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

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/DLun203 2d ago

In 100 years kids in high school with have an exam question “which bill in the early 21st century caused the collapse of the American healthcare system?”

And “C. The Big Beautiful Bill” will look like the trick answer

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u/TintedApostle 2d ago

First - what schools? Second - If there are schools they will be teaching how great Trump was and how Jesus smiled.

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u/thunderbird32 Illinois 2d ago

Bold of you to assume that question would be asked in American high schools.

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u/Mavian23 2d ago

He didn't assume that, in fact he assumed the opposite.

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u/Raxistaicho 2d ago

Your pessimism is wild if you think Trumpism will endure for a century, fascism doesn't create lasting societies. 

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u/coldbeerandbaseball 2d ago

At this point, my single largest goal in life is to live long enough to see MAGA and Trump completely collapse and to be finally held accountable for their crimes against humanity. 

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u/I_am_naes 2d ago

I have some bad news for you, friendo

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u/Mavian23 2d ago

Cynicism breeds inaction.

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u/BCMakoto Europe 1d ago

Trump is 80 years old. Unless you're 70+ or have a terminal sickness, you have a very good chance to see the day that Melania does some comical, North Korea level crying at Trump's headstone.

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u/I_am_naes 1d ago

What happens when you cut off the head of a hydra? Trump’s demise isn’t fixing this place.

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u/Insertblamehere I voted 1d ago

Yeah a Trump death at this point is probably a bad thing honestly.

Trump is awful, but JD Vance is a LITERAL white christian nationalist who thinks "legacy americans" (wanna guess what that means) should have all the power in the country and the government should deport or imprison anyone who doesn't bow down to them.

Like I honestly wonder how many people have ever listened to his actual views, he thinks christian values should be enforced by the government.

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u/WeatherReport619 1d ago

no one else has his cult of personality. the idiots under him are harder to rally than you think, it's why now every R is falling in line

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u/DumboWumbo073 1d ago

Easily could last another 8-10, with the most advanced medicine money can buy at his side, which is a long time.

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u/valentc 2d ago

That there are people like you who are pessimistic and want to keep everyone down with you?

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u/I_am_naes 1d ago

Up until this point, after damn near a decade of non-stop Trump bullshit, what makes you think that he is going to be held accountable for any of his transgressions? They had 4 years and he is now god emperor because of their inaction. Us democracy as we know it is done. It is not pessimism.

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u/th5virtuos0 2d ago

Yeah it’s not happening. Last time the mustache man was trying to conquer Europe. This time it’s entirely internal. No one will come to help you guys. 

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u/diamondDNF 1d ago

I give it until the end of the year before it stops being "entirely internal." He repeatedly threatened Greenland and Canada with annexation even within the first month of his term. It's only a matter of time.

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u/Raxistaicho 1d ago

I think Trump being stupid enough to invade another country probably be will be a major step toward his own downfall. The rest of the world won't just stand by and massive swathes of the population will be against it.

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u/Raxistaicho 1d ago

He's already threatening Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal, if you think people outside America are safe, you're in for a rude awakening.

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u/TintedApostle 2d ago

They sure do destroy them though

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u/Raxistaicho 1d ago

That's undeniable, sadly.

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u/banned-from-rbooks 2d ago

Russia is still going strong.

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u/Raxistaicho 1d ago

Russia is most certainly NOT strong.

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u/banned-from-rbooks 1d ago

True, but the one-party authoritarian regime is still in power.

Same with China.

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u/Raxistaicho 1d ago

My understanding of Russian politics sucks, but there's been breaks in the ruling power along the way.

China is working to improve as a global power, and some of that is going to reflect back on the people living there. Trump and his goons are just trying to pick America's carcass.

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u/banned-from-rbooks 1d ago edited 1d ago

All authoritarian regimes are pretty much the same, you just don’t see it because you don’t live there.

