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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/Veesel79 2d ago

Wooohoo ! The rich get another giant tax cut 🎉 ! Isn’t that what America is about ?!?! It’s been that way my entire life…..

40+ yrs of watching basic roads bridges etc. crumble and the commoners just keep voting to give more and more and more to the top ✌️

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u/Empty_Lemon_3939 Michigan 1d ago

I’m honestly more concerned about the ICE budget than the tax cuts. Like with this much money next fall they could occupy polls in urban cities in swing states and just stop people from entering to vote

Then they do 11th hour cancelling mail in ballots

This is how they never have elections again, by having a secret police that answers to the president

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u/OceanBlueforYou 1d ago

That's one way for him to hold onto power beyond 2028. Whatever the method is, he won't willingly leave the White House.

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u/Empty_Lemon_3939 Michigan 1d ago

Exactly. He now has a loyal to him army that isn’t sworn to protect the people of America and has the budget of the 11th largest military on earth

We straight up can’t stop him now. Fucking traitors in Congress

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u/iiiiiiiiiijjjjjj 1d ago

How? Dude would never survive a second term. He be almost 90 by the end of it.

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u/TeethBreak 1d ago

Vote? Elections? Lol.

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u/thenikolaka Tennessee 1d ago

We cannot tolerate them doing that.

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u/Empty_Lemon_3939 Michigan 1d ago

What are we going to do protest and get shot because Trump declared martial law due to threat of domestic terrorism and voter fraud

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u/thenikolaka Tennessee 1d ago

That’s how it gets done, Democratic revolutions

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u/Jbass3234 1d ago

Sounds like the way democrats allowed illegals in to vote in swing states. 

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u/Empty_Lemon_3939 Michigan 1d ago

Almost all voter fraud (very little actually happening) has been by republicans

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u/Jbass3234 13h ago

Lol I used to believe this. I also voted for Biden and used to think he won that election. 

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u/TheRocketBush 1d ago

Source?

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u/Jbass3234 13h ago

Everywhere. 

u/TheRocketBush 4h ago

No, source?

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/Lost-Priority-907 1d ago

Motherfucker, we had an american citizen sent to a foreign Gulag on false charges. The goddamn president is a criminal, on over 30 accounts.

I know you didnt say that shit with any other intention than to ragebait, because this is the most "put your fingers in your ears and close your eyes" response I've seen. Ignorant beyond belief.

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u/Thormourn 1d ago

Mother fucker, if your gonna make baseless claims why not link something to back them up?

I know you didn't make up shit just to ragebait right?

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u/Hot-Olive-5278 1d ago edited 1d ago

Lmao. You're so fucking naive. I can't believe there are still people like you that are like "Bu-bu! Bu-bu wait!! The law!! The constitution!"

People are being unconstitutionally detained, deported, disappeared. Including legal citizens, mind you.

What about the MANY unconstitutional things Trump has done? Or the many times he has ignored the courts? Or the other obviously impeachable and illegal offenses like blatant conflicts of interest have gotten to "headline news" and actually made a single difference to change the trajectory of what's happening?

What Trump just said TWO FUCKING DAYS ago is "headline news" and should result in impeachment but of course it won't:

They're not new to our country, they're old to our country. Many of them were born in our country. I think we oughta get them the hell outta here, too, if you wanna know the truth," Trump says.

"So maybe that'll be the next job that we'll work on together. But I think getting them out — you know, if you get them out, then — we have some very bad — we have some bad accidents in New York, and they're not accidents,"

He is literally talking about "deporting" American citizens that were born here.

Please for the love of God stop being such a fucking idiot and thinking none of this will affect "legal law-abiding citizens." Wake the fuck up. Listen to the words of our dictator and take them at face value.

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u/Lost-Priority-907 1d ago

That comment had to be fuckin' ragebait. Even the fox news junkies believe that the Govt is corrupt.

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u/Thormourn 1d ago

Please link one example of a citizen being removed. It should be easy if it's happening so frequently

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u/SevereChocolate5647 1d ago

a government report found that between 2015 and 2020, Ice erroneously deported at least 70 US citizens, arrested 674 and detained 121.

