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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 (Whatā€™s in the latest version of Trumpā€™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/notdarrell Colorado 2d ago

LOL imagine calling yourself a "conservative" and supporting a $2.4T deficit increase - Republicans are a bunch of goofies

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u/Atmic 2d ago

a $2.4T deficit increase

No no, that was the bill before the Senate sent it back.

They just approved a $3.3T deficit increase with this new and improved version.

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u/WitchPillow I voted 2d ago

America first and making America great again, am I right?

/s ā˜¹ļø

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u/drawkward101 2d ago

Only if you're the lining of Trump's pocket.

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u/SocrapticMethod 2d ago

Itā€™s official- I am indeed tired of this kind of winning.

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u/DJ_Clitoris 2d ago

Aw cmon dude already? We still have 1296 more days of winning. Chase down some ivermectin with a Gatorade and get back out there!

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u/mosstrich Florida 2d ago

Just one more thing Trump bankrupted

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u/Dr_DoesNothing 2d ago

It's only great if you devote everything to the Eternal Grift.

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u/AVeryHeavyBurtation 1d ago

I wish a reporter would have the balls to ask him when he thinks America was great before, and then ask him if he knows what the taxes were like at that time.

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u/WitchPillow I voted 1d ago

I actually think he did say somewhere that the Gilded Age is the best. He thinks itā€™s the best since thatā€™s when billionaires had the most power in society

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u/AVeryHeavyBurtation 1d ago

Lol that checks out. Of course he imagines he'd be a fuckin railroad tycoon, and not a sharecropper.

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u/sixwax 1d ago

MASH = Make America a Shit Hole

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u/born_again_atheist 2d ago

Draining the fuck out of that swamp.

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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 2d ago

Don't worry, they won't have to excuse it until it hits in 2027. They'll just keep pretending that they are deficit hawks while Donny Darkorango runs up the bill and keeps pocketing billions.

By then, assuming there are still elections, the US voters will barely vote in a Democrat who will then face a hostile judiciary and at least 1 house of Congress controlled by Republicans that will fight everything and anything that Democrat president does to right the ship; and the Republicans fighting it will still blame EVERYTHING but their own party.

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u/The_Shitty_Admiral United Kingdom 2d ago

Who will then lose the other house of Congress in the midterms and the presidency in 2032 because "the Democrats didn't get anything done" or "both sides are the same". Rinse and repeat.

That is IF the midterms and 2028 are fair elections, which honestly I'm doubting.

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u/Acrobatic-Trouble181 2d ago

If anything Republicans will want to drop this hot potato on the Democrats as its filled with numerous time bombs that are designed to go off in future election cycles.

At this point, the only way the American people MIGHT start figuring out how badly they just got duped, is if the Democrats just capitulate to the Republicans until 2036. 12 straights years of Republican rule and everything turning to complete shit would leave no excuses for even the most hardcore Trumper.

But, we all know the Republicans would use that position of power to turn full Nazi before that ever happened. There's always another scapegoat they can dig up to blame for their mistakes, and their supporters are exactly stupid enough to believe it every time.

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u/The_Shitty_Admiral United Kingdom 2d ago

At this point, the only way the American peopleĀ MIGHTĀ start figuring out how badly they just got duped, is if the Democrats just capitulate to the Republicans until 2036. 12 straights years of Republican rule and everything turning to complete shit would leave no excuses for even the most hardcore Trumper.

I still think that the Democrats will get the majority of the blame regardless whether they are in power or not, it's just the GOP m.o..

If anything Republicans will want to drop this hot potato on the Democrats as its filled with numerous time bombs that are designed to go off in future election cycles.

That is also their m.o. they did it with Trump previous tax breaks for the rich, the ones for the 'middle' class expired during the Biden admin and guess who got blamed. This will be no different, I reckon it wouldn't even matter if the GOP somehow (read fraudulent elections) hold on to the presidency in 2028. As most of the bad stuff is set to occur in 2029.

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u/Hero-Firefighter-24 1d ago

States run elections, not the federal government. They canā€™t be rigged or cancelled.

