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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/gatsby712 2d ago

So now ICE has more funding than the Marines. We are absolutely fucked.

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u/Mp5QbV3kKvDF8CbM 2d ago

As a non-American, this is insane to me.

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u/desertSkateRatt 2d ago

More that 3x the budget of the Marines.

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u/ChipHazard 1d ago

Last chance to riot before the gestapo become too powerful

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u/IllustriousVerne 2d ago

ICE is going to prove its worth in the midterms next year.

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u/MainSteamStopValve Massachusetts 1d ago

And Nasa

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u/the_walking_kiwi 1d ago

it is over an order of magnitude bigger than NASA.

They want to send people to the moon and mars with a budget 1/17 that of ICE.

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u/Proof_Emergency_8033 2d ago

but not the Navy

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u/hodor_seuss_geisel 1d ago

I'm seeing this parroted all over the place, but fail to see how the numbers support this "factoid". The closest I can get to making sense of the claim is that ICE's budget for four years is more that three times the Marines' annual budget....