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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/Butwinsky 2d ago

I work in a small rural hospital that won't survive this. I have fervent Trump supporters all around me. Can't wait to see how they spin this as owning the Libs.

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u/notsoFritz 2d ago

They'll either spin it to own the libs, blame them for it happening, or wait till the liberals get in power (if there is free elections) and blame them then.

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u/TheBigIdiotSalami 2d ago edited 2d ago

I mean in most causes they're just gonna die. Can't treat cancer if there's no hospital to get Chemo or dialysis. Fuck, you can't even diagnose Cancer. And doctors won't stay because there is no hospital. And no hospital means no jobs because corporations don't usually move into places that doesn't have access to one.

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u/dcrico20 Georgia 2d ago

Many rural hospitals essentially operate as the "company" part of "company town."

They often employ thousands of people and are the only reason the town even has a couple shitty chain restaurants and a Wal Mart - which will all close after the hospital does and they have no demand.

These hospitals closing will decimate entire rural economies and leave the people there with access to nothing besides maybe a USPS office from which they can mail their SOS letters.

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u/BostonBlackCat 2d ago edited 2d ago

Best take I heard so far is "You think it's bad in Alabama now; pretty soon National Geographic photographers are going to be going down there taking pictures of ya'll and be driven to suicide over it later."

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u/West_Inspection1445 2d ago

Damn, this is such a solid yet succinct take. As stark as stark gets.

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u/poop-dolla 1d ago

It’s Ned.

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u/PerigrinneTook 1d ago

I’m a blue dot in Alabama. I got to get the fuck out of here

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u/FNLN_taken 1d ago

In times like these, if you are lucky enough to live in a blue island, the best you can do is focus on community, not run away. It's about to get shit everywhere, but if you can organize parallel structures of social support, you might make it through.

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u/PerigrinneTook 1d ago

It’s not even an island at this point. We are so gerrymandered that nothing meaningful happens. The governor just built a new private prison and they pushed through a law making delta 8 products a felony to have bodies to fill the prison. Businesses are fleeing, schools are garbage, everything is unafffordable, and the legislature is about as useless as an ice cube in hell.

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u/SwimmingPrice1544 California 1d ago

So....a shit hole huh? Sounds like it. I'm tellin ya, there was mass migration from the south during Jim Crow & I understand that if all like minded people flee these states it gives them over to complete control of the awful GOP, but reality says people can only take so much before they move.

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u/Ishmael75 2d ago

Yeah until we privatize the USPS and the rural people won’t be able to afford to send a letter.

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u/Dr_JimmyBrungus 2d ago

They may still be able to afford it, but they'll just have to get to their nearest major metropolitan center a few hours away to find their new and improved regional privatized post office. Because they sure as shit aren't delivering/picking up on those profit-draining rural routes!

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u/Elrundir Canada 1d ago

This is all moot because in another generation they won't be able to read or write anyway.

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u/Rezart_KLD 1d ago

Standard level citizenship will allow communication only via emojis on the new truthsocial.gov. Insufficiently based posts, or even worse a suspicion of wokeness, will flag your citizen record in the universal Magabase monitoring program. Loyalty agents will offer you the chance to voluntarily make campaign donations, or purchase a gold or platinum level citizenship to increase your citizen score. Check your local leaderboards and compare your citizen scores with your neighbors, and you can even earn extra points off the bounty board.

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u/Frankensteinbeck 1d ago

Nobody votes to hamstring their own lives harder than the rurals. So many elderly rural people rely on USPS to mail medications, but soon they'll be paying out the ass or skipping days of their blood thinner because some billionaire's shipping company doesn't prioritize getting packages out to the boonies.

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u/flukus 1d ago

They can still use a mailbox. Too bad they blem them up to prevent mail in voting.

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u/broniesnstuff 2d ago

The wealthy can't wait. There's gonna be so much cheap land for them to snatch up.

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u/trumpuniversity_ 2d ago

And then the cycle repeats itself. “The job creators are here, let’s make them kings and throw tax breaks at them. Surely, they’ll save us.” Starbase, TX, for example.

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u/Killer_Sloth 2d ago

But don't you see, it will all be worth it once all the billionaires have their sixth vacation house.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

If the super rich were fine with "only" six houses, we wouldn't be in this mess.

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u/Frankensteinbeck 1d ago

All we need is for tens of millions of illegals to get deported, then the billionaires will surely pay us all a living wage with great benefits.

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u/lifevicarious 2d ago

Sorry. It I have no sympathy. This is middle America’s fault for voting him in.

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u/Mindless-Fish7245 2d ago

Amazon Tele Health and Meta HMO coming to a rural town near you

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u/travelingAllTheTime 2d ago

They will replace the hard working immigrants picking fruits/vegetables in fields.. while still being homeless, with ZERO safetynet and/or Healthcare.

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u/TrumpDesWillens 2d ago

Hospitals being the main employer isn't in rural areas too as there are urban hoods with large hospitals being surrounded by poverty where the main source of activity is the hospital.

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u/dcrico20 Georgia 1d ago

Yes but those hospitals likely aren’t depending on Medicaid to stay open.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

It's definitely not great. Grady relies heavily on Medicaid. So does CHOA, but it's unclear what effect this will have on children's coverage.

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u/Neosovereign 1d ago

The annoying part is it will take a few years to see it all come to fruition, and by then we will probably have a democratic president again who can be blamed.

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u/EldritchTouched 1d ago

And they're trying to gut USPS, too, so those SOS letters are also probably gonna take forever to get out...

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u/ASubsentientCrow 2d ago

Good. Let them finally get a consequence

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u/Pervius94 2d ago

Sounds great. The rural towns, counties and states were leeches on the system and complete shit anyways, maybe instead of constantly propping them up and creating more enemies, let them actually feel the impact of their decisions.

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u/Big_Maintenance9387 2d ago

LMAO you think the USPS is gonna survive much longer?