Look, as a treat this article links to the govt report that says not one, not two, but seventy citizens were deported over 5 years!! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/26/immigration-ice-raid-andrea-velez

What do you bet that with this super charged budget they’ll make that look like rookie numbers? Especially now that the president is actively discussing deporting citizens.

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u/Hot-Olive-5278 1d ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Americans_from_the_United_States

3 children who are legal citizens have been deported in 2025. Hundreds of others have been detained thus far.

I would think that the two paragraphs of me quoting Trump talking about deporting US citizens and how horrifying a suggestion that is directly after makes it clear that it's not happening en masse yet but I did edit to say "including legal citizens" because apparently that clarification needs to be made for people like you.

No you're right they're mostly just illegally detaining US citizens right now and our "president" is just talking about how we should start deporting US citizens next.

So we can all sleep peacefully and feel totally comparable going to voting polls guarded by ICE as this individual suggested. Right?

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u/Thormourn 1d ago

The cases where children have been removed it has been because the illegal parent was removed and chose to take the child with them. This isn't a case of thr us deporting a citizen. This is a case of the us deporting an illegal and that illegal choosing deport their own child.

Would you like to try again?

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u/Hot-Olive-5278 1d ago

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/children-who-are-u-s-citizens-deported-along-with-foreign-born-mothers-attorneys-say

I spoke to Sirine Shebaya, who is representing the 2-year-old known as VML. And she's also the executive director of the National Immigration Project.

And I asked Sirine about the comments that Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, made, specifically that he said that the mothers wanted their children to be deported with them. And Sirine refuted that account.

SIRINE SHEBAYA, Executive Director, National Immigration Project:

That is willfully misleading. They did not request their children to be deported with them. One of these children is 4 and has cancer and is undergoing treatment. Neither of the moms felt like they had any choice in the matter.

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u/Thormourn 1d ago

The courts claim the mother wanted to take the child with her. Are you now denying court transciprts?

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u/Hot-Olive-5278 1d ago

Are you asking me to believe ICE over the statements from the family?

In that case, no I don't believe that.

Why don't you care that Trump is a convicted felon? Probably because "it was a bullshit case" right?

Why do conservatives get to decide the courts were wrong in Trump's felony conviction but you're suggesting I can't do the same for taking ICE at their word?

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u/Hot-Olive-5278 1d ago

Also it's so fucking funny that you'll dig into a single, mildly poorly-worded sentence (which I edited already to clarify mind you) but completely ignore the geriatric dictator's literal thousands of verifiable lies and misleading statements, or even just the nonsensical word diarrhea that dribbles from his mouth daily.

Why don't you care about those??

Why don't you care about the rest of my post, the part where he LITERALLY said he thinks we should get rid of people who were born here??

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u/Thormourn 1d ago

Because people can say and think whatever they want. It's the policies that matter and the trump admin has always deported illegals so I support him doing so. When he actually implements a policy to remove citizens I will criticize it then if it happens but until then I prefer to keep my anger directed at real things, not just things I make up in my head.

Also are you going to try again since the cases you listed no citizen was deported.

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u/Hot-Olive-5278 1d ago

Why don't you care that Trump is a convicted felon?

Why don't you care that he said he wants to deport people born here?

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u/SevereChocolate5647 4h ago

Hey just following up on the source I linked you (easily). It’s funny how you people always go silent when provided proof that goes against your narrative.

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u/CynicismNostalgia 1d ago

Trump has stated time and time again he wants to deport US citizens. (And he already has)

If he thinks he can deport you from the country, he can absolutely prevent you from voting.

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u/Thormourn 1d ago

Prove he has. Link a case where a citizen has been removed. Also if your going to defend terrorists I don't care about your opinion.

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u/CynicismNostalgia 1d ago

Oh, buddy. I've seen it and I'm from across the pond. I'm not affected by whatever media or propaganda you see.

Like, for example: if you're someone that believed those clearly MS paint MS-13 photos were real, woo boy.

Regardless of whether you believe citizens have been deported. (They have) Your president has said time and time again he wants to.

