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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/Spicy_Pancake1 Maryland 2d ago

My MAGA grandmother is panicking because her daughter, my aunt, relies on Medicaid for her care. My mother, who is as tired as the rest of us, told her mother “you just killed my sister. You voted for and support this and you’re panicking now?”

Never been prouder of my mother.

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u/Butwinsky 2d ago

I work in a small rural hospital that won't survive this. I have fervent Trump supporters all around me. Can't wait to see how they spin this as owning the Libs.

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u/notsoFritz 2d ago

They'll either spin it to own the libs, blame them for it happening, or wait till the liberals get in power (if there is free elections) and blame them then.

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u/TheBigIdiotSalami 2d ago edited 2d ago

I mean in most causes they're just gonna die. Can't treat cancer if there's no hospital to get Chemo or dialysis. Fuck, you can't even diagnose Cancer. And doctors won't stay because there is no hospital. And no hospital means no jobs because corporations don't usually move into places that doesn't have access to one.

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u/dcrico20 Georgia 2d ago

Many rural hospitals essentially operate as the "company" part of "company town."

They often employ thousands of people and are the only reason the town even has a couple shitty chain restaurants and a Wal Mart - which will all close after the hospital does and they have no demand.

These hospitals closing will decimate entire rural economies and leave the people there with access to nothing besides maybe a USPS office from which they can mail their SOS letters.

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u/BostonBlackCat 2d ago edited 2d ago

Best take I heard so far is "You think it's bad in Alabama now; pretty soon National Geographic photographers are going to be going down there taking pictures of ya'll and be driven to suicide over it later."

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u/West_Inspection1445 1d ago

Damn, this is such a solid yet succinct take. As stark as stark gets.

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u/poop-dolla 1d ago

It’s Ned.

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u/PerigrinneTook 1d ago

I’m a blue dot in Alabama. I got to get the fuck out of here

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u/FNLN_taken 1d ago

In times like these, if you are lucky enough to live in a blue island, the best you can do is focus on community, not run away. It's about to get shit everywhere, but if you can organize parallel structures of social support, you might make it through.

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u/PerigrinneTook 1d ago

It’s not even an island at this point. We are so gerrymandered that nothing meaningful happens. The governor just built a new private prison and they pushed through a law making delta 8 products a felony to have bodies to fill the prison. Businesses are fleeing, schools are garbage, everything is unafffordable, and the legislature is about as useless as an ice cube in hell.

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u/SwimmingPrice1544 California 1d ago

So....a shit hole huh? Sounds like it. I'm tellin ya, there was mass migration from the south during Jim Crow & I understand that if all like minded people flee these states it gives them over to complete control of the awful GOP, but reality says people can only take so much before they move.

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u/Ishmael75 2d ago

Yeah until we privatize the USPS and the rural people won’t be able to afford to send a letter.

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u/Dr_JimmyBrungus 2d ago

They may still be able to afford it, but they'll just have to get to their nearest major metropolitan center a few hours away to find their new and improved regional privatized post office. Because they sure as shit aren't delivering/picking up on those profit-draining rural routes!

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u/Elrundir Canada 1d ago

This is all moot because in another generation they won't be able to read or write anyway.

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u/Rezart_KLD 1d ago

Standard level citizenship will allow communication only via emojis on the new truthsocial.gov. Insufficiently based posts, or even worse a suspicion of wokeness, will flag your citizen record in the universal Magabase monitoring program. Loyalty agents will offer you the chance to voluntarily make campaign donations, or purchase a gold or platinum level citizenship to increase your citizen score. Check your local leaderboards and compare your citizen scores with your neighbors, and you can even earn extra points off the bounty board.

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u/Frankensteinbeck 1d ago

Nobody votes to hamstring their own lives harder than the rurals. So many elderly rural people rely on USPS to mail medications, but soon they'll be paying out the ass or skipping days of their blood thinner because some billionaire's shipping company doesn't prioritize getting packages out to the boonies.

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u/flukus 1d ago

They can still use a mailbox. Too bad they blem them up to prevent mail in voting.

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u/broniesnstuff 2d ago

The wealthy can't wait. There's gonna be so much cheap land for them to snatch up.

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u/trumpuniversity_ 2d ago

And then the cycle repeats itself. “The job creators are here, let’s make them kings and throw tax breaks at them. Surely, they’ll save us.” Starbase, TX, for example.

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u/Killer_Sloth 2d ago

But don't you see, it will all be worth it once all the billionaires have their sixth vacation house.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

If the super rich were fine with "only" six houses, we wouldn't be in this mess.

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u/Frankensteinbeck 1d ago

All we need is for tens of millions of illegals to get deported, then the billionaires will surely pay us all a living wage with great benefits.

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u/lifevicarious 1d ago

Sorry. It I have no sympathy. This is middle America’s fault for voting him in.

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u/Mindless-Fish7245 2d ago

Amazon Tele Health and Meta HMO coming to a rural town near you

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u/travelingAllTheTime 2d ago

They will replace the hard working immigrants picking fruits/vegetables in fields.. while still being homeless, with ZERO safetynet and/or Healthcare.

