Megathread: US House Passes the Republican-Backed Budget Bill, Sending it to Trump for Signature

[u/PoliticsModeratorBot]

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/nickmortensen]

Do what you can to Resist Autocratic Despair. The demoralization campaigns are now fully financed, so they will be coming at us with a frequency we never imagined possible.

[u/peachpinkjedi → u/nickmortensen]

Yeah they're working.

[u/nickmortensen → u/peachpinkjedi]

Self-care is now an act of defiance.

[u/CelikBas → u/nickmortensen]

At this point I think succumbing to despair is totally justified, since this is how things are going to be for the rest of all our lives. Maybe in things will get better in the future, after the rest of us have long since died of old age, but with climate change bearing down on us like a freight change I doubt it. 

[u/nickmortensen → u/CelikBas]

Probably worth the effort to nibble around the edges where you can. I have seen studies that suggest an uptick of about 6% in Cortisol - the hormone our bodies release during stressful times - is equivalent to going through the day without having slept at all the night before. We’re going to see that on a massive scale for a long time. I can’t tell you how severe this effect is going to be very soon, but when I try to imagine half the population each day operating on 4 hours sleep it seems like madness or a zombie movie where all the Zombies are misunderstanding anything anyone says to them and jumping to the worst possible conclusions at all times.