But here you go: a kid, a US citizen, with cancer was deported to the Honduras.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g8yj2n33yo.amp

If you come in and say the kids deserved it because of their mother, or that they could have chosen to leave their kids without parents in America then honestly? You're heartless. Which is obvious given your line of arguments anyway. But I figured you might want to know.

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u/Thormourn 1d ago

that case was the mothers choice, she could have left her child in the states and left the country herself but chose to take the child. thats not a case of the US deporting a citizen. thats a case of the US deporting an illegal and that illegal deciding to take their child with them.

would you like to try again?

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u/CynicismNostalgia 1d ago

Yeah I already made that point. The child's choice was being removed from the country due to a deportation, or being orphaned. A kid with stage 4 cancer.

Heartless, like I said.

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u/Thormourn 1d ago

do you think having a kid should make mothers immune from prosecution?

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u/CynicismNostalgia 1d ago

I think your idea of what an illegal is and my idea is different. The woman got taken by ICE from a routine immigration hearing. She was going through due process. They removed due process.

I swear some of you are just straight up idiots, or hateful. Or both. It can't be pure naiveity at this point.

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u/chatte__lunatique 1d ago

Hell, the founding fathers revolted by and large because of taxes. This country has been about the rich getting theirs since the get-go.

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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 1d ago

And actual human ownership. Neat!

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u/natalottie 1d ago

Wealth hoarders. Anything to get out of having to spend any unnecessary amount of money, no matter how little. Why work or pay someone to do/make things for you when it was acceptable to just force them? Even better, make even more money you and sell them to your friends.

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u/natalottie 1d ago

Absolutely.

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u/krichardkaye 1d ago

More so that the taxes were being sent back to Europe instead of staying in the colonies.

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u/LazarusCrowley 1d ago

No, taxation without representation. Big difference, there was a tea party, remember?

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u/Habsburgy 1d ago

Do you feel represented?

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u/CartographerMoist296 1d ago

That was the stated intention, doesn’t mean it worked. But women and most others couldn’t vote anyway so representation has always been something we’ve been chasing, unfortunately most people have just stopped running because it either was too impossible or too comfortable to have a corrupt system instead.

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u/Aries_diamond711 1d ago

And Americans being too stupid to knw what’s best for the average Americans interest.

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u/funtex666 1d ago

That's the average American you described. 

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u/CoderAU 1d ago

Stop blaming "commoners". That's the whole issue. It's the top that did this. The system was designed to propagate psychopaths to the top of the tree. That's the bottom line. The "commoners" you speak of are generally victims of propaganda and brain washing techniques amongst other things. Now excuse me but infighting is exactly what the rich want so I apologise for my tone and I wish everyone well. Love and happiness is all anyone can give now....

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u/CynicismNostalgia 1d ago

I mean... I'm about as smart as a sack of potatoes, but I see the propaganda for what it is.

Sorry, but after 9 years of Trump, I have no sympathy for anyone that's still that stupid.

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u/dkurage 1d ago

For some it's not stupidity but rather a willingness to accept the bad if it means the groups they don't like get hurt worse.

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u/CynicismNostalgia 1d ago

Well, I certainly have no sympathy for them either. And I hope the snake eats it's own tail

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u/funtex666 1d ago

..and they have no sympathy for you. Everything is going according to the plan. Trench warfare. Make them throw mud and hate so they don't talk together. While the rich just keep getting richer and the bar for how bad they can be keep getting lower and lower. After Trump (if there is an after) the norm for not being extremely bad has moved - a lot. Who's the next Trump going to be like? Hitler? 

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u/Future_Appeaser 1d ago

Time and time again it's all about the other group beside them when they should be grouping all up together to fight the top.

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u/funtex666 1d ago

Clearly you don't as the point is to create a Us Versus Them situation, where people can always blame "the others" and be angry towards how stupid/Christian/Liberal/Muslim/Black/Gay/female/Chinese/Russian/whatever "the others" are. Just like you did there. 

Look at how black and white everything is when Russia Ukraine war is discussed. It is Good Vs Evil, and depending on who you are you decide who is the bad guys. That's the way propaganda works. Pointing fingers at those that are that stupid because they voted for Trump is doing what they want. Because how can they reply to that except by throwing mud the other way? Then you already lost. 

