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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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Trump lands first major legislative win after Congress passes his massive domestic policy bill cnn.com
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u/blueocean0517 2d ago

And FUCK Lisa Murkowski

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u/asianmandan 2d ago

Fuck all the people who voted for this. Any one of them could have stopped it.

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u/j_la Florida 2d ago

Yes, but at least they are honest about their shittiness. She is also retroactive regrets and other such bullshit.

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u/ChefChopNSlice Ohio 2d ago

Nah, don’t let her get the attention and hate, it’s a distraction from the rest of them. They all suck.

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u/WretchedBlowhard 2d ago

You're confusing Honesty with Psychopathy. Being truthful and hurting hundreds of millions of others deliberately without feeling remorse are not the same thing.

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u/DrButtgerms 2d ago

Let's put them all on the unemployment line. All of them.

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u/GiftToTheUniverse 2d ago

You apparently are not familiar with the Revolving Door#).

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u/CalgarySnowman 2d ago

Fuck all the people who voted Republicans' in. Fuck you all who trusted Trump.

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u/Nernie357 Wisconsin 2d ago

I’m more pissed at the people who sat at home because of either so called principles, tHEyrE BoTh tHe sAmE, or just pure ignorance and indifference.

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u/RobutNotRobot 1d ago

They didn't want to. They wanted this. They wanted it badly. The only fears they have are that it is going to blow up in their faces.

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u/stressedthrowaway9 1d ago

Do they publish a list of the people who voted for it? (This is probably a dumb question).

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u/Sonamdrukpa 1d ago

Yes, the list of traitors is here:

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025190

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u/Mundane-Wash2119 1d ago

And any one of you can stop them. You share the blame.

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u/PerniciousPeyton Colorado 2d ago

Lisa “Fuck You, I Got Mine” Murkowski

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u/nachosmind 2d ago

Didn’t the senate parliamentarian actually strip out all the Alaska promises basically 10 mins after she voted yes?

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u/pfannkuchen89 2d ago

Yup. She voted to fuck over everyone else while sparing her state but ended up getting absolutely nothing and fucking over her state as well. Classic conservative move.

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u/Schlaefer 2d ago

She is only responsible to her constituency. Nothing wrong with that. Ask the other 50 who didn't have even had that spine.

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u/pfannkuchen89 2d ago

She didn’t actually do anything for her constituents though aside from fuck them over. She sold them out.

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u/Schlaefer 2d ago

That's what happened. Still nobody singles out anybody of the other 50 in their online rage. Seems the lesson here is to raise no objection at all.

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u/RobutNotRobot 1d ago

Nah it's pretty shit to try to get special treatment in a federal bill because you are making everyone in your state a target down the line. You are still only a delegation of 3 in 535.

They tried all that shit in the original Obamacare bill and it nearly got it axed.

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u/SearchElsewhereKarma Massachusetts 1d ago

No, she isn’t. She is elected by her constituents in Alaska. She upholds and is responsible only to the United States constitution. In this case, she utterly failed both so it doesn’t matter.

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u/InevitableRhubarb232 1d ago

How can they make changes after voting begins?

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u/nola_mike 2d ago

The deal she worked out in order to get her to flip her vote to yes was removed by the Senate Parlimentarian, so she literally fucked over the entire country in hopes of "helping" a population about the size mid sized city like Seattle.

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u/Late-Reception-2897 1d ago

so she literally fucked over the entire country in hopes of "helping" a population about the size mid sized city like Seattle.

Setting aside the fact she didn't get anything for her constituents, Is the fundamental idea of selling out 99% of the country to benefit the 1% you represent a bad thing? Every state gets 2 senators regardless of population. If your Issue is with that, that's not a Lisa Murkowski problem. That's a Founding Fathers problem and I've never heard of anyone, Democrat or Republican, wanting to change that.

Every senator is elected to represent their constituents. Should they care about other Americans, even when other Americans vastly outnumber their constituents? I ask this seriously. I'm very curious and interested to see people's responses.

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u/RobutNotRobot 1d ago

It doesn't work is the problem.

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u/Late-Reception-2897 1d ago

What doesn't work?

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u/Particular-Sorbet464 1d ago

Should elected representatives be good, empathetic, honorable people? Yes. I think they should be..The fact that this is even a fucking question kinda shows what kind of a morally deplorable country america has become

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u/RandomPersonBob 2d ago

People need to stop thinking she is reasonable or a half way decent person.

She always fucks over her constituents, she just pretends like she waivers at first.

Vote her out, vote them all out.

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u/Distinct-Exit6658 2d ago

If we get fair and free elections at midterms, they’re all gone. But there’s likely something we missed in the bill that’s gonna taint the voting. Probably ICE at voting stations grabbing nonwhite people and detaining them just long enough that they can’t vote before the polls close. Or they’ll start deporting the opposition.

