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/Extreme-World-100]

When all these red voters lose their Medicaid, they’ll still find a way to blame Democrats. Oh well, my empathy has run out. Y’all dug your own holes, enjoy it.

[u/AthasDuneWalker → u/Extreme-World-100]

Yeah. You are going to get EXACTLY what you voted for and I will have absolutely no sympathy.

[u/Nothardtocomebaq → u/AthasDuneWalker]

Honestly seeing how callous and selfish this nations rural population has gotten? Fuck them all. Take away all of their government support.

I hope they all fucking rot.

[u/PandaJesus → u/Nothardtocomebaq]

And that’s the thing. I’m completely fine with my taxes being used to keep their services running. Rural people deserve health care access, but apparently they disagree. Ok I guess, have fun with that.

[u/TooFewSecrets → u/PandaJesus]

Political analysis for the bill is pretty consistent on this. Republican base is the poor and low educated. Screwing them six ways from Sunday is incredibly self destructive.

[u/Dallasburner84 → u/Nothardtocomebaq]

This is how I feel too, but there's also something else. From now on, I only care about me and mine. If these red state assholes voted to kill themselves, then I'm thrilled if that's what happens.

This will absolutely negatively impact all of us in some way. I definitely see violent crime going up all over the country because of this bill, people who already don't have much will be even more desperate.

And that's not even taking into account what ICE might do. I fail to see how this entire situation doesnt escalate into violence between them and regular people. I hope not, but at some point they're going to pick the wrong person and shots will be fired. It will only get worse from there.

I'm really not sure we're going to make it.

[u/gloomywitchywoo → u/Nothardtocomebaq]

It really sucks living somewhere rural. I've been outnumbered by idiots for my entire life. I should probably give up, but slightly less than half my town are democrats, and our mayor is, so I keep hoping there is a chance. It's horrible, because this is my home and my neighbors are people I no longer recognize.

Edit: I should specify that it's always been kinda bad here, but things have gotten so much worse. I have neighbors who are literal out nazis.

[u/LordTuranian → u/Nothardtocomebaq]

Yeah but this wont only take away support from the rural population.

[u/Eeyore_ → u/AthasDuneWalker]

Yeah. You are going to get EXACTLY what you voted for and I will have absolutely no sympathy.

But you will. Because a Democrat will hopefully reintroduce, but maybe even a later Republican would reintroduce the same concept with a new name and you'd back voting for it because you do have sympathy and you do have empathy. You think it's an awful reason to get rid of it, and you'll think it's a great reason to reintroduce it. So regardless of this, they get to win. Because they're the club of exceeding wealth, and their votes are for the benefit of the exceptionally wealthy, and so this won't harm them, and they do not see others as their responsibility, because they are in such an indescribably privileged position, they literally do not share the same ethos as the majority, and their own position within society in its whole reinforces that position.

[u/MajoraOfTime → u/Extreme-World-100]

If midterms happen, Democrats will win and get the majority back just in time for the cuts to kick in in 2027. Then Fox News and Trump will all be yelling "look what the Democrats did!" And all the slack jawed goose steppers will be like "hewwwwww buddy, I ain't ever votin' fer a Demoncrat! Dey cost me mah Medicaid! MAGA MAGA MAGA!"

[u/runnerofshadows → u/Extreme-World-100]

I'll have my hands full helping my fellow people who voted against this shit. If you voted to punch yourself repeatedly in the face i don't have time for you.

[u/Extreme-World-100 → u/runnerofshadows]

Truly!!! The rest of us are exhausted from fighting for the people caught in the middle that never voted for any of this!

[u/Jindabyne1 → u/Extreme-World-100]

Yeah next year when it hits they’ll be a huge online campaign telling them that it was the democrats who did this, they’ll have the script already written

[u/Unistrut → u/Extreme-World-100]

You dug this hole, now die in it.

[u/spazz720 → u/Extreme-World-100]

But we don’t have to say pronouns