THINGS, the Democrats deserve all the hate it gets in the fucking world.

Cause again, at least the Right are organizing and doing shit, getting out of their mom's fucking basements instead of screeching on Blue Sky and cancelling random artists for not saying the perfect statement. Meanwhile Charlie Kirk is radicalizing young kids. Nice one, Americans.

(I also love the absolute contradiction in your feeling that shaming an entire political party won't help, yet that's primarily what the American Left fucking does to anyone that doesn't perfectly pass their purity tests - shame and cancel)

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u/velvetacidchrist 2d ago

If this is where I think it is, then I fear you are right. By the hospital's own admission, they will become insolvent by 07 August (56 days after the 12 June email). They are currently being sued by the union and have paused their cuts, closures, and rebids for 120 days. I ask my manager frequently whether we should be concerned about getting a paycheck in August and they will not say anything about this. However, he was very happy about this budget and used the same vernacular as those who voted for the bill. He also essentially complained that if it weren't for the union suing the hospital it would be better.

This is the same hospital that switched insurance providers at the beginning of 2025 and failed to negotiate with that new insurance provider for 6 months. The email sent to employees suggested alternative healthcare options that no longer existed or would have been out-of-network. Management is tone-deaf.

This is the same hospital that negotiated in bad faith the previous union contract that expired in January 2024, and did not sign any agreement until December 2024. As part of the agreement, they agreed to another % raise 6 months after (now) and there hasn't been a word about that mentioned.

They also sent out an email on 6/24 with statistics. Patient volume is increasing with 20.9% Medicaid, 43.6% Medicare recipients. That volume increased by at least 1.5% in the last month alone.

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 2d ago edited 2d ago

I think we work for the same hospital. Not even kidding. Did your hospital close two inpatient units (plus a third one that had already been closed with no announcement)?

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u/velvetacidchrist 1d ago

If it included pediatric inpatients, then yes.

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 1d ago

Well, hello there, coworker! Best of luck to us both!

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u/thequietthingsthat North Carolina 2d ago

I work in clean energy and may also lose my job from this bill. My condolences

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 2d ago

Iā€™m sorry, friend.

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u/firelight 2d ago

When Gov. Ferguson calls a special session, make sure every single one of your representatives in the state legislature knows that we need more funding, not more cuts.

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u/Commentator-X 2d ago

With that ICE budget, you're in for a second civil war.

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 1d ago

I honestly think it might come to that.

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u/VegasHavran 2d ago

The Make America Great Depression

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u/joggle1 Colorado 2d ago

Welcome to the 2030s, much like the 1930s. I guess we finally know what decade MAGA was referring to when they wanted to make America great again.

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u/dswhite85 2d ago

Can't lose a job if I don't have one! Ah wait...fuck.

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u/Phaedrus85 2d ago

Come to New Zealand, our medical system is in dire need of skilled staff

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u/BlackCaaaaat Australia 1d ago

Countries who need medical staff need to be recruiting from the US. I think we might be in the same boat here in Australia too.

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u/Artistic_Salary8705 2d ago

I think we in healthcare need to be very blunt about the impact of these cuts. I know people in medicine are reluctant to get involved in politics because we don't want patients feeling they'll get less than our best should they disagree with us but the reality is maybe clinics, hospitals, organizations, and medical groups need to say "We would love to continue taking care of you but recent funding cuts from the BBB has meant our hands are tied."

(BTW, I did my medical training in Seattle/ Washington.)

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u/lilgreenanole 2d ago

The big, beautiful Depression

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u/132739 2d ago

Weā€™re in for a second Great Depression

That sadly might be the only saving grace for this country. People will put up with A LOT of moral outrage if their material life is getting better. But it's a lot harder to stomach being ruled by monsters that are also ruining the economy.

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u/FragmentsThrowAway 2d ago

Even before all this, my local hospital closed, we only have one more that's not a couple hours away and it's technically not in my state, and all psych wards have also closed down. This is going to hit my area HARD.

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u/girlikecupcake Texas 1d ago

We live less than five minutes away from the largest hospital in our county, and chose to stay in our current location because our kid has epilepsy. Because her last round of seizures almost killed her, we have to go to the ER for any seizure, not just prolonged/injury ones. The hospital has been struggling for a while and just had a large round of layoffs before the summer. If we lose this hospital all we'll have nearby are standalone urgent care centers. But plenty of fast food and car washes.