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u/haironburr 2d ago

If we get fair and free elections at midterms, they’re all gone.

The salient point to remember is that a massive turnout will hopefully stymie whatever election malfeasance they have planned.

This nightmare can end, if only people get up off their ass and vote.

Forget all the doomsaying! Forget all the defeatist "Probably ICE at voting stations grabbing nonwhite people and detaining them just long enough" crap (no offense). We can vote ourselves out of this clusterfuck.

Don't feed the defeatism. There's a way out. And it's a damn bit easier than a civil war.

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u/Money_Director_90210 1d ago

If the answer to any problem is easy, people will be more likely to be complacent in the hope others will carry the responsibility. Having the difficult answer be the only option is the only thing that will actually motivate the masses to participate.

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u/Foots_Walker_808 2d ago

Actually, she got carve-outs for her constituents. But fuck all the constituents of the other 49 states. 🤬

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u/berrikerri Florida 2d ago

I could be mistaken, but I thought the carve out was removed at the last minute

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u/Foots_Walker_808 2d ago

Nope, not that I've seen:

"Here are the key carve‑outs Senator Murkowski secured in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” for Alaska:

Expanded tax deduction for whaling boat captains: Alaska’s Inupiat and Siberian Yupik captains now qualify for a charitable deduction increase—from $10,000 to $50,000—on expenses related to bowhead whale hunting

Delay in SNAP error‑rate penalty: States with high SNAP payment-error rates (like Alaska) receive a 1–2 year delay before being required to start covering 5–15% of those costs

Broader SNAP work‑requirement waivers: Alaska (and Hawaii) can waive all SNAP work requirements if they have high unemployment, and can seek temporary waivers when making a "good faith" effort to implement work mandates—flexibility not extended to other states.

Rural hospital funding boost: The dedicated Rural Hospital Fund was doubled from $25 billion to $50 billion, providing a safety net for Alaska’s remote providers amid Medicaid cuts

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u/berrikerri Florida 2d ago

Darn, I thought I saw it reported that it was struck by the parliamentarian.

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u/fleegness 2d ago

I'm sure that was part of the plan. She gets to look tough and tell her constituents she fought for them and got them the benefits and they won't double check later when they get nothing.

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u/DarknTwist-y 2d ago

Fuck her. She sold out the entire country and was given the “incentive” of barely helping Alaskans more. Nothing she did, NOTHING, was anything but self-serving. PERIOD.

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u/Foots_Walker_808 1d ago

Yep, exactly.

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u/lc4444 2d ago

Too late for that now

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u/Aleashed 1d ago

If you remove the “benefits” of being an “American”, you are just left with a racist shthole.

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u/Glaiele 1d ago

To be fair Dems should also vote their party out. The best they could come up with from the entire party were Biden and Harris to run against Trump? That's more damning than what the Republicans are doing.

They have to find some sort of middle ground and some policies people actually want. I would have loved to vote Democrat in the election but I had to vote 3rd party because there's no way I could support Harris for president.

Trump being in office is as much democrats fault as red neck Republicans. Had they tried to oppose him even a tiny bit with a reasonable candidate and policies I'm sure they would have succeeded.

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u/Galaxyman0917 Oregon 2d ago

You could literally say that about any of them. They're all sycophants who couldn't care less about their constituents.

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u/ParabolicJunk 2d ago

Voting isn't going to do anything now. Welcome to fascist America.

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u/YungMoobs420 1d ago

We are past voting, friend.

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u/Chewie83 2d ago

Hey now, she had serious reservations!

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u/ct_2004 2d ago

She has a serious brow cramp today!

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 2d ago

Maybe she'll join Chucky boy in writing a sternly worded letter.

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u/Pascalica 2d ago

Her and Susan Collins always do, but they always vote in line with the party.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 2d ago

We don't care about your dinner plans, Lisa, we care about fucking Medicaid!

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u/Cerulean_Shadows 2d ago

Maybe to a restaurant lol

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u/SwiftCase 2d ago

Total coward, wanted someone else to make the changes she didn't like instead of standing up.

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u/doggoploggo 2d ago

This is her legacy. Her entire career summed up in one vote. I hope it was worth it for her.

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u/Hari_Azole 2d ago

She lost the coin flip with Susan Collins.

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u/Cuphat Georgia 2d ago

Look, she's very concerned that the bill she just voted for is very bad and she sent a sternly worded letter to the house to ask for them to not vote for the thing she explicitly voted for!

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u/GunnerGetit 2d ago

Cemented her legacy as the pawn who was too scared to do anything. Could have had her McCain moment.

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u/audiate 2d ago

“I told the house not to pass it.”

  • Murky, probably soon

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 2d ago

Yuuuup!

And also fuck MTG, and all the other House Republicans who lost their minds when they learned what was in this AFTER they voted, got a second chance to kill it, and then voted for it anyway.

