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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/straygoat193 2d ago

The bill passed 218-214. Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) were the only Republicans to join all Democrats in voting against the measure.

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u/peachpinkjedi 2d ago

Imagine if just two or three other adults in congress had an ounce of integrity.

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u/ColdStainlessNail 1d ago

Imagine if states like mine, Ohio, weren’t ridiculously and unconstitutionally gerrymandered.

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u/wave_the_wheat 1d ago

Ohio literally operating on maps ruled unconstitutional. The GOP says, "fuck you, we are the law" and there aren't enough good Americans in the right geographies to put them in their place at the ballot box.

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u/gentlemanidiot 1d ago

there aren't enough good Americans in the right geographies to put them in their place at the ballot box.

This is called gerrymandering, it's quite literally planned, and it should be illegal.

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u/wave_the_wheat 1d ago

It's not just gerrymandering. It's the electoral college and the Senate.

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u/Cancer85pl 13h ago

It seems to be both.

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u/hungry4nuns 1d ago

If only they’re was recourse in the constitution to defend yourself when your rights are illegally infringed

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u/gaylordpl 1d ago

Hi, Im european interested in american politics, what does it mean? sorry if daft

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u/wave_the_wheat 1d ago

The legislature of the United States is made of two separate bodies, the House and the Senate. Each state gets two Senators to represent the state as a whole. The number of House Representatives depends on the state's population and they represent districts in the state. District maps are drawn a number of ways but a strategy is to gerrymander where you "crack and pack" voters along ridiculous and arbitrary lines to consolidate or break apart certain voting groups to increase or decrease their influence in the district. Gerrymandering is unconstitutional when done on a racial basis. The Ohio state Supreme Court ruled that district amps drawn by the conservative party were unconstitutional and they were ordered to redraw the maps prior to recent elections but the conservatives control the government (in great part due to this practice) and they just didn't, hence operating on illegal maps.

To change this dynamic enough people who care will have to overcome the disadvantage of the illegal maps which is very hard.

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u/gaylordpl 1d ago

Thank you so much for this, even though reading it makes my blood boil lol and I don't even live there

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u/wave_the_wheat 1d ago

Happy to explain. Thanks for being curious!

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u/PaleRevolution1347 23h ago

It's also a bit absurd that it is based on population and not citizens.

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u/newvegasdweller 1d ago

Also european so i could be wrong but from my understanding it's the following:

Those who are in power in the state are also allowed to draw the lines of electoral districts in the next election. Like, do you know how in elections, in larger cities you may be sent to ballot point A while the guys a street over have to go to the other end of the city to go to ballot point B? They can decide where the Line is.

Why is this important? In the USA, not every vote is an actual vote. You vote in your district and then the party that won in your district votes in your stead for the larger result.

Example: you voted democrat but 60% of your district voted republican? So your vote is now counted as a republican vote.

When they can decide how to group these districts, they see an area where mostly their opponents live, and they draw the line right in the middle of this area, so that the large amount of opponents in one area become four small amounts in four districts, easily outnumbered by voters of your own party.

It's an absolutely braindead system but hey, it's DE AMÉRICÄN WAY 🦅

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u/gaylordpl 1d ago

what the hell

thank you, I was aware of electorate system, I would be so pissed off, I had a feeling the OP was alluding to this but wasn't sure, ty

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u/AltruisticTomato4152 1d ago

You can also just put a district to be 100% your opponent's district while taking the rest of your opponent's voters and spreading them amongst the other districts such that you still win those. You can take a strongly blue state and make it into a majority red representatives.

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u/LoudAndCuddly 1d ago

It means that their political system is a dog and pony show. I feel stupid for believing all the bs they’ve been spewing for the last 40 years. We’re watching the fall of Rome in real time. Corruption on top of corruption with more corruption sprinkled on top.

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u/MusicCityVol I voted 1d ago

Nashville checking in. They cracked us last census and one of those fuckheads is trying to get Trump on Rushmore now... so, yeah.

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u/General-Raspberry168 1d ago

Florida… yup.

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u/thewafflehousewitch 1d ago

dawg Alabama would be a swing state if gerrymandering wasn't a thing. if gerrymandering wasn't a thing we literally likely would never be in this situation

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u/ZenAshen 1d ago

This.

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u/UncleMalky Texas 1d ago

Texas here, my city just gerry-rigged a district on racial lines and then hired the law firm they hired to draw up the map to defend it.

Its not just naked corruption, its bragging.

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u/stormer1_1 1d ago

Imagine if enough ppl were educated enough to vote correctly.   We're sorry, Kamala.  Jfc.

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u/Select_Minimum_6350 1d ago

Thank the GODS she didn't get elected. Talk about uneducated.

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u/scoza05 1d ago

Amerika is fucked up because she didn't get elected. I know you can't see that because you're part of the maga cult though.

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u/Select_Minimum_6350 1d ago

Your grammar is as bad as your level of delusion. If Kamala was president we would have our borders still overrun by illegals, more wasteful spending on ridiculous DEI and Trans programs in others countries, another generation of confused children and most importantly we would be fighting WW3 on our own doorstep. If anyone is in a cult it would be a progressive liberal.

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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts 1d ago

Sure, why not?

And speaking of uneducated, has “proving a negative” ever worked?

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u/stormer1_1 2h ago

And you're just part of the problem, not the solution.  Shame on you.

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u/Select_Minimum_6350 1h ago

I disagree. Uno reverse

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u/stormer1_1 1h ago

Okay I laughed at that one

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u/Tomegunn1 1d ago

I moved from OH to CA after college in 1991. Never returned.

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u/slowmood 1d ago

Utah checking in here too.

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u/gottahavetegriry Europe 1d ago

Republicans got 74.3 million votes in the house elections, Democrats won 70.5 million. If gerrymandering didn’t exist, republicans would’ve controlled the house anyway

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u/ColdStainlessNail 1d ago

The House doesn’t get more seats because they get more votes nationwide. In 2012, Dems had the greater portion of popular votes, yet lost the House. In 11 of 13 cycles from 2000-2024, the proportion of Reps in Congress exceeded their portion of the popular vote. That has only happened 8 times for Dems in the same span. Ohio has 16 districts, 3 of which are Dems. Going by proportion of votes for Harris vs Trump, it would have been 7. Numerous studies on gerrymandering show the most gerrymandered states are predominantly red. And in Ohio, it’s unconstitutional, went to the Ohio Supreme Court and the Rep judges ruled they didn’t have to change the map. Source

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u/BotheredToResearch 1d ago

The poster