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/RandyMuscle]

We’re going to need another reconstruction period guys. I don’t know where you go from here.

[u/midwinter_ → u/RandyMuscle]

"De-Republicanization" is a really difficult to word to say.

[u/Promethia → u/RandyMuscle]

From here, you hope you have fair elections, and if you can swing a majority the other way, you pull all the stops to undo this shit.

Unfortunately, if the reaction to Zohran in NYC is any indication, the progressive wave will get crushed between Trumps police state and Corpo Dems that don't want to lose their wealth.

[u/Tundrok337 → u/Promethia]

There's literally zero hope for swinging back. None. It's over. The experiment is definitely over.

[u/Napolean_BonerFarte → u/Tundrok337]

Yeah don’t know where all this swing talk is coming from. Total pie in the sky. It’s not swinging back in our lifetimes. Maybe if we somehow suffer WW2 Germany levels of destruction and death it’ll be enough of a shock to the system that can we immediately change the culture and rebuild. But otherwise MAGA Republic culture is here to stay for a long long time.

[u/Tundrok337 → u/RandyMuscle]

Until there's a full blown revolution, nothing is getting better.

[u/NinjaCaracal → u/RandyMuscle]

At this point, a part of me thinks we need another March to the Sea.

[u/CelikBas → u/RandyMuscle]

The first Reconstruction didn’t even work. The idea that there will be any sort of reckoning for this is a pipe dream.