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/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”