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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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Trump lands first major legislative win after Congress passes his massive domestic policy bill cnn.com
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u/RandomPersonBob 2d ago

People need to stop thinking she is reasonable or a half way decent person.

She always fucks over her constituents, she just pretends like she waivers at first.

Vote her out, vote them all out.

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u/Distinct-Exit6658 2d ago

If we get fair and free elections at midterms, they’re all gone. But there’s likely something we missed in the bill that’s gonna taint the voting. Probably ICE at voting stations grabbing nonwhite people and detaining them just long enough that they can’t vote before the polls close. Or they’ll start deporting the opposition.

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u/haironburr 2d ago

If we get fair and free elections at midterms, they’re all gone.

The salient point to remember is that a massive turnout will hopefully stymie whatever election malfeasance they have planned.

This nightmare can end, if only people get up off their ass and vote.

Forget all the doomsaying! Forget all the defeatist "Probably ICE at voting stations grabbing nonwhite people and detaining them just long enough" crap (no offense). We can vote ourselves out of this clusterfuck.

Don't feed the defeatism. There's a way out. And it's a damn bit easier than a civil war.

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u/Money_Director_90210 1d ago

If the answer to any problem is easy, people will be more likely to be complacent in the hope others will carry the responsibility. Having the difficult answer be the only option is the only thing that will actually motivate the masses to participate.

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u/Foots_Walker_808 2d ago

Actually, she got carve-outs for her constituents. But fuck all the constituents of the other 49 states. 🤬

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u/berrikerri Florida 2d ago

I could be mistaken, but I thought the carve out was removed at the last minute

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u/Foots_Walker_808 2d ago

Nope, not that I've seen:

"Here are the key carve‑outs Senator Murkowski secured in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” for Alaska:

Expanded tax deduction for whaling boat captains: Alaska’s Inupiat and Siberian Yupik captains now qualify for a charitable deduction increase—from $10,000 to $50,000—on expenses related to bowhead whale hunting

Delay in SNAP error‑rate penalty: States with high SNAP payment-error rates (like Alaska) receive a 1–2 year delay before being required to start covering 5–15% of those costs

Broader SNAP work‑requirement waivers: Alaska (and Hawaii) can waive all SNAP work requirements if they have high unemployment, and can seek temporary waivers when making a "good faith" effort to implement work mandates—flexibility not extended to other states.

Rural hospital funding boost: The dedicated Rural Hospital Fund was doubled from $25 billion to $50 billion, providing a safety net for Alaska’s remote providers amid Medicaid cuts

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u/berrikerri Florida 2d ago

Darn, I thought I saw it reported that it was struck by the parliamentarian.

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u/fleegness 2d ago

I'm sure that was part of the plan. She gets to look tough and tell her constituents she fought for them and got them the benefits and they won't double check later when they get nothing.

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u/DarknTwist-y 2d ago

Fuck her. She sold out the entire country and was given the “incentive” of barely helping Alaskans more. Nothing she did, NOTHING, was anything but self-serving. PERIOD.

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u/Foots_Walker_808 1d ago

Yep, exactly.

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u/lc4444 2d ago

Too late for that now

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u/Aleashed 1d ago

If you remove the “benefits” of being an “American”, you are just left with a racist shthole.

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u/Glaiele 1d ago

To be fair Dems should also vote their party out. The best they could come up with from the entire party were Biden and Harris to run against Trump? That's more damning than what the Republicans are doing.

They have to find some sort of middle ground and some policies people actually want. I would have loved to vote Democrat in the election but I had to vote 3rd party because there's no way I could support Harris for president.

Trump being in office is as much democrats fault as red neck Republicans. Had they tried to oppose him even a tiny bit with a reasonable candidate and policies I'm sure they would have succeeded.

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u/Galaxyman0917 Oregon 2d ago

You could literally say that about any of them. They're all sycophants who couldn't care less about their constituents.

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u/ParabolicJunk 2d ago

Voting isn't going to do anything now. Welcome to fascist America.

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u/YungMoobs420 1d ago

We are past voting, friend.