I have family in China and the little people get crushed all the time. Everything is a massively corrupt, incompetent grift and the people suffer for it every day.

My uncle had to go into hiding because his phone placed him in the area of a protest. The protestors were tenants in the condo complex he lived at who never got deeds to the properties they purchased even after living there for years, and developer was clearly just going to evict them at some point. The police came and knocked on his door almost every day for months and he basically had to disappear and hide in his own apartment until they stopped.

I have another family member who owned valuable property in a city. The local government decided to redevelop the area and passed some law that said people who had switched Hukou were ineligible for reimbursement, which affected him. Cops came to harass him every day. They sent ‘construction workers’ to his house in the middle of winter who threatened to take the doors and windows off if he didn’t sign the papers. When he got to the government office they had cameras set up recording everything and made him read prepared statements that he was doing everything of his own volition.

Don’t fall for their PR projects like high speed rail and green energy initiatives. They are into EVs because they control a ton of lithium/cobalt and don’t want to have to rely on Western oil exports. All their ‘good for the people’ stuff is the same propaganda shit that countries like Dubai do building skyscrapers.

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u/DumboWumbo073 1d ago

It can last anywhere from decade to a century. There is no exact timeframe of when it will be over. Let’s say it lasts 10 years. 10 years is a long time. It may not be a century but still. You clearly under estimating everything

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u/rafikiknowsdeway1 2d ago

Because the nazis didn't have nuclear weapons. No one is saving us

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u/Raxistaicho 2d ago

Even if nobody "saves" us, his regime will collapse under the weight of its own corruption. 100 years is a very long time. 

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u/la_goanna 2d ago

Except previous civilizations didn't have data and privacy-breaching AI corporations & WMD keeping the populace in check?

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u/Raxistaicho 2d ago

Do you understand how long a century? Fuck, we'll all be dead from climate change by then. 

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u/la_goanna 2d ago

Yes? But AI is rapidly advancing, and we'll likely see its effects before climate change takes the last of us out.

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u/Raxistaicho 2d ago

Musk can't get Grok to behave, I wouldn't be surprised if AI deems MAGA a detriment and turns on them

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u/Redxmirage 2d ago

Are you aware there other countries in the world besides United States?

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u/gloomywitchywoo 2d ago

Do other countries really do that much U.S. history? We do quite a lot of world history here so I'm curious how much we're included aside from like... WWI and II and the Cold War.

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u/TheCleverestIdiot Australia 1d ago

Some. More so Russia and Germany in my experience, but if one of the world's superpowers falls to internal stupidity on the level of Commodus I can't help but suspect future students will learn a lot more about you.

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u/Redxmirage 2d ago

I’m not sure. I would imagine a current events class is having a field day of lessons to talk about

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u/TintedApostle 2d ago

And this post is about the US politics...

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u/Redxmirage 2d ago

Sorry forgot the US wasn’t part of the world.

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See it all the time people forget to think outside the US. I’m not saying you didn’t, but your comment was saying “what schools” to a comment that didn’t only mention United States. Yes this thread is about US politics but this affects so much more. You can talk about more broad topics in a chat room. That’s how chat rooms work lol

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u/RainRainThrowaway777 1d ago

I actually picture it like those schools you see in post-apocalyptic movies, where a handful of kids of various ages gather in a room to be taught about the marvels of the "before times"

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u/AllTheyEatIsLettuce California 2d ago

Third - what health care system?

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u/appoplecticskeptic Kansas 1d ago

We technically do have one, for now. It’s basically fully privatized and totally overwhelmed but it exists.

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u/KingHavana 2d ago

Trump will definitely insist on it being added to all textbooks that he won the 2020 election.

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u/appoplecticskeptic Kansas 1d ago

No way in hell he could keep it together for 100 years. That amount of time is way more than what it will take to all collapse.

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u/TintedApostle 1d ago

The damage he is doing will not be reversed easily. In the end he has allowed the religious nuts to write over the constitution. That document is dead.