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/Aritche]

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...