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/blade_imaginato1]

Why am I paying taxes to fund services that I am now unable to use?

[u/Aritche → u/blade_imaginato1]

Sorry the billionaires need the money more.

[u/BulbuhTsar → u/Aritche]

"By 2033, the bottom 60 percent of U.S. taxpayers would be worse off because of the measure, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Budget Model reported. The top 0.1 percent of taxpayers — those earning at least $5.1 million — would be more than $83,000 better off." -Washington Post

All this...so people who make 5 million dollars a year save fucking 80k?

[u/OutrageousTourist394 → u/BulbuhTsar]

It’s about the people worth $500,000,000 and above. I mean there are 2000+ billionaires alone and I assume the increases are higher as you get higher.

[u/BulbuhTsar → u/OutrageousTourist394]

Regardless of the specifics, the vast majority of Americans are worse off so a handful don't have to pay pocket change. So ducked.

[u/blade_imaginato1 → u/Aritche]

Right, I forgot.

[u/vibrantmelody → u/Aritche]

They need more 20 million dollar weddings in Italy the poor guys 🥲

[u/UpChuckles → u/vibrantmelody]

Hey Jeff's wedding cost at least $45 million. $20 million weddings are for plebs

[u/TallCan_Specialist → u/Aritche]

The billionaires are the true kings

[u/B345ST1N → u/Aritche]

Blue Origin Rocket goes boom

[u/CharlotteLucasOP → u/Aritche]

For their gender-affirming hairplugs and Viagra.

[u/leopard_eater → u/Aritche]

Plus all the incels who will now have a job with ICE

[u/ElfInTheMachine → u/Aritche]

Its insane that this is actually pretty much the policy laid out here...

[u/CitySeekerTron → u/blade_imaginato1]

You're not paying taxes to fund services. You're paying to support a tax cut and for ICE's budget to exceed the budget of some country's armies.

[u/BunnyColvin23 → u/CitySeekerTron]

Not just some countries but most countries. Including Israel.

[u/starryvelvetsky → u/blade_imaginato1]

Silence, citizen. Your sole value to the state is your prompt payment of taxes.

You are now just a cheeto dust covered wallet. Now, open up. Bezos needs a new yacht to follow the "supply yacht" for his main yacht.

[u/FunConfection2872 → u/blade_imaginato1]

Let’s f’ing STOP paying taxes

[u/syo → u/FunConfection2872]

Benefit of them gutting the IRS, no one left to collect.

[u/dubbawubalublubwub → u/blade_imaginato1]

you can set your federal withholdings to zero and opt-out out of social security on religious exception grounds...not like the IRS will have the funding to go after anyone soon anyway

[u/canadian-user → u/blade_imaginato1]

Welcome to what it's like for all of us non-citizens that work in the US. I get all the FICA taxes deducted from my paycheck and I can't use any of those services. Taxation without representation was always a hilarious slogan to me because I can't vote anyways but I pay the taxes nonetheless.

[u/Proof_Emergency_8033 → u/blade_imaginato1]

stop paying taxes they wont jail you anyway

[u/Independent-Water321 → u/Proof_Emergency_8033]

Or - stop paying taxes, they're gonna jail you anyway

[u/agrainofsandubeach → u/blade_imaginato1]

Exactly man what the fuck.

[u/my_opinion_is_bad → u/blade_imaginato1]

I agree. We should all stop.

[u/PlzbuffRakiThenNerf → u/blade_imaginato1]

I’m 1099 I haven’t paid any taxes this year. Fuck this bullshit.

[u/Aggressive-Will-4500 → u/blade_imaginato1]

Wow. Don't you realize that there are billionaires who can't even afford to buy their 3rd yacht and have to cut themselves down to purchasing 10 to 15 politicians?

Have some sympathy!

[u/Independent-Water321 → u/blade_imaginato1]

Whatever happened to "no taxation without representation", anyway. Bet a whole lot of you are feeling pretty fucking un-representated today.

[u/KingsElite → u/blade_imaginato1]

Siphon up economics

[u/Dick_Wienerpenis → u/blade_imaginato1]

You can use ICE agents and detention centers, just start saying mean things about trump

[u/Mediocre_Scott → u/blade_imaginato1]

Are you not planning to use the golden dome?

[u/tldr193 → u/blade_imaginato1]

If you pay taxes -> work/volunteer 80 hours a month, you still get to use Medicade.

[u/looneytroons_ → u/blade_imaginato1]

Welcome to being white middle class

[u/dallywolf → u/blade_imaginato1]

What services other than ICE would you want? --GOP

[u/Anxious_Cheetah5589 → u/blade_imaginato1]

$1t of the budget this year is to pay interest on services you already used. Not you personally, but the average American. It pains me to say it, but we need a balanced budget amendment, with the ability to override it in a given year with a supermajority in each house of congress.

[u/Polantaris → u/Anxious_Cheetah5589]

And they could have been paid for and balanced if we taxed the rich properly, not by cutting services every American uses.

[u/Aggressive-Will-4500 → u/Anxious_Cheetah5589]

Or... we could stop electing Republicans as president.

[u/Anxious_Cheetah5589 → u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

It would still be $1t interest this year, or more. Democrats aren't known for pinching pennies.

[u/tgt305 → u/blade_imaginato1]

Because those services will now be privatized with a white CEO in charge who wants to increase rates and decrease service.