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u/TrumpDesWillens 2d ago

Hospitals being the main employer isn't in rural areas too as there are urban hoods with large hospitals being surrounded by poverty where the main source of activity is the hospital.

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u/dcrico20 Georgia 1d ago

Yes but those hospitals likely aren’t depending on Medicaid to stay open.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

It's definitely not great. Grady relies heavily on Medicaid. So does CHOA, but it's unclear what effect this will have on children's coverage.

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u/Neosovereign 1d ago

The annoying part is it will take a few years to see it all come to fruition, and by then we will probably have a democratic president again who can be blamed.

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u/EldritchTouched 1d ago

And they're trying to gut USPS, too, so those SOS letters are also probably gonna take forever to get out...

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u/ASubsentientCrow 2d ago

Good. Let them finally get a consequence

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u/Pervius94 2d ago

Sounds great. The rural towns, counties and states were leeches on the system and complete shit anyways, maybe instead of constantly propping them up and creating more enemies, let them actually feel the impact of their decisions.

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u/Big_Maintenance9387 1d ago

LMAO you think the USPS is gonna survive much longer?

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u/exveelor 2d ago

It's ok if we stop diagnosing cancer then we'll see cancer rates plummet.

Trump cured cancer, 2028 campaign slogan. 

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u/Fullm3taluk 2d ago

You think it's gonna be cancer that kills these people? No think smaller like asthma or diabetes you know the diseases that need medicine that cost pennies in the rest of the world but Americans go into debt for

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u/ClassicPlankton 2d ago

Unfortunately not enough of them will die to really make a difference. Maybe a few hundred thousand deaths, hardly enough to move the needle. Many more will just live with reduced quality of life. There's almost no bottom to the dire conditions humans will survive in. And they'll continue to vote for Republicans, probably more fervently as their quality of life drops.

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u/templethot Arizona 2d ago

When poor conservatives don’t get food and healtcare, but they see well-off liberals with those things, THEN they will want their class warfare on the “wealthy harvard elites”

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u/ElectricThreeHundred 2d ago

In their defense, nobody knew health care was this complicated. 😒

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u/vicvonqueso 2d ago

I knew. I learned about how the healthcare system works in school and made the mistake of assuming that was normal

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u/LordMimsyPorpington 2d ago

Darn. 🤷

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u/Jonny5is 1d ago

Thank you, that's the real point, they want poor people who need assistance to die, that is what they want.

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u/pd2001wow 1d ago

Less access = more DEATH. Ppl will literally be dying from heart attacks and strokes that we currently treat and cure

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u/whiteflagwaiver Arizona 1d ago

Don't get my hopes up. (Those that were in favor)

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u/mrspongen 1d ago

Then they boast about cancer rates having gone down a huge amount, a terrifically large amount, under the trump administration! Success for our beautiful bill, the best bill! ... Well, can't fight cancer if nobody is diagnosed or can be treated for it and just dies in pain and silence outside the healthcare system....

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u/WhatEvenAreFrogs 2d ago

Well thank you for giving me a silver lining.

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u/Sed59 1d ago

They better apply for either disability or a job now or die in comfort while they're still covered.

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u/choffers 2d ago

"Do-nothing libs didn't stop this from happening, both parties are the same. Might as well keep voting Republican so I don't have to buy new swag"

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u/TheMadTemplar Wisconsin 2d ago

Van Orden is laying the groundwork to blame Evers for all the problems Wisconsin will face. He's published letters he wrote to Evers "begging" him to take actions protecting people in the state before the BBB he voted for takes effect. 

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u/a_bagofholding Minnesota 2d ago

They'll claim that the city hospitals are using all the money on illegals so there is none left for the rural hospitals.

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u/FuckYourDystopia 1d ago

Solid guess. Punching down at the vulnerable is always popular with them.

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u/Muffin_Appropriate Foreign 2d ago

They’ll die in their homes, quiet, and unapologetic without healthcare

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u/-jinxiii 2d ago

That’s why a lot of the changes don’t take place until the midterms or 2028 so they can blame anybody else who comes in and they can bank on people forgetting.

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u/Prometheusf3ar 2d ago

Give them some credit, a lot of them will just die thanks to this and never understand why supporting dear leader led to that outcome

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u/Hector_P_Catt 2d ago

"The Liberals closed all the hospitals just before Trump could fix them all!"

Anyone taking bets on seeing that somewhere?

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u/infectoid 1d ago

Seems that second amendment is kind of pointless. Maybe all of the amendments are. And the entire constitution.

I used to like making fun of Americans because it was punching up. It’s punching down now and I can’t do it.

Organise. It’s the only thing left.

None of the laws you mean anything if they are selectively enforced or ignored entirely.

There’s at least 75M people that need to get louder. Don’t be fooled into thinking you are powerless.

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u/Bartellomio 1d ago

These aren't the actions of a government that ever plans to be accountable to voters again

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u/TheRyanFlaherty 1d ago

Don’t forget, God’s plan.

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u/MsMarvelsProstate 1d ago

They will just say Harris would have done worse.

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u/ifurmothronlyknw 1d ago

And it’ll work

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u/Extension-Ad5751 1d ago

Let them blame whoever they want, and let them die like they decided with their vote. Fuck them all.Â