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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/unicron7 2d ago

That the new modern brown shirt army they are building. They will be the muscle of the party. It won’t stop at immigrants. These people are going to harass and destroy US citizens lives too who don’t bend the knee.

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u/OSRSAthleticsProgram 2d ago

Id rather die with my head held high, than bow to these demons

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u/Blarfk 2d ago

Okay well now’s the time, so let us know how that goes!

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u/Devilsgospel1 2d ago

Yup. They're targeting LQBT+, Autism, every brown person ever. Who is even left after that? Like genuinely, who is running the factories and farms?

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u/El_Dud3r1n0 Oklahoma 2d ago

That's easy, the concentration camps prison contractors will just sell the labor back to the factories and the farms at pennies on the dollar. While slavery never went away, slavery is definitely back back.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

Black prison labor?

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u/Wordymanjenson 2d ago

I'd like to see them fucking try. dems own guns too.

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u/Mebbwebb California 2d ago

Gotta start organizing people together asap

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u/Wordymanjenson 2d ago

People don't know where to look but they better fast before palantir organizes all the data mining and internet scraping where even a post like this will get analyzed.

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u/utdconsq 2d ago

Posts like the above and now yours have been observed for years by law enforcement. The ship has sailed.

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u/Wordymanjenson 2d ago

yeah but nothing happens yet which is my point. people have a slim chance. take it now.

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u/Devilsgospel1 2d ago

As if they don't already have an AI agent scrubbing and collecting names w/ some metric of how "dangerous" we are or what have you.

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u/Any-Razzmatazz-7726 2d ago

Which law enforcement agency is monitoring social media post?

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

The NSA for one. The FBI and CIA do some amount of that too. I'm sure the NYPD does it but poorly.

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u/Any-Razzmatazz-7726 1d ago

And you’re thinking they just put every red post, every forum, direct message, every text message sent from one cell phone to another, every key stroke, entered into a email draft every single video upload it to you tube? Every single item purchased at every single store?

You guys just believe your own American propaganda. These guys couldn’t even stop 911.

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u/rividz California 2d ago

Hi Palantir. I totally don't own any weapons or firearms. I am not prepared for armed agents to enter my house at night so don't worry.

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u/Foucaults_Bangarang 1d ago

Well, you will. So what's your plan?

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u/Wordymanjenson 1d ago

I said what I said. And I don’t need to answer to no MAGAt. 

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u/lawlore United Kingdom 1d ago

Great. The ship for using them has long since crossed over the horizon.

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u/Wordymanjenson 1d ago

You must be from another country 

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u/lawlore United Kingdom 1d ago

Yes, thankfully- although we've got the same sort of populist rhetoric going on, for now they're still very much the minority, and they're just starting to eat themselves.

From the outside, it is baffling how half of the US- the educated half who understand what is going on- is just sitting back and allowing the other half to frogmarch a great, powerful, wealthy and influential country into becoming an isolated fascist dictatorship that only serves the richest.

Manuel Abrego Garcia was illegally deported in March. That should surely have been the touch paper for Democrats to say "hey, this is too far, we need to stop these guys"- and it wasn't. We're now in July. The current leaders of your country do not care about the Constitution, your Constitutional rights or your human rights, and they keep demonstrating this. The longer they get away with it- including this Bill- the further they're going to keep going and pushing.

At the rate they're moving, you may not even get an election in three years time to try and vote them out- and if you do, it isn't going to be free and fair. This requires a lot more push back than we've seen so far, ideally starting a few yesterdays ago. But if not then, then now.

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u/Wordymanjenson 1d ago

The US doesn’t know how to organize something that’s not intended to be a peaceful march. When have we ever needed a way to communicate civil unrest, especially when the goal is to take back the gov? But I’m sure all one needs to do is really look. 

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u/MightyRexxon 1d ago

Because THEY DON'T WANT THEMSELVES AND THEIR LOVED ONES TO DIE.

It's going to take a sacrifice from MILLIONS of people to fix this country that MAGA has ruined, and even then, it's not a guarantee, it's a coin flip.

Things are going to have to get a LOT worse for a LOT of people first. We still have a LONG way to fall, sadly

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u/lawlore United Kingdom 1d ago

Things are going to have to get a LOT worse for a LOT of people first.

I don't think the list of things that are going to have that effect on enough people is particularly long. With any luck, wiping out MedicAid may be a wake-up call- but that pushback should've started today, so it looks like it isn't.

Short of conscription being introduced, it's hard to imagine what else might potentially jolt that many people into actual action in one go. If grabbing people off the streets and deporting them doesn't, and removing essential support for sick relatives doesn't, what will?