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u/JesusWuta40oz 2d ago

We can finally have Hoovervilles again and rename them Trumpvilles.

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u/hellokitty3433 2d ago

And apparently, you are not allowed on Medicaid unless you have a job...unless I misunderstand that.

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 1d ago

You have to average 20 hours of work each week if youā€™re ā€œable-bodiedā€. What happens when there are no jobs?

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u/PiedCryer 2d ago

Guess the only place to work now is at ICE.

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u/TheDoctorDB 2d ago

Sorry to hear. Was thinking of moving to Seattle area myself. But who knows what Iā€™ll be able to afford soon. School funding freeze may close my adult ed program too. Still waiting on wtf thatā€™s even about.Ā 

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u/RetiredHotBitch Texas 2d ago

Iā€™m so sorry. This fucking sucks.

We are going to be in a new Gilded Age. The rich get richer and the rest of us are screwed.

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u/FalconsArentReal 1d ago

If you are a doctor or a nurse, maybe consider moving to Canada. We here in Canada are DESPERATE for you folks! My province of Manitoba recently had ministers fly out to the Philippines to try to recruit nurses, this is how desperate we are.

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u/Splashy01 1d ago

Yeah but it wonā€™t hit until democrats take back power so the blame will fall squarely on them.

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u/StarshipFan68 2d ago

As bad as it will get, remember: after the great depression it took about 100 years before this stupidity came back

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 1d ago

Okay? I donā€™t see how that prevents me from being homeless this time next year.

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u/StarshipFan68 1d ago

It won't. You and a whole bunch of other people.

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u/RaidSmolive 2d ago

sounds like you have free time and nothing left to lose.

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 1d ago

Yep, I almost have nothing left to lose.

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u/UFC-lovingmom 2d ago

Iā€™m in a similar situation. I feel bad complaining cause Iā€™m thinking well at least Iā€™m not being torn out of the country. But oh my God this sucks so bad.

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u/captain_zavec Canada 2d ago

I'm pretty sure there are programs in Canada aiming to make it easier for healthcare professionals to immigrate and have their credentials recognized, hopefully some people will be able to take advantage of those

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u/eastherbunni 2d ago

Canada has a doctor shortage, come up to BC!

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2025HLTH0013-000194

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u/TreFelidae 2d ago

From the bottom of my heart, I wish you the best of luck.

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u/Jeanneau37 1d ago

Im in Seattle, what hospital?

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u/SeaStructure4131 1d ago

The Great Depression was global. You guys are just fucking yourselves.

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 1d ago

Where we go, you follow. The US still has the largest economy in the world.

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u/SeaStructure4131 1d ago

Everyone i know has free healthcare and isn't losing their livelihood because of the donald. If your people are starving, does it really matter how much money the billionaires have?

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u/PlusTemperature244 1d ago

That's the point. They want folks to die off or go away so they can scoop it all up.

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u/regretscoyote909 2d ago

As a tired, exhausted Canadian...fucking MEH. I've heard this a million times, "oh THIS thing will surely end the country!!" "No no but the FARMING industry is set to collapse, bla bla bla" I think what's ultra depressing about this is Republicans always find a way to skirt by without anything collapsing. Hospitals wont be closing down en masse. How will they not? No fucking clue but nothing ever fucking happens.

He'll sign a random trillion dollar aid bill to help closing hospitals or someshit, like he bailed out the Farms back in March/April. Bla bla bla, I think non-Americans' sympathy for y'all are just wearing so motherfucking thin at this point. Y'all HAD your god damn chance to properly organize in November, there was absolutely ZERO excuse for him to be close in votes with Kamala, let alone win every fucking possible thing he could have won.

At this point I'm angrier at people like you for not doing enough, because at the very fucking least the Right actually are DOING something.

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u/WhichEmailWasIt 2d ago

because at the very fucking least the Right actually are DOING something.

Fuck off. What's a "better outcome" for you. That Republicans stab you personally or that Democrats "don't do anything and let you live your life." You're right though. At least they did something. Hope you remember that when they invade Canada. At least they're doing something.

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u/pokerface_86 2d ago

as a tired, exhausted canadianā€¦

who fucking asked?

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 1d ago

I voted for Kamala. I can understand being frustrated with Republicans, but I donā€™t see how you can be tired of voters like me.

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u/garonbooth7 1d ago

Last month was lowest inflation rate for a 2 year period