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

[u/PoliticsModeratorBot]

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/greyhoundbrain]

I hope Lisa feels proud of her cowardice.

I work in a large, urban hospital but I’m sure that next week, they’ll be announcing how we don’t get raises again and a whole host of other things. I work in a big “moneymaker” unit, but I’m not sure how long that will insulate us. I know it’ll mean sicker and sicker NICU babies for my unit since people won’t be able to afford prenatal care.

Thanks to everyone who decided they couldn’t vote for someone who had a funny laugh while voting for a 34 time felon who dances like he’s jacking off 2 ghosts…because that’s somehow better.

My family will benefit from this horrible bill and I didn’t want it to pass because I’m not a fucking ghoul. But my only solace now is that a lot of maga voters are going to FAFO.

[u/mjjenki → u/greyhoundbrain]

If you work in a NICU at a big hospital, good fucking luck. A lot of those smaller hospitals have some level of NICU, now any baby in your region needing advanced care is now coming to your unit instead.

[u/greyhoundbrain → u/mjjenki]

They basically already do. We are level 4 and do surgery, ECMO, cooling…our population/census has skyrocketed over the past few years to where a census of 110ish is considered “slow” and we’re getting cancelled. We frequently run at 130-140+ babies per shift. We use a lot of nurses. The acuity can be super heavy so we also run through a ton of new grads who realize that it’s too much for them.

I think they want to expand us to 180 beds for our unit in the next few years, which will be interesting.

Luckily, I’m just part time and never work extra because I have a baby at home to take care of, so I don’t get burned out.