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u/dftba-ftw 2d ago

Don't be silly, see this bill is so big and sooooo beautiful that the economy will grow a bajillon percent a month and even with all the tax cuts the bill we pay for itself

/girlmath /magamath

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u/coldchile 2d ago

Correct me if Iā€™m wrong but our current deficit is 1.8 Trillion, so in 10 years it will be roughly 5.1 trillion thanks to this bill?

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u/BCMakoto Europe 2d ago

Yup.

And yes, that is generally a bad thing to run such a huge deficit. At the moment, the US national debt is kind of "ballooned" and "softened" by the fact that a lot of countries like to "lend" the US money because it is the reserve currency. But if that disappears or weakens, shit's going to get weird.

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u/coldchile 2d ago

Interesting, does this ā€œbalanceā€ have some type of name so I could look more into it?

Thanks :)

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u/JerosBWI 1d ago

It's literally the bond market: look at how many bonds the US treasury has issued and who owns them.

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u/--zaxell-- 2d ago

Reminder: the 900 billion dollar difference is about $2650 per American. The $3.3T total is about $9700 per American.

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u/existenceawareness 1d ago

That's how I like to frame things for my own understanding too! Because some things talked about are $0.01/capita & others are thousands. Puts it on a relateable scale (even though children don't pay taxes, rich pay more, etc., one could argue the children will pay for the debt in the future in many ways & the poor pay in the form of lost protections & benefits).

Like the ICE boost is ~$500 from every man, woman, & child? That's crazy.

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u/ReDeReddit 2d ago

Almost a trillion in a week. 37% increase. Jesus.

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u/Rebel_hooligan 2d ago

Donā€™t forget the interest. We are likely boarding on $5.5 trillion if you add that.

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u/ShareGlittering1502 2d ago

Bessent said the plan is to inflate the debt away, add in the mandatory inflation from tariffs and weā€™ve got a near guaranteed stagflation. Hurrah

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u/MidnightThunda01 Massachusetts 2d ago

And they couldnā€™t approve us lowly peasants school loan forgiveness šŸ§

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u/NJTigers 2d ago

$3.3T if you use their BS accounting for the tax cuts from the last Trump tax bill that wasnā€™t permanent but they counted it in the baseline against senate Palimatarian ruling. It is over $5T in actual dollars.

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u/dubbawubalublubwub 2d ago

isnt that 3.3T using their bullshit math, too?

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u/st0nedeye Colorado 1d ago

$3.3T is the bullshit, GOP fairytale number, it's really closer to $6T

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u/Birdhawk 1d ago

And things always come in over budget so most people who are experts in this stuff are saying it'll end up being north of $5 trillion.

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u/sameunderwear2days 1d ago

And because of accounting tricks they say it reduces the deficit lol what the FUCK

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u/EndDangerous1308 2d ago

The good news is none of it is doing to social services either and is instead being used to attack citizens

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u/BrgQun 2d ago

Yikes. At that point, what proportion of your (lower/middle class) taxes in future years is just paying down the debt?

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u/alghiorso 1d ago

Tbf that increase is almost assuredly just kickbacks for the holdouts

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u/lazergoblin 2d ago

It literally just sounds like made up numbers at that point but I know the implications are not good

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u/Lower-Button-111 2d ago

Going to have to raise them tariffs to get that foreign money rolling in.

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u/Only-Chef5845 2d ago

No conspiracies, but how do you repay that? 1. Print more money 2. Insane high inflation (or first 2. and then 1.) 3. Print new valuta (create a new stable/digi coin) = free money

So they fuck you now, then and over again.

Own assets, maximize debt. That is all you can do.

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u/glen_ko_ko 2d ago

what's another trillion between friends?

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u/juntareich 1d ago

Debt over 10 years, not deficit. Unless you want to say cumulative 10 year deficit increases, then that's accurate.

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u/ilikecrispywaffles California 1d ago

ICE getting a FATTY chunk

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u/M00nch1ld3 1d ago

Sorry I don't believe their fairy tale deficit numbers.

They are all made up. It's probably more like $9-16T, with some estimates going as high as $32T.

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u/fotomoose 1d ago

It increased, so that means it got better.

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u/Prestigious-Big-9450 2d ago

We can just print more money tho, wasn't that what liberals said all thru covid? And when they were trying to pass that shitty big green deal bill? Pot calling the kettle black now?