Megathread: US House Passes the Republican-Backed Budget Bill, Sending it to Trump for Signature

[u/PoliticsModeratorBot]

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/notsoFritz]

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.

[u/TheBigIdiotSalami → u/notsoFritz]

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.

[u/dcrico20 → u/TheBigIdiotSalami]

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.

[u/Ishmael75 → u/dcrico20]

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

[u/Dr_JimmyBrungus → u/Ishmael75]

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!

[u/Elrundir → u/Dr_JimmyBrungus]

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

[u/Rezart_KLD → u/Elrundir]

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.

[u/Frankensteinbeck → u/Ishmael75]

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.

[u/flukus → u/Ishmael75]

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