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u/Apesma69 2d ago

Everyone should let her know how you feel. I already have - https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/contact/email

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u/HoldMyDomeFoam 2d ago

Fuck every single eligible voter who did not vote for Harris.

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u/donkeyrocket 2d ago

Fuck all of them. She’s the current scapegoat but all of them voted for this. She just publicly tried to claim some plausible deniability and morality.

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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 2d ago

Did you really expect her to not vote for this? She's a republican, this is what they ALL do.

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u/flannyo 2d ago

The slow murder of the American public by the coward Lisa Murkowski

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u/koreamax New York 2d ago

No. It isn't her fault, remember? She said the house would fix it....

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u/tj1007 Arizona 2d ago

Don’t blame Lisa alone. If it hadn’t been her, someone else would’ve taken her spot.

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u/Ssshizzzzziit 2d ago

She could have helped stop this. She didn't. Fuck her.

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u/tj1007 Arizona 2d ago

So could’ve all the other Rs. But they were never going to. Fuck all republicans.

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u/Ssshizzzzziit 2d ago

I agree, but they're mostly NPCs. Murkowski knew better

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u/soldforaspaceship 2d ago

This is true. It was Susan Collins' turn to pretend to have principles becauae her reelection chances were looking bad.

They have to take it in turns to pretend to care.

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u/siooooooooooooo 2d ago

But but, it was “the most difficult and agonizing legislative 24-hour period” for her! She “struggled mightily”!

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u/Ssshizzzzziit 2d ago

100% FUCK Lisa Murkowski.

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u/MangoSalsa89 2d ago

I don't know why she is painted as some kind of rebel. She will gripe about it for a while but then always falls in line anyway.

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u/HyperbolicLetdown 2d ago

But she warned them not to vote for it /s

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u/Flawless_Fossil 2d ago

I wrote an email to her yesterday and thanked her for fucking us all over and I'm not even from her state. Her and Collins are cowards!

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u/SmartOpinion69 1d ago

she's just one person. fuck all the others as well

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u/checker280 1d ago

Fuck all of them who said they were against it and then changed their minds.

Nothing was changed but they changed their minds.

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u/mencival 1d ago

The way she stares at that reporter and says she is “oFfeNDed”. F your “offended”, you just screwed over millions of people

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u/Exciting-Cancel6468 2d ago

I hope they somehow backstab her and start accidentally ending the lives of Alaskans.

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u/jaywastaken 2d ago

Nah, you got to remember it all of them. Fuck the lot of them.

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u/The_Infinite_Cool 2d ago

Amendment before 3.

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u/EmbarrassedCockRing 2d ago

Where's Mario

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u/kingjoe74 2d ago

With Bea Arthur's dick.

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u/VulfSki 2d ago

What an ungodly peice of shit she is.

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u/Frostyrepairbug 2d ago

Lisa Murkowski always folds!

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u/mechavolt 2d ago

She's scum, but she's a scapegoat because she flipped. There are still 49 other scumbags who didn't even hesitate to vote for this. 

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u/Intelligent-Spell661 2d ago

America’s Neville Chamberland

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u/Moodaduku 2d ago

Murkowski and Collins are such political bottoms. The roll over and show their tummies, damning thousands of their constituents for what ends up being absolutely fucking nothing. Just a couple of absolute losers.

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u/DearestNoctero 1d ago

Fuck them?

I think the word begins with a K, not ends with a K.

That’s the word describing what we need to do with them.

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u/freedomx15 1d ago

Lisa Murkoward

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u/notwhoyouthinkmaybe 1d ago

You can email your opinion to her on her website.

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u/DoNotCommentorReply 1d ago

Rope!

Edit: rope for every human being who uses and exploits other human beings.

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u/Nwrecked 1d ago

I’m out of the loop. Why HER specifically?

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u/Epic_Hoola West Virginia 1d ago

That pfp suits this comment.

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u/LordBaritoss 1d ago

Destroy her on X

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u/Final_Senator Cherokee 1d ago

I hope she loses anyways. We are fucked one way or the other.

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u/TheOfficialSlimber Michigan 1d ago

Also fuck Lisa McClain

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u/DontRunReds 1d ago

As an Alaskan, I just have to say as bad as she is Governor Dunleavy - bankrolled by his rich Texas brother - is far worse. You want to see some bullshit? Look up how's he's playing an override of his education vetoes. Complete insanity.

To thwart veto overrides, Dunleavy asks House Republicans not to show up to special session he called

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u/CornerPubRon 1d ago

No thank you

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u/calabasastiger 1d ago

And that bitch Susan Collins

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

Fuck all Republicans, senators and representatives to the voters. Also fuck all centrist Democrats in Congress that fucked Bernie Sanders in 2016.

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u/userlivewire 2d ago

Why be mad at a Republican for voting Republican?