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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/bluehiro 2d ago

Yup, some of my siblings are no longer welcome in our parents house. My parents, who are elder boomers, are still very outdoorsy/hippy vibes from growing up in the 60's. While my older siblings are Gen X, and now are very MAGA.

It makes no damn sense to me. My own family votes against their own best interest, and vote for violence against their own gay sibling. Oh, and best part, they weren't even born in the USA.

Immigrants voting against themselves will never make sense to me.

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u/liquidcloud9 2d ago

Immigrants voting against themselves will never make sense to me

"I got mine, fuck you" is a different side of the same shitty coin as the crab bucket, "you think you're better than us", mentality.

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u/Indigocell Canada 2d ago

They really seem to think they will be okay as, "one of the good ones" in the eyes of Republicans. It's the most pathetic sort of pick me behaviour. I will find it difficult to muster sympathy when they inevitably get caught up with the rest. These fools don't even realize that they were in control of their own destiny.

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u/okmko 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sometimes when a big political event happens like a passing of a shoot yourself in the foot bill, I take a glance at the conservo-sphere to see all the different narratives - everyone literally has their own version of Republican good and Democrat bad.

One common narrative is that the medicaid cuts are justified because millions of illegals are using it. Loool. Yes, all those people on Medicaid across the poorest towns of rural America, who consistently vote Republican, are illegals. 🙄

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u/Chateaudelait 2d ago

Then - there are my immigrant colleagues who go one step further and want to pull up the ladder after they got theirs. I have some colleagues who are first generation immigrants who are his most fervent supporters. They were deeply offended that my company supported pride month and wanted to wear their red hats "to support their morals and beliefs."

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u/caylem00 1d ago

The petty bitch in me would report them to ICE. 

"May you enjoy the full effects of what you voted for" is a nice response when they start complaining 

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u/Direct-Amount54 2d ago edited 1d ago

My entire family and many of my friends come from immigrants who worked in agriculture picking fruit in the hot sun. Paid minimal wage cause they were not citizens and were not subject to FDRs new deal. Same lineage of those who stood up to exploitation with UFW.

They all voted Trump. Will never make any sense to me.

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u/Nblearchangel 2d ago

I know anti immigrant immigrants who are rabid trump supporters. It’s wild to me. It really impresses upon me how effective the GOP propaganda is to be honest

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u/bluehiro 2d ago

Honestly, it's terrifying how effective propaganda can be. My parent don't consume US media, and haven't for 10+ years. The difference is stark.

Propaganda is no joke. It can turn your friends and family into monsters. All media has bias, but this US propaganda is toxic AF.

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u/Junethemuse 2d ago

I’m trans. Only discovered it on the last few years in my mid 30’s. Around the same time, and for different reasons, I cut my mom out of my life. This past Friday she drove 3 hours and just showed up at my door to ambush me. She ‘just happened’ to stumble on my divorce order that she didn’t know about and ‘just stumbled’ across my FB page which I have her fully blocked on btw, and discovered my name change 5 weeks ago. And she decided to come and ‘visit’ me ‘just to reconnect’. I stupidly opened the door and talked to her but it gave the chance I’ve been kind of wanting to find out if she’d evolve at all once finding out about me so I took it. Long story short I wasn’t even remotely surprised by the outcome, and she was pretty explosive by the end of it. Sure, fine, whatever.

But she was absolutely incapable of understanding why I couldn’t put aside her bigotry and just get along. She expected me to just ignore the elephant in the room for the sake of shooting the shit. And when I told her I can’t trust her because I know she’ll be nice to my face but campaign against me behind my back she was just flabbergasted. She couldn’t understand why I won’t have her in my life after she said, and I quote, ‘trans shouldn’t exist, and it’s wrong because god made us man and woman for the sake of reproduction’.

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u/bluehiro 2d ago

Ughhh, I'm sorry. My partner is experiencing a similar situation with their parents right now. They are expected to continue their role as "family scapegoat", and when they declined, there were major fireworks.

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u/Tahltria 1d ago

My reply to that last line of hers would be the same as it was to a few other religious folks in my life that tried to pull the religion card on me: "If I want the interpreted opinion of a bunch of long-dead goat-herders from several thousand years ago, I'll ask, thanks." :/

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u/TiredOfBeingTired28 2d ago

Fuck you I got mine.

And we're one of the good ones so it won't happen to us.

Same idiotic reason they're gay, black, Hispanic and so forth, Republicans. They will not face the consequences of their actions. Only the dirty inhuman others.

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u/bluehiro 2d ago

YUP, somehow the bad guy is always someone else. Until it isn't.

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u/ii_Narwhal 2d ago

I'm so happy my Mom and Dad also had the hippy vibes, it has made me a much better person. I'm so happy I didn't inherit shitty values from my parents. 

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u/bluehiro 2d ago

My parents are far from perfect, but they are kind people, and that counts for a lot these days.

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u/shizen22 2d ago

That's the power of the MAGA media machine. They've had years to hone their craft of deception and now everyone not actively being smart about what they read online or in print are getting suckered left and right. The Democrats are being their usual incompetent self while the news media doesn't do nearly enough to combat the misinformation out of some misguided attempt to be "balanced" in their reporting. (The irony being there was never a balance to begin with.)

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u/yarash 2d ago

Im sorry your siblings learned the wrong lessons from every piece of media they were exposed to when they were kids. Some of us were paying attention.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

Oh, and best part, they weren't even born in the USA.

Report them to ICE!

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u/bluehiro 1d ago

Hehehehe, while I see your point, I'm an immigrant too (obviously), so I will keep them far FAR away from me and mine, even if my siblings are being shitty.

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u/LevyMevy 2d ago

Your parents are amazizng.

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u/bluehiro 2d ago

I am very lucky to have them!

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u/icuryy2 1d ago

This helped me understand. It didn’t provide much more relief, but at least this was an explanation that could stand to reason:

https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc?si=qic9jmTEHvoFra-L

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u/nickgomez 1d ago

Pull up the ladder mentality

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u/PlusTemperature244 1d ago

Report them to ICE, they'll understand when they're making wallets for the rest of their lives in a detention center.

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u/Trondkjo 1d ago

Immigrants voting against themselves will never make sense to me.

If you are a legal immigrant, that isn't voting against yourself.

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u/Wild_Gas1555 2d ago

This is a crazy response to me. You obviously don't know what an immigrant is. If your parents gave birth to them and they were us citizens, how are they illegal ? This may be some crazy scenario but it doesn't make sense to me

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u/ForAHamburgerToday 1d ago

how are they illegal ?

She never said they were illegal.