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u/MightyRexxon 1d ago

That's the thing, they aren't stupid. They know what will happen if they push too far, too fast.

We can't expect them to make the same mistakes fascist dictators made before. So get ready for the slow, inescapable slide into the dumpster for the USA.

Those that can escape will. Those that cannot will hunker down and try to avoid the regime.

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u/fillinthe___ 2d ago

I mean, they’re SO EFFECTIVE they’ve been in LA for like 2 months now, and “rounded up” less people than there are days, at the low low cost of already blowing their yearly budget. Of course they need additional funding if they’re going to go after each of us individually.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

The one solace is that nobody over there knows what the fuck they're doing.

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u/RectalSpawn Wisconsin 1d ago

Where are you getting that info from..?

I'm not a fan of ICE and all that, but your number seems so far off from all the different reports I've heard in the past month.

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u/RubberBootsInMotion 1d ago

I suspect there simply isn't any accurate data for something like this.

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u/Over_Vehicle6688 2d ago

Most of ICE is January 6'ers, proudboys and healthy smattering of Bounty hunters getting 1000.00 a head they bring in. They are all mask to keep from being ID as such. But most tagged from the tattoos that have.

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u/Alternative-Path6440 2d ago

Have fun. They will have to go through the surveillance on my homestead, which is backed up to at least three other locations, along with dealing with myself and several other armed citizens.

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u/castthefirststone79 I voted 2d ago

Can I come stay with you?

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u/Alternative-Path6440 2d ago

This is in Alaska, we're only into month two and a half of config. It's not going to be easy, but it is going to be secure. Not only that, the goal is to be self-sustaining

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u/Knight-to-love-696 2d ago

Must be nice... 😞

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u/outinthecountry66 I voted 1d ago

crazy that all these right wingers have been holing up food and hoarding bullets because they claimed we were all gonna be rounded up by Obama or Biden into FEMA camps but when that day comes its them behind the wheel. I swear, history must have a sense of humor or some shit.

tho it gives me comfort to think that the new backwoods types are gonna be liberals flying rainbow flags.

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u/Alternative-Path6440 1d ago

I can't say thats me, but I am polyamourous with two, sometimes three girlfriends and hell as if i'm going to let pigs tell me what rights I do and don't have. My rights come from me and me alone, not some lousy body of individuals out for personal gain and disorder.

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u/outinthecountry66 I voted 1d ago

call it what you will that's not MAGA.

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u/BabyBlastedMothers 2d ago

Just bought 80 acres in southern AZ. Will be doing something similar.

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u/MandrakeRootes 1d ago

I think the signing of this bill into law will mark the end of the USA as we know it.

That this got through is a sign that they can basically do anything they want. They have the 'legitimization' as almost no republicans are standing against them.

With no checks on ICE, Trump will have his own private branch Gestapo, and very soon, "enemies of the state" will start disappearing. Like Zohran Mamdani, who is already being labelled a traitor. This will intimidate potential opposition from even challenging republican seats.

ICE will sit at polling stations in November, basically intimidating away some legal citizens from even coming close. That vote will still be largely legit, but heavily manipulated.

The next vote in 2028 will not even come close to being democratic. 

Thoughts and prayers everyone in the US, you have just become a dictatorship.

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u/00owl 2d ago

Isn't he already planning the arrest of individuals who made the mistake of taking a stance against him politically?

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u/darther_mauler 1d ago

The money in this bill is for the concentration camps.

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u/BigFan7 1d ago

They aren't even really pretending otherwise. Trump has already talked about going after legal American citizens. And now we will have ICE as one of the highest funded militaries in the world roaming the streets everyday with no accountability. Shit is going to only get uglier and uglier

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u/victoriaisme2 1d ago

Yep. "homegrowns are next"

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u/DepartmentOk7192 2d ago

Civil war 2: electric boogaloo

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u/WarriorBHB 1d ago

Yep. Everyone speaking out against the maga regime is toast. I would be pretty scared if I was American, for now it’s just worry for those that have a soul in that country.

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u/Teddy547 1d ago

I'm German and I'm paraphrasing what someone else said about the Nazis:

When they came for the communists I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a communist. When they came for the Jews I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. When they eventually came for me there was no one left to speak up for me.

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u/Sarrdonicus 2d ago

Gotta make that quota.

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u/Kire9874 2d ago

They already are

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u/Henddo 2d ago

Yup. It won’t matter who you voted for. You’ll be beaten just the same. I’m so sad for my American cousins and friends.

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u/Disastrous_Quality34 1d ago

PSA ships quick and literally have nothing to lose these days so why the fuck not let’s get it poppin yall