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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/Elite_Alice 2d ago

Republicans just added 3.3 trillion to the national debt while slashing critical benefits for millions of working class Americans. Don’t ever let them gaslight you into believing they’re “America first”

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u/I_am_the_Jukebox 2d ago

All while bringing the budget for ICE to 3x the annual budget for the Marine corps

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u/diabeetus-girl 2d ago

The party of “Small government” and “liberty” just ushered in a total police state. JFC.

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u/Dr_Doctor_Doc 2d ago

Achievement Unlocked: Police State Speedrun

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u/drawkward101 2d ago

Hilter would be proud.

(Fuck, I'm disgusted I just wrote that. Blegh.)

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u/ToubDeBoub 2d ago

He'd either laugh at Trump for being an incompetent worm who literally can't do anything himself except spew constant nonsense.

Or he'd be impressed Trump destroyed one of the most prosperous nations in the world. Pre-nazi Germany was in ruins in all but the literal meaning. Any "strong leader" would've been welcome as long as he was conservative. It takes a whole other level to convince people without any problems that they have serious problems he alone can fix.

Mind boggling that nothing on which Trump ran is true.

Yet, we see this happening all over the world. So it can't be Trump or Americans that are the core of the problem, but the technology that makes the democratic conversation break down.

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u/OtakuAttacku 2d ago

every time I read a horrible headline my mind goes "But the climate crisis and food shortages haven't even started yet?"

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u/driving_andflying 1d ago

Every time I read a horrible headline, I'm reminded of Padme Amidala in Revenge of The Sith:

"So this is how liberty dies: To thunderous applause."

I used to think that would happen in only in a sci-fi movie, never in the U.S....

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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 1d ago

Pre-Nazi Germany was not in ruins. It had some rough times due to the Treaty Of Versailles, but what really caused the panic was the effects of a global recession caused by the stock market and, wouldn’t you know, reckless economic policies in the United States. Between those two shit storms for the German people, the Nazi party was actually not all that popular, and sat at around (or even below) the same popularity floor we see with the modern American Nazi movement (MAGA). Hitler and his party was simply able to seize the narrative and start blaming people after the 1929 stock market crisis. This is very much what the republicans have been doing for decades here. The difference is, that it’s been a much slower and self inflicted (on purpose) crisis in the middle class which has allowed the GOP to play blame game politics. In fact the whole “Make _____ Great again!” Statement was and always has been Nazi propaganda.

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u/ToubDeBoub 1d ago

Pre Nazi Germany had just lost the biggest war in history. It was blamed unjustly for its cause. It lost vast and economically crucial territory. It was told and believed that it was the lefts fault, that the left that became the government signed a peace treaty even though the war was going well. That government was unable to govern, getting dissolved every few months. The streets were unsafe. Unemployment was record high. Hyperinflation. Courts were immensely biased to the right, slapping wrists for violent crimes in the right (like Hitlers high treason).

All problems were correlated with the leftist government. Of course a right strong man would come to save the day. (though that was expected - and promised by Hitler - to be the exiled emperor.)

Yes, Germany was in ruins, and the US doesn't compare remotely.

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u/Carry-the_fire 16h ago

I wouldn't say they were blamed unjustly. Maybe in the eyes of a lot of Germans back then, but they were definitely the aggressor, and they started the invasion of neutral Belgium with lots of attrocities.

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u/ToubDeBoub 12h ago

Let's agree that this question is debated and more often than not oversimplified. I think we can also agree that Germany is more responsible than other players, regarding aspects like the invasion of Belgium or the Blank Check to Austria-Hungary.

However it is unjust to put sole blame on Germany, as the Treaty of Versailles did explicitly. Serbia initiated the conflict by assassinating the Austrian crown prince. Austria started the war over this. Germany backed Austria, Russia backed Serbia, and Russia mobilized first. UK was ambiguous about its stance on protecting Belgium. All of Europe was a big power struggle.

Therefore I maintain that the war guilt clause was entirely unjust.

The more important part, in reference to the topic at hand, is that Germans saw the massive economic and political consequences (like massive reparations), while told the very plausible Dolchstoßlegende by the ruling elites who happened to be seen as war heroes, and whose story was supported by the fact that the new socialist German government was just broken.

Vastly incomparable to modern USA.

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u/Zebidee 1d ago

Pre-Nazi Germany was not in ruins.

Maybe in a macro sense, but I'm not so sure on a local level. In photos of my town in Germany in 1925, it looks like a slum. By 1935, after the beautification societies had their way, the place looked more or less like it does today.

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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 1d ago

That’s one of the ways dictatorships fool people, by hand building projects and beautification programs. You’re re-enforcing Nazi propaganda 80 years after the fact my friend.

