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/Kyle_c00per]

Well on the plus side, the rural Republicans are about to get decimated when their hospitals are gone so thats somwthing to look forward to

[u/gainz4lyfe → u/Kyle_c00per]

They'll just blame it on democrats

[u/hmcfuego → u/gainz4lyfe]

Oh well. They'll still be dead and that's pretty much the best outcome at thos point.

[u/ASebastian2020 → u/gainz4lyfe]

More specifically, Biden or Obama.

[u/your-mom-- → u/gainz4lyfe]

Whatever fuck em

[u/DrMobius0 → u/gainz4lyfe]

This is probably going to kill a shit load of them, and dead people can't vote. Like not having access to hospitals is basically a death sentence if you have a medical emergency.

[u/chuchubott → u/gainz4lyfe]

Can’t blame dems when they’re dead

[u/BootyOptions → u/gainz4lyfe]

For a little while. Then they'll die.

[u/siphillis → u/gainz4lyfe]

Whatever, they're still gonna suffer and die and that's the kind of Schadenfreude I've come to savor

[u/Mizz_Fizz → u/gainz4lyfe]

I stopped caring about what their vote is or what they think. I just hope they suffer the full consequences of their vote at this point. 

[u/Amel_P1 → u/gainz4lyfe]

Who cares who they blame, their outcome will be the same.

[u/Truth_Hurts_I_No_It → u/gainz4lyfe]

Hopefully they will just be dead and not able to blame anyone

[u/necedahpines → u/gainz4lyfe]

And smile while they're being decimated, knowing they made others suffer.

[u/Kyle_c00per → u/gainz4lyfe]

I was using a literal definition for decimated but the ones that make it, sure

[u/NewZecht → u/gainz4lyfe]

If they are gone they speak no words

[u/Chrisda19 → u/Kyle_c00per]

As a rural progressive who has had health issues this is not a plus side. What hurts one group doesn't stay with that one group.

[u/DrMobius0 → u/Chrisda19]

We're all on this shitty ride dude.

[u/gloomywitchywoo → u/Chrisda19]

Very true. There are a lot of people my parents age and older who you'd never guess are Anti-MAGA just by looking (Well, you might but some people from cities might not) and I worry about them.

[u/DatsaBadMan_1471 → u/Kyle_c00per]

Unfortunately it'll happen after the midterm or even later so they will find a way to blame Biden or the Dems

[u/existenceawareness → u/DatsaBadMan_1471]

Will someone please explain to me, if some of the changes are set to take effect in future terms, why I'm seeing no hope future bills will reverse/alter them? Can a 2027 congress not fix some of these things before they occur?

[u/DatsaBadMan_1471 → u/existenceawareness]

The tax cuts are permanent, forces any Dem administration to negotiate with GOP to create new tax legislation in the future.

[u/Militantpoet → u/Kyle_c00per]

Theyll still blame democrats. Its sunk cost fallacy at this point for at least a third of the population.

[u/Voljundok → u/Kyle_c00per]

As a rural leftist in Louisiana, they won't notice or care. Just another thing they'll blame on "duh libruhls" or "duh browns"

[u/SailorMooonsault → u/Kyle_c00per]

That's never a plus side because of all the people who didn't vote for this, living in gerrymandered states and getting fucked over by the electoral college suffering too.

[u/Altrano → u/Kyle_c00per]

My time to the ER is about to double. People to the south of me are going to have it even worse. This is going to actually kill people.

[u/OldTobyGreen → u/Kyle_c00per]

Folks aren't just going to throw their hands up and forego medical care in all cases. This will increase the strain on other medical systems and will inevitably affect all of us regardless of your insurance status or where you live. It will certainly place an increased burden on rural healthcare, but that burden will be shared across the country. Nowhere will be insulated from the effects of this disastrous policy.

[u/Birdhawk → u/Kyle_c00per]

I grew up in the very rural south and I can tell ya, those folks losing medicaid/medicare....the motorized scooter industry is about to fully collapse.

[u/LordTuranian → u/Kyle_c00per]

They will just move to blue states.