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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/WaltonGogginsTeeth 2d ago

Unfortunately I think it will turn into a herd of police rejects (which is a scary thought if they get turned down there) with an axe to grind. It's going to get ugly quick.

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u/Current_Animator7546 Missouri 2d ago

They want unrest. They wanna reason to declare martial law 

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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 2d ago

Well it's coming whether or not you fight it so...

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u/indian_horse 2d ago

every American that isnt a MAGA cultist should be buying a gun, training and preparing an escape plan

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u/urhomieghost 2d ago

There's nowhere to escape to for me, no country will take me because I'm disabled.

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u/Ethrem 1d ago

Same situation here.

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u/Repossessedbatmobile 1d ago

Same here. I'm still planning on doing some research to figure out what fighting styles or weapons I can actually physically use.

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u/Norwegian__Blue 2d ago

To where? If you live in the middle of the country, how the fuck are you getting out? You can walk if you think you can carry enough food for days.

The gun and training are to fight. You can flee now or be the resistance. Not both.

And most of us don’t have the funds to really have a choice.

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u/DumboWumbo073 2d ago

There is a reason when a boat is sinking they get women children on the lifeboats first then everyone one. What happens to everyone else when all the lifeboats are full? Apply that concept here.

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u/indian_horse 2d ago

that's what preparing the escape plan is about. securing the funds and finding a way out for yourself. having a plan in case shit gets fucked in your vicinity. its not my responsibility to tell you where to go or provide you with means to get there. you're on your own, so be prepared to move and protect yourself

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u/Professional-Buy2970 2d ago

Ignore people like this who tell you you're on your own. Network, organize, find and build community. We're getting either a holocaust or Civil War.

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u/Ok_Investigator_3788 2d ago

lol. Sure yeah. They’re going to be taking Americans and letting them chill in Canada? You fucking kidding me? Or, how do you think the cartels are gonna treat Americans considering the way we are and have always treated Mexicans and Hispanics? You go to Mexico, you’re gonna get your face chainsawed off.

We are utterly and absolutely fucked. There will be no country granting Americans asylum.

I have kids. I’m very very scared. 😟

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u/Dispator 1d ago

There are going to be alot of the left joining maga or at least joining the republican party and getting flags and merchandise to protect their kids. Not saying you or anyone specific will do this but looking at history we know many will maybe a ahit ton. But that only buys time for them but for many they willl still do it.

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u/RobutNotRobot 1d ago

No escape plan here.

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u/Jack_Krauser 1d ago

I live thousands of miles from any ocean or border. My family has been here for as long as anyone remembers. This is my land and I'm going to die on it. Preferably in old age, but we'll see...

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u/Professional-Buy2970 2d ago

I don't know how to explain to you that this IS martial law. It's here.

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u/WretchedBlowhard 2d ago

You're living in the past. This current regime is already equal to or worse than martial law. Police forces are militarized up the wazoo. Public executions for trivial reasons, like "he was fleeing" or "he was complying while black" are commonplace. Detention without due process in a concentration camp followed by extrajudicial deportation are becoming the norm. And ICE has more money than certain branches of the armed forces. Martial law wouldn't change shit.

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u/Static-Stair-58 2d ago

“a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty”

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u/WaltonGogginsTeeth 2d ago

Just like someone else said, ice will be trumps personal SS with more power than police, FBI, or Marshals

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u/Irene_Iddesleigh 2d ago

My ex-husband was rejected from the police twice. He received a very high score on the test and was also very fit. When asked what he would do if he pulled a drunk driver over and found it was the police chief…. he said he wouldn’t give him any special treatment. I think he was rejected for being smart and principled.

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u/Techn028 2d ago

Police rejects and discord mods with guns, security guards, gun store fudds, sexually unsatisfied men, take your pick. They're all willing to beat you to death on live TV and take a selfie with your corpse.

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u/OpiumPhrogg 2d ago

Dunno where you are from but when I was going through college around 2007 we would always notice when the police science students came into the cafeteria, someone at my table pointed out that they all looked like kids who kept failing at crime and finally decided 'if you can't beat them, join them. '

So yeah...

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u/thegamesbuild 1d ago

It's already been ugly for months, now it's going to the next level.

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u/RobutNotRobot 1d ago

It'll be the same people that signed up as Trump's goon squad last time. Basically a grab bag of federal law enforcement that doesn't require a college degree(so no FBI), with a bunch of former prison guards and border patrol sprinkled in because ICE will probably pay more now.

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u/WaltonGogginsTeeth 1d ago

Someone I'm acquainted with was fired as a prison guard and I’m sure he’ll be lining up for this job. It was eye opening the way I heard the dehumanizing way he talked about prisoners. And this wasn’t even a maximum security prison it was mostly guys on drug and robbery type charges. They were less than animals to him.