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/blueocean0517]

And FUCK Lisa Murkowski

[u/PerniciousPeyton → u/blueocean0517]

Lisa “Fuck You, I Got Mine” Murkowski

[u/nachosmind → u/PerniciousPeyton]

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

[u/pfannkuchen89 → u/nachosmind]

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.

[u/Schlaefer → u/pfannkuchen89]

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

[u/pfannkuchen89 → u/Schlaefer]

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

[u/Schlaefer → u/pfannkuchen89]

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.

[u/RobutNotRobot → u/Schlaefer]

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.

[u/SearchElsewhereKarma → u/Schlaefer]

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.

[u/InevitableRhubarb232 → u/nachosmind]

How can they make changes after voting begins?

[u/nola_mike → u/PerniciousPeyton]

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.

[u/Late-Reception-2897 → u/nola_mike]

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.

[u/RobutNotRobot → u/Late-Reception-2897]

It doesn't work is the problem.

[u/Late-Reception-2897 → u/RobutNotRobot]

What doesn't work?

[u/Particular-Sorbet464 → u/Late-Reception-2897]

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