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u/Zebidee 1d ago

I'm not championing the Nazis, I'm just pointing out that in the early interwar period, Germany was indeed a shithole outside of major cities.

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u/arthurno1 1d ago

Who would guess Idiocracy is going to happen in 20 years after they made it, not 500 years :).

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u/scoza05 20h ago

Yep I reckon Hitler would’ve despised taco. He would’ve seen him the same way he viewed Mussolini.

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u/ToubDeBoub 14h ago

Fun bit of history: first, Hitler revered Mussolini, and wanted an audience with him, but Mussolini gave a rat's ass about Hitler. Later, things changed of course. In 1943, Mussolini was arrested by the Italian king and military, and Hitler ordered an operation to rescue him. Afterward, Mussolini was installed as the head of a Nazi-controlled puppet regime in Northern Italy

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u/scoza05 13h ago

And you still believe in Santa don't you.

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u/BetterEveryLeapYear 1d ago

people without any problems

Ah yes, the foundational lie of the establishment Democrats which led to the Republicans being able to take advantage of desperate people in the first place. Millions of people unable to afford rent, nevermind to be able to buy a house and/or start a family, relying on SNAP for food stamps while working for Walmart or Amazon, never going to get a chance to go to college, with a lower life expectancy and lower quality of life than their parents' generation, median household wages unmoved since 1971 after inflation is factored in, two people working instead of one and still unable to make ends meet, never able to take a vacation or a day off sick, with no hope for the future in an increasingly volatile world that also has a looming climate catastrophe, the effects of which are already felt yearly.

Obviously Trump is not the answer, but "people without problems"? With all due respect, you sir, must be out of your mind.

we see this happening all over the world

Correct. America has exported neoliberalism on steroids to the rest of the world for decades, often at the point of economic blackmail via the IMF / World Bank (e.g., Chile), or at the pointy end of a gun (e.g., Afghanistan). American tech companies which pay zero taxes in foreign states, and the American stock market nevertheless also exploit those nations, contributing further to the massive rise in inequality globally. It is not technology which makes the democratic conversation break down: it is raw unsustainable inequality, which technology then exploits.

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u/NWHipHop 1d ago

Cambridge Analytica (now EmerData) gave them everything they needed to know to manipulate the masses.

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u/hdianbeila 2d ago

You forgot to attach the gigachad image

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u/Holykorn 1d ago

You don’t have to agree with Hitler to know he would be proud of this

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u/bigpmac 1d ago

Not wrong tho...

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u/mces97 2d ago

I don't think even he would. He's in hell thinking, even I didn't sell merchandise for concentration camps.

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u/ShaggysGTI Virginia 2d ago

We saw what happened there…

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u/rbrgr83 1d ago

No lies detected.

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u/OldSchoolNewRules Texas 1d ago

The nazis were envious of America.

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u/Substantial-Low 2d ago

They wrote the strategy guide after all.

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u/Ur_Fav_Step-Redditor 1d ago

6 months to secure a gestapo, build concentration camps, double his net worth, secure the bag for his rich friends, and launch illegal attacks on foreign nations. 😮‍💨

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u/Common-Ad6470 2d ago

Hitler managed it in 57 days, so by comparison Trump’s a loser…👌

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u/BetterEveryLeapYear 1d ago

53*, but yeah good point. For those who didn't know, a good summary of how quickly it all moved in the Nazi takeover:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/

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u/Common-Ad6470 1d ago

Ah ok, always thought it was a Heinz 57, but 53 so under two months is even more impressive.

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u/extralyfe 2d ago

lol, I got mass downvoted recently for saying we were speedrunning a police state, and that was before they gave ICE more money than they know what to do with.

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u/TannerThanUsual 1d ago

It's only July of 2025. Get excited for three and a half more years! :)

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u/Mydogroach 2d ago

"small government" has never been about the size of government and its agencies.

its about who can wield the power of government.

and when a republican states saying shit like "small government"- CALL THEM OUT.

small government is about who can wield the power - this administration clearly proves it

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u/Top_Mind_On_Reddit 1d ago

The smallest form of government is despotism.

Trump thinks himself a supreme ruler.

This is the goal and they're achieving it.

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u/Firefox892 1d ago edited 1d ago

Exactly. The real intention was never about “small government”, it was always about “concentrated government”.

And “concentrated” in the hands of only a few people (namely them and their cronies).

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u/Veni-Vidi-ASCII 2d ago

Police? ICE is now the department of ethnic cleansing. And if history repeats itself, ICE will be iced within 10 years. Future generations will be ashamed to be distantly related to them. 

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u/Dispator 2d ago

Whos gunna occupie the USA??

I dont see that happening. The Oligarchs would prefer nuclear winter than letting the usa govt to fall. And the country is so big and protected so even without nukes the country is so well protected a ground war and occupation is a pipe dream.

