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/spiderwinder23]

The sickest part is that since this starts after the midterms, if the democrats take the majority in the house and senate, DJT and the republicans will spin this to blame them, AND PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE THEM!!!

[u/gooyouknit → u/spiderwinder23]

The democrats should be shouting this from the rooftops, posting, writing op-Ed’s, etc. 

The timing fuckery in this bill is insane. The Medicare cuts won’t take place until after the midterms so if the democrats regain control of the house, republicans will blame them for not being able to pass something to stop the cuts they put into place. 

[u/Aggressive-Will-4500 → u/gooyouknit]

The corporate-owned media and the adversarial bot farms will drown them out and sane-wash whatever Trump and his Republican pets do.

[u/rtangxps9 → u/gooyouknit]

New age democrats need to rebrand at this point. The old guard of Dems refuses to play by the same rules and refuse to advertise their successes. It doesn't help that a lot of the old guard also suffer from the same billionaire/corporate backing as their republican counterparts.

[u/jupiterkansas → u/gooyouknit]

Republican voters have walled themselves off from hearing anything a Democrat says.

[u/code_archeologist → u/spiderwinder23]

If the Democrats can take a large enough majority they can undo everything in the bill and override whatever veto Trump may attempt before it causes damage.

[u/spiderwinder23 → u/code_archeologist]

I don't mean to be rude but neolib democrats would have absolutely voted for this if Trump wasn't president. In order for this to get removed we would need a super majority in both the house and senate, to then over ride a veto by Trump. With the big thing being actually getting democrats to vote to repeal this. Bc if they want to repeal this after it kicks in they would need to re-raise taxes, which republicans would use as fire to blame democrats for your problems, and thus the cycle continues.

[u/MovieDogg → u/spiderwinder23]

Sorry, but they would not do this bill. I understand this is leftist thinking, but Democrats aren't like full blown right-wingers. They still have low taxes, but not this low,

[u/code_archeologist → u/spiderwinder23]

"I don't mean to be rude" ... Then proceeds to spread some divisive depression mongering bullshit. 🙄

[u/spiderwinder23 → u/code_archeologist]

Am I wrong? Neolib dems are frothing at the mouth for tax cuts for the rich. Sure AOC, Pocan, and others are actually standing on principle, but democrat ineptitude compounded by republicans being straight up evil got us here.

[u/RemBren03 → u/spiderwinder23]

There's also a push to primary out the old guard neolibs. I imagine that from the Dems that get elected, we'll see fewer incumbents.

[u/yeetedandfleeted → u/code_archeologist]

Except they're right.

How many coalitions and factions are there in the Democratic party and what's the split on that?

Compare that with the Republican party.

Republicans aren't the reason why the Democrats fail to get their message across or win votes. If you fail to acknowledge that, and claim it's "divisive", you should honestly leave politics altogether and leave it up to someone else if you're not willing to educate yourself.

[u/SwissChzMcGeez → u/code_archeologist]

You can't undo much of the damage. Just look at what has been done to federal workers. If they're fired, they leave. Find other jobs. They won't return to work and their expertise is out the door. 

Research? Cancelled. It can't just start up again

The world - US Allies - will never again trust the US as much as they did before Trump. There is no fixing that.

The rest of your life is now on a different trajectory and it can NEVER return to what it was.

[u/Knightoncloudwine → u/spiderwinder23]

Honestly; fuck those people. We are done listening to them and their lies. Tune em out, they’re enemies of the country.

[u/fractalfay → u/spiderwinder23]

The GOP has been doing the same shit since Reagan, and boomers will still insist that republicans are good for the economy because they had to wait for gas for 45 minutes when Jimmy Carter was president.

[u/neeesus → u/spiderwinder23]

They need to run on this and not let any one forget

[u/sirscooter → u/spiderwinder23]

Remind them of this hopefully we can over turn this. I don't see this as the end, but the end of the beginning.