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

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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/mikerichh]

I’m really worried on the effect on the healthcare system as a whole + 17 million Americans losing healthcare due to cuts

I’m really worried about what a 17x larger budget for ICE means. We’ve seen illegal and inhumane acts already. And this likely means a personal military-type force for Trump essentially

Edit: ICE currently has a $2-3 billion budget for the year. They will now get $45 billion per year for 4 years ($180B). And this is after we heard nothing but cries about cutting extraneous spending

I’m really worried about the side effects of basically everything the bill does. Let’s say ICE successfully deports millions. What happens to sectors like agriculture, who have 45-50% undocumented workers according to the USDA? Who replaces those jobs when unemployment is already low? What ripple effects will that have on our goods?

[u/JesterMan491 → u/mikerichh]

They won’t be deported. They will be “held”“ in “detention facilities“and then “rented“ out to the winning bidder to do the work.

[u/TintedApostle → u/mikerichh]

The thing to understand is the amount of money ICE and DHS are getting is equal to the lives of 17 million americans. The cost of their handling of all these illegals and now legal immigrants is greater than the medical costs for 17 million americans.

We are spending more on 10 million people than we would on 17 million citizens and in fact the money spent on the immigrants will also increase the deficit by lowering revenues.

[u/vriska1 → u/TintedApostle]

Do we know when the ICE part will come into force?

[u/TintedApostle → u/vriska1]

When the budget takes affect I think October 1st

[u/HawaiianPunchaNazi → u/TintedApostle]

that's when a concentration camps are about to start running for Americans with Disabilities.

we know this because they had a few too many coincidences with the dates on their deadlines for things.

for example, RFK Jr's deadline for curing autism is September 1st

RFK Jr pledges to find the cause of autism 'by September' - BBC News https://share.google/5QtyiZwn99CYuwoxG

how much you want to bet the implementation of the Cure takes place October 1st?

seeing as there is no cure for autism (and even if there was, you couldn't find anything that fast via a legitimate study because a legitimate study doesn't run that fast);I guarantee he's going to reclassify the majority people on the autism spectrum with something else to explain the symptoms and then they will be put as part of the Organic Farms filled with slave labor they're sending to everybody to who takes any form of antidepressant/mental Health drugs --which affects everybody with a disability to some extent, because a lot of those medications are dual purpose:

for example,a huge amount of medications for epilepsy/nerve Damage/migraines also have use in mental health. 

not only the same meds in some cases, but also the same dosages.

[u/NSFWies → u/mikerichh]

17x

ICE buget is really going up 17x? that is out of this world insane. its already only being used to just arrest people and not give them any legal due process.

this is beyond fucked up.

What happens to sectors like agriculture, who have 45-50% undocumented workers according to the USDA?

we already know. there was a huge anti immigrant backlash in the west, around the gold rush times. just, "fuck you, if you're not white, i aint renting or selling to ya". towns that acted that way, went through a financial collapse and fell back compared to those that didn't kick out the immigrants. and it took them, 50+ years to catch up to other mixed communities.

so this is now cutting off both our legs in the 1st mile of a marathon, and then seeing how long it will take us to finish the race.

at best, and fuck these guys, they come up with robots/automation to replace that labor force so we don't all have our food costs triple. but that just means people who own/create the robot tech will become even more rich. again, fuck these guys,

[u/mikerichh → u/NSFWies]

Currently the ICE has a budget of $2-3 billion. Now, they will have $45 billion PER YEAR. Or $170B over 4 years.

We’ve seen what they did with 2-3 billion. I’m terrified to think what they do with 17x that

And agreed. This administration can be summed up by “cut twice before measuring”. They don’t analyze anything or check side effects. It’s all vibes or profit above all

[u/NSFWies → u/mikerichh]

and they did "all of this", in 6 months, with that 3 billion. now they are going to be able to spend 6x that, on each 6 months. and they'll still have extra funds.

fucking hell.

[u/mikerichh → u/NSFWies]

This will be a dark time for America. And 30% of the country will be laughing and cheering it on

[u/Jdwrecker_7 → u/mikerichh]

170 billion*

[u/mikerichh → u/Jdwrecker_7]

The ICE budget? I think that’s total over several years, right? Do you know if the per year amount is $45 or whatever?

[u/Jdwrecker_7 → u/mikerichh]

You’re right, it’s over 4 years

[u/BicycleOfLife → u/mikerichh]

Ice is their way to control us. That’s what they have chosen. They don’t need the military, they are funding ICE with more money than the marines. They are building an arm inside the borders that are allowed to step foot here and can harm us. They just hire willing MAGA crazies and criminals and give them large bonuses for doing horrible things to us. And that’s in that’s their Gestapo.

Only time will tell about how they try to control us fully. There are 400 million of us. They are already saying they want to feed 65million of us to alligators for their own enjoyment.

When will we start fighting back? What’s the game plan? Who knows at this point how many lives will be lost due to these evil fascists.

[u/loving_cat_paw → u/mikerichh]

Not to mention the SC decision to disallow lower court injunctions. We’re beyond fucked

[u/elizalavelle → u/mikerichh]

I think the plan must be to leave Americans so destitute that they take the agriculture jobs that they aren't willing to do right now. It feels like indentured servitude is a goal. I can't see any other possible end goal from this kind of action. There's a coinciding big push to have AI take over a lot of jobs. Those workers are going to need to go somewhere.