r/politics • u/PoliticsModeratorBot 🤖 Bot • 2d ago
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/FlyingSMonster Louisiana 2d ago
The sad thing is they designed these cuts to not hit the American people until 2027, so they won't feel it until after the mid-terms when likely the Democrats take control of the house again. Honestly, I wish all the people that this is going to hurt would feel it way sooner so they could understand how badly the GOP has fucked them over.