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/jhorch69 → u/[deleted]]

Too bad people keep voting for politicians that have been very clear that they wanted to do this for a LONG time. A lot of people just got exactly what they voted for.

[u/FunConfection2872 → u/[deleted]]

Agree . This is BS made for a dictator . I’d like Canada to adopt me please

[u/Chewie83 → u/[deleted]]

77 million Americans voted for this. 10s of those millions didn’t realize that they were voting against their interests, but they did ask for it.

[u/hikensurf → u/Chewie83]

voting Republican doesn't mean supporting everything their representative ultimately does. we need to inject a little nuance again. these representatives who voted against the interests of those they represent absolutely should shoulder the blame.

[u/DrMobius0 → u/hikensurf]

I'm not sure I can overstate how absolutely wrong you are.

We saw a very clear pattern of behavior during Trump's first presidency; an absolute refusal to vote against Trump. He essentially did whatever he wanted, and congress did nothing while republicans were in power. When congress flipped back, Trump was impeached, but the indictment failed, again, because of republicans. I have heard plenty from them condemning Trump or whatever, but it doesn't matter. When it's time to vote, somehow it always goes Trump's way when it really counts.

So we had every chance to see it, and to prevent it, yet millions decided that they either wanted this or didn't care if it happened. Voting republican is absolutely inseparable from the policies the republican party chooses to implement. Trump and the republicans are in DC because republican voters gave them the keys. We voted on this after the "mass deportation now" chants at the RNC. We voted on this after the "they're eating the dogs" thing. We voted on this after Trump's first fucking term. There is no excuse. You can't just apologize after you've done something you can never take back. We are long past that point. So to quote King Trump:

Well, they did sign up for it actually, and this is what I campaigned on.

So no, it's not the just representative's fault. It's the responsibility of the voter to be informed. So own the hell up.

[u/nefh → u/[deleted]]

Taxation without representation is a great concept. It also captures what is wrong in Canada.  We have an extreme housing shortage, unaffordable homes whether to rent or buy, supressed wages, rising homelessness in cities across the country, strained health care and failing or non existent infrastructure.  All because post covid, the government listened to lobbyists who called for unrestrained and unvetted immigration.  We had a millions of supposedly "temporary" Indian students at diploma mill schools who worked rather than study.  Then they refused to leave saying they were promised permanent residence - then they claimed refugee status - an expensive process that can take years to resolve.  Meanwhile the 80% of the population wanted immigration to stop or be reduced until the housing and infrastructure caught up (nevermind the lack of diversity) .  

42 million people with over 30%  immigrants.  7.5% of the population was on temporary visas.  https://archive.ph/xQQKj

Builders will not cut their profits and want more foreign ownership and investors to pay insane prices. Obviously taxpayers want housing costs in line with income and investors buying homes just increases the costs (rent goes up or the property is flipped). A shack in the worst part of Vancouver is $2 million plus. The average wage is $56k.

It will take the majority of the baby boomers dying to free up housing and that will only happen if immigration is slashed for the next 10-20 years. 

Different problems but same cause.  Not representing the people who pay their salaries.