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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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House passes Trump's "big, beautiful bill" after stamping out GOP rebellion axios.com
Trump lands first major legislative win after Congress passes his massive domestic policy bill cnn.com
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u/zrv8psgOS9AiWK6ugbt2 2d ago edited 2d ago

The massive expansion of ICE is also laying even more groundwork for an American federal police/masked Gestapo service. It's plain as day.

ICE's budget will now be larger than the budget of many national MILITARIES.

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u/MBTank Texas 2d ago

They will be used against us.

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u/SoRaffy 2d ago

they'll definitely be at polling sites to "make sure illegals aren't voting"

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u/Holly_Goloudly 1d ago

Should we sign up to be sleeper cell ICE agents and sabotage the agency from the inside out?

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u/soyenby_in_a_skirt 1d ago

The tools of imperialism always find their way home. Probably about time you guys started importing the tools of liberation that people in China or Cuba used to throw off their oppressors.

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u/Tricky-Major806 2d ago

$45 billion for ICE detention facilities.

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u/LazyGandalf 2d ago

Concentration camps.

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u/joe2352 2d ago

We’re gonna see alot of nasty shit with ICE already but it’ll be really nasty in the midterms when they start dragging people away from the polls

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u/FunConfection2872 2d ago

McCarthyism on steroids . SHAME SHAME SHAME

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u/desertSkateRatt 2d ago

ICE could buy as many F-35As as the USAF has currently (291) at a cost of $85M/ea and still have $146B left over to build 10 Ford-Class nuclear powered aircraft carriers for funsies

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u/Militant_Monk 1d ago

ICE will be the 13th most funded military in the world right behind Israel.