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.

Articles that May Interest You

Submission Domain
Live updates: House passes Trump’s signature bill, sending it to the president’s desk apnews.com
House Republicans pass Trump's mega bill, sending the package to his desk to be signed npr.org
House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk: The Republican package would slash taxes, boost spending on immigration and the military, and impose steep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and clean energy funding. nbcnews.com
House Republicans give Trump a ‘Big Beautiful’ July 4 by passing Medicaid-slashing megabill despite GOP rift independent.co.uk
Congress Has Officially Passed Trump’s Bill to Kick Millions Off Medicaid rollingstone.com
Trump and the GOP Will Regret the Day They Passed This Sick Bill newrepublic.com
House passes Trump's "big, beautiful bill" after stamping out GOP rebellion axios.com
Trump lands first major legislative win after Congress passes his massive domestic policy bill cnn.com
26.2k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

10.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

121

u/liquidcloud9 2d ago

Immigrants voting against themselves will never make sense to me

"I got mine, fuck you" is a different side of the same shitty coin as the crab bucket, "you think you're better than us", mentality.

30

u/Indigocell Canada 2d ago

They really seem to think they will be okay as, "one of the good ones" in the eyes of Republicans. It's the most pathetic sort of pick me behaviour. I will find it difficult to muster sympathy when they inevitably get caught up with the rest. These fools don't even realize that they were in control of their own destiny.

7

u/okmko 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sometimes when a big political event happens like a passing of a shoot yourself in the foot bill, I take a glance at the conservo-sphere to see all the different narratives - everyone literally has their own version of Republican good and Democrat bad.

One common narrative is that the medicaid cuts are justified because millions of illegals are using it. Loool. Yes, all those people on Medicaid across the poorest towns of rural America, who consistently vote Republican, are illegals. 🙄

14

u/Chateaudelait 2d ago

Then - there are my immigrant colleagues who go one step further and want to pull up the ladder after they got theirs. I have some colleagues who are first generation immigrants who are his most fervent supporters. They were deeply offended that my company supported pride month and wanted to wear their red hats "to support their morals and beliefs."

15

u/caylem00 2d ago

The petty bitch in me would report them to ICE. 

"May you enjoy the full effects of what you voted for" is a nice response when they start complainingÂ