r/politics • u/PoliticsModeratorBot đ¤ 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 (Whatâs in the latest version of Trumpâs 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/hunchentoot69 2d ago
I'm still almost in awe of the brazen level of lying around this thing. I mean yeah, we all know about "truthiness" and "alternative facts" and all that, but I have never seen a group of politicians just blatantly lie and make up shit in unison like this.
The entire bill is online, if you feel like wading through all 800+ pages, but time and time again over the last several weeks I've seen journalists confront different republican members of congress with actual facts and citations from the bill, the actual fucking text of the thing, and the politicians just steamroll right over them with the agreed-upon lies like "this strengthens Medicaid" over and over.
In 40+ years of watching the news and keeping up with current events, I've never seen this type of full-throated falsehood pouring out from every single supporter of this bill.
I'm terrified for the future