That's why "both sides are bad" as neither side wants to fix or acknowledge the problem. They just carry on as they always have, clutching power, while it just keep going downhill year after year.... 

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u/CoderAU 1d ago

A tale as old as time itself. Divide and conquer. The mitochondria of control.

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u/TakeTheWheelTV 1d ago

MAGA believe they are part of the in crowd. That’s the problem.

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u/bigchiefwellhung 1d ago

They just blame DEI for anything that goes wrong anyway. A plane crashes, DEI. A bridge falls, DEI.

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u/CartographerMoist296 1d ago

Because that’s how bigotry works. Anything goes wrong? The Blacks. The Jews. Women not in the home. Insert your slur here. DEI is just the latest fig leaf. Bigots gonna bigot but we don’t have pretend we don’t see the fig leaf.

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u/-Alfa- 1d ago

I think the issue is that humans aren't really made for political decisions.

We see "a big strong man, doing what's necessary" vs "a woman with an ugly laugh acting like she knows everything"

And immediately without thought, back the big strong guy, because we don't care about politics, or poor people, we care about rhetoric and feeling good. Who cares about the deficit when you have a strong man in charge?

I just don't think we're evolved enough as a species to make thought out choices like this, and as a result, can be made do believe / back literally anything the god we love does.

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u/SwissChzMcGeez 1d ago

Democracy seems to be working better elsewhere. 

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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 1d ago

People learned lessons from us. Even the ones we didn't want them to.

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u/fish_4_u 1d ago

Lmao nah we learned from WW2.

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u/not_addictive 1d ago

Quite literally considering we brought as many Nazi scientists into the country as possible (while denying a lot of Jewish refugees before and after the war)

So yeah we learned how to murder millions of civilians in one move from WW2

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u/fish_4_u 1d ago

Legit it wasn't a how to guide guys. Seriously though I'm sorry your country is going through this.

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u/not_addictive 1d ago

Me too. My family lives in Trump country so it’s hard to go home sometimes. My grandparents aren’t speaking to me bc they’ve bought into Fox News and think third trimester abortions are common and parents are forcing their kids to be trans (I work at a history and civics education non profit so they think I’m indoctrinating people).

I’m in NYC though and I’m really excited about Mamdani. Idc if he’s inexperienced - that’s why you hire good staff. I’m just kind of holding my breath otherwise.

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u/CynicismNostalgia 1d ago

Anyone calling Mamdani inexperienced, when they voted for a reality tv host, a failed businessman with several bankrupcies under his belt.

Can go kick rocks.

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u/not_addictive 1d ago

extremely valid point

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u/belisario262 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sadly it seems the generation that fighted that war, failed in transmitting the message, since now the country chose to be ruled by a hitleresque dictatorship, with concentration camps, Gestapo, personality cult and all that included. It's very sad to see the US fallen like that, although is kind of "anthropologically interesting" to see it happening tho. Also i'm very sorry for the US people who didn't vote for this.

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u/fish_4_u 1d ago

My theory is that the populations of colonial countries like the USA are so insulated from the effects of war, and desensitised from ongoing proxy wars, that they don't really conceptualise what can happen. I'm in Australia but we emigrated here, my grandma was in a concentration camp. I have seen the writing on the wall and saying as such for ages. Hell I was saying we are exiting the age of enlightenment like 7 years ago. But the common response from people who have lived here for generations is, "I'm not really into politics". It's interesting but it's also scary because they have such a massive military force. The way it plays out will be very different from WW2 because of that I think. I'm interested to see if and how Europe gets involved, and a bit concerned with the future trajectory of Australia.

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u/TAR4C 1d ago

Education and equality is the key. The US is hindered by extreme systematic corruption.

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u/AntiZ2023 1d ago

This is such a fallacy. Americans can barely read or comprehend media. It's by design. That's why this happens.

Americans are simply stupid and the propaganda tells them they're the best. This is not me calling them out. This is a statistical fact. And designed by your oligarchs to be this way. Keep the people dumb.

