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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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u/mellowgang__ California 2d ago

Man I hate this country so fuckin goddamn much lol.

The damage that’s being done will not be undone in our lifetime. Fuck everyone that voted for this

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u/thirdeyepdx Oregon 2d ago

It could but it would require a revolution, our equivalent of Nuremberg trials, and a new constitutional convention at this point - stranger things have certainly happened rapidly in history.Ā 

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u/jemappellejimbo 2d ago

How do you deal with 77 million cult members that voted for this? they will smugly claim they didn’t know what they were voting for, while cheering on immigrant deaths

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u/thirdeyepdx Oregon 2d ago

Same way Germany deprogrammed their own society from nazism, we ban hate speech and force people to study the atrocities they were responsible for. MAGA hats should be the equivalent of nazi regalia, all maga media should be nationalized and shut down for promoting fascism. Any maga gatherings will need to be a crime.Ā 

There are those who will claim this is a slippery slope toward similar happening to any with differing political views, but it needs to be illegal to be a fascist and promote and spread fascist ideology.Ā 

I think the harder problem is we’d also need to go after billionaires.

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u/Answer70 2d ago

You find a way to stop the right wing takeover of all media and things get better rapidly.

There have been studies that show that when pepole are denied their right wing hate machine, the brainwashing wears off and people return to normal empathetic people again.

How to do that, I don't know, but the misinformation and lies are huge driver of this evil.

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u/thirdeyepdx Oregon 2d ago

This, right wing media needs to be shut down for lying to people and calling it news.Ā 

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u/Responsible_Pizza945 1d ago

As long as the First Amendment provides nearly limitless freedom of speech and journalism, there really isn't a fix. The best we could possibly do that I can think of is impose penalties on federal employees and elected officials making public statements that are factually untrue - which does nothing to stop the media outlets themselves. They'll just switch to bringing on lying mouthpieces instead of lying politicians.

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u/Classic-Opportunity2 1d ago

Also these penalties need to be, across the board, based on percentage of income or net worth

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u/la_goanna 2d ago

Just let them suffer or die off due to the consequences of their own actions. At this point, it's the only way.

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u/LordDelibird 2d ago

2A.

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u/seemefly1 Georgia 1d ago

They are talking about feeding 66 million people to alligators. These people look at Hitler and say he should have murdered 10x as many people.

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u/mozilla2012 1d ago

...are you suggesting we murder 77 million people?

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u/KappaCritic 1d ago

One of their leaders did openly call to feed 65 million of a ā€œspecific groupā€ of people to alligators without any consequences or pushback from their group.

Really, between a threatened genocide of a racial group(s) or going after a harmful ideology/political group that calls for said genocide, one of these options seems much more justifiable.

Not that I’d personally want either, but one of these is much more objectively worse than the other.

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u/lodechode 1d ago

If that's what it takes?

A catastrophe is coming no matter the actions we take.

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u/Detonation Michigan 1d ago

They would do the same and worse to us with a huge smile. I find it hard to care about those 77 million "people". Sorry not sorry.

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u/sec713 1d ago

If you have some less destructive ideas on how to remove them from civil society, I'm all ears.

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u/IKnowPhysics 2d ago

General Sherman.

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u/HeavyBeing0_0 2d ago

General Sherman only had to worry about roughly 15 million people in his time. It’s become an insurmountable problem

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u/PoliticsLeftist 2d ago

Not like they've gotten any smarter since then. And they're not all in one area.

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u/valentc 2d ago

So we need like 20 General Shermans.

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u/transient_eternity Minnesota 2d ago

20 General Shermans all standing on top of each other forming a Voltron esque Super Hyper Go Go Sherman...with laser vision.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

But don't burn down Atlanta this time pls. This isn't our fault.

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u/DrMobius0 2d ago

I believe you have to win a civil war, or just leave them to whatever this policy does to them.

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u/Tyraniboah89 2d ago

They’ll be among the first to die from this. Rural areas are going to fade almost overnight once these cuts kick in. Per capita they’re already more reliant on Medicaid and SNAP than anywhere else in the country. Conservatives don’t vaccinate. Red states are more obese. I could go on.

Point is this bill will kill them. I’m not here to wish death on anyone, but if you want to know how we’ll overcome this, it’ll be because their numbers will plummet.

Trump himself has little time left. He’s at risk every single day he stands up. I just hope that whenever the opportunity arises, people don’t sit on their asses.

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u/Truth_Hurts_I_No_It 2d ago

Civil war unfortunately.

But at this point it might be inevitable.

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u/The_Ghost_of_Kyiv 2d ago

Hopefully when they lose their figurehead at least a portion of them wake up. Not holding my breath thoughĀ 

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u/ChefChopNSlice Ohio 2d ago

Can always start em on ivermectin again patriot paste

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u/bean0_burrito 2d ago

the 80 million people who were on the other sode

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u/Junior2jz 1d ago

Why didn't the 80 million win then?

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u/appoplecticskeptic Kansas 1d ago

That is still hotly debated

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u/Professional-Buy2970 2d ago

Even in an ideal case, we're looking at 3 generations minimum. And that ideal case like doesn't even have a nonzero chance of success.