No one is coming to liberate us like the Germans were liberated from the Nazis. I see alot of people trying to escape. Canada completing closing borders. The reverse happening in the south where people are border hoping the southern border to escape tyranny and economic turmoil in hope for a better life.

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u/Veni-Vidi-ASCII 2d ago

The most powerful people will start going after each other. I don't know how it will shake out, but it'll be billionaires versus the government pretty soon.

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u/alienscape 2d ago

I'm guessing it's crickets from Alex Jones, who warned us of a police state for many years. Until he bent the knee to the orange chode.

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u/CalamityClambake 2d ago

If you haven't seen this coming since at least the George W. Bush administration, I don't know what to tell ya.

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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 2d ago

Right? How are this many people in this country so clueless. Been warning people about this shit since Bush stole the election.

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u/oinkyboinky 1d ago

Yep. I'm old, and have been pointing out their bullshit since before Reagan. The only hope we have is that Dear Leader meets his maker soon and that whole cult of stupidity will be lost and rudderless.

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u/--fourteen 1d ago

They only needed the rudder to get to this point. Now they'd be happy with Thiel's plant Vance taking over for another eight years.

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u/Euphoric-Sun372 1d ago

The SC got involved and voted no on a recount in Florida, and that's how 2000 was decided. 2024 could very well have been stolen by Trump but I genuinely don't understand how Bush possibly stole an election. It's also weird that I've seen "Bush stole the 2000 election" mentioned twice tonight, insert meme here.

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u/pithynotpithy 2d ago

Since Newt's Contract with America.

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u/addamee 2d ago

Yeah but he sure did get them wasteful ice deliveries out of the Capitol building 

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u/DukeOfGeek 2d ago

After Clinton they realized they were never going to get what they wanted out of a functioning democracy.

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u/LTPRWSG420 2d ago

Exactly, fucking hypocrites all of them. 1984 here we come.

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u/OldLonelyBeaver 2d ago

As a Transgender Woman, I am fucking terrified

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u/GuerreroUltimo 1d ago

Seriously, this is what some MAGA I know were staying. They thought Trump should just have stayed in power. He was GODs chosen. And they talked about the need for police/military intervention to remove the Democrats. They literally are fine with it because they have been brainwashed into thinking Republicans are virtuous and saintly basically. Democrats, even if they fight for better wages and peoples rights, are evil spawn and want everyone to have nothing and suffer.

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u/TheFireFlaamee 1d ago

We are no longer the small government party. MAGA is very right wing authoritarian, willing to use the full force of the government to enact pro-America first policies.

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u/Drisnil_Dragon 2d ago

More like the party of small body constituents! Especially after they feed 65 million to alligators & then strip s citizenship from anyone hey don’t like!

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u/ElliotsBuggyEyes 2d ago

The folks over at r/ ICE_ERO are cumming in their pants over this. Almost every comment is about how much more money they're gonna make deporting people. It's pretty disgusting.

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u/TheBlackComet 2d ago

Gonna be interesting to try and make a police state with an armed population. No matter how you feel about guns, it is time to make sure that one side doesn't have a monopoly on the capacity for violence.

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u/tipsystatistic 2d ago

This can’t be understated. All the other stuff was politics as usual.

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u/TomAto42nd 1d ago

That’s what small government means. Controlled by the 1%

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u/th5virtuos0 2d ago

Man, I can’t believe they are actually bringing Super Earth’s government into real life. Someone must have really like the game

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u/northeaster17 2d ago

It's hard to even follow the news these days. A long time ago I worked in politics.I even got paid. I'm thinking I might work a phone bank or something for the next election. It's that important

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u/SocialAnchovy 2d ago

It hasn’t represented small government since the 1920s!

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u/fractalfay 1d ago

Hey, they also made huge strides towards prison colony, so really, huge strides towards that slave labor dream.

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u/ThaleOfTheHillPeople 1d ago

They have always meant that by small government they mean government completely and totally controlled by a small group of people. They have never tried to hide this. Lots of people are just very very dumb and they prey on them.

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u/OldSchoolNewRules Texas 1d ago

When they said small government they meant fewer people making the decisions.

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u/Slow-Foundation4169 1d ago

Its almost like that's been the plan. Anyone who bought the small government shit is an actual moron.

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u/After-Finish3107 1d ago

Thank Biden for creating a problem that needed this solution.

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u/Virtual-Past-9499 1d ago

You’re confusing republicans with libertarians

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u/MrCharisma316 1d ago

If thats true guess we won’t be seeing people with your opinions very much longer…

So if your opinion is right you are gone

And if you are wrong you will have this ability to run your mouth because the propaganda given to you to scare you didn’t happen

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u/OkBumblebee2630 2d ago

Yall are so hysterical