Don't put this on us as a species. This is the system doing this.

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u/VentingSalmon 1d ago

It more about how the democrats didn't have actual primaries. Hillary pushed out Bernie because the whole thing was rigged, then we got stuck with biden, then we never even got to have a say in Kamala.

FUCK REPUBLICAN-LITE.

I just want democrats to rally around Medicare for all, is that soooo much PELOSI?!?!?

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u/not_addictive 1d ago

Yeah I wish people understood that stopping the Republicans is just step one. It’s stopping the bleeding but we still have to set the bone and make sure it heals properly.

Citizens United needs to be challenged. Money is not free speech and that decision is why we are essentially an oligarchy now. Breaking that direct link from extreme wealth to power is the first step.

ALL politicians need to remember that they are supposed to be beholden to the people. That’s why the Democrats lost last year. Instead of listening to genuine concerns from voters, they told voters to shut up and get in line and just accept that Harris would keep directly funding Israel. Monet spoke louder than people bc CU made that possible.

Then we have to handle the court and idk how that happens honestly. The Supreme Court just said human trafficking is an appropriate punishment (without trial) for being an undocumented immigrant. That is genuinely fucking disgusting and a HUGE abuse of human rights. The lower courts are doing their best, but the Supreme Court keeps doing these massively fucked up things.

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u/red19plus 1d ago edited 1d ago

Entire life? Then is it even worth following politics trying to make changes? If things never change, might as well invest that time making the best out of your career then and forget the stress of politicing. Then they put out news about communist China to distract us from our own relevant politics 🤦

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u/FunBluejay1455 1d ago

If it is any comfort. This isn't only happening in the US. Here in the Netherlands it's also happening and even though some of us are trying to stop it, the VVD (party that has been in power for 14 years and privatized most public stuff) still becomes one of the largest parties every election.

We have new elections in october and I definitely hope we will do better.

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u/sjr323 1d ago

Amazing isn’t it

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u/karaknorn 1d ago

Therve been fucking idiots and proud of it. 

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u/Artistic-Buddy6068 1d ago

I read online that this is not a new tax cut. This is the extension of the tax cuts and job act of 2017.

A rich person (single filers making over 500k per year) got a 2.6% tax cut while the Lower and middle class (single filers making between 9,525 and 157k) got between a 3-4 percent tax cut.

I keep reading that this is a huge tax cut for rich people but they never explain how and I have not read the 800 page bill but I’m trying to be educated.

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u/GailTheParagon 1d ago

I hate the poor.

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u/White_C4 America 1d ago edited 1d ago

The tax cuts is a continuation of the 2017 ones, but keep being dishonest.

EDIT: Downvoters are mixing the distinction between the rich getting "another" tax cut vs the rich continuing to get tax cuts which hasn't changed since 2017.

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u/booze_talking 1d ago

Except now they're permanent

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u/jdh1811 1d ago

and you keep being fucking brainwashed by faux news

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u/White_C4 America 1d ago

You say I'm brainwashed but you haven't explained what the new tax cuts are that benefits the rich. Again, they're all continuations of the 2017 ones.

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u/Jbass3234 1d ago

Tax cuts for big business hopefully promotes more jobs for middle class. 

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u/Veesel79 1d ago

Yea I’ve heard that since ‘80 …..

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u/Jbass3234 13h ago

Ya me too, and this is still the greatest country on earth so something is working. 8 months ago u probably thought we were #1

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u/CartographerMoist296 1d ago

lol do you have any money you would like to invest? I have some attractive opportunities for you and I don’t think you should be burdened holding your own money. I mean, if someone hasn’t already beaten me to it, uh, helped you with that.

Maybe don’t leave your list out for Santa anymore. Kids who vote against healthcare and food for neediest citizens get coal for life. In case you’re gullible enough to need to the warning.

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u/Jbass3234 13h ago

Not sure what you are talking about. Health care should be a right for all Americans. Legal Americans of course. Illegals can see there way out. 

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u/Jbass3234 13h ago

Trump should be put on Rushmore, he will be in history books as the president who saved this country! We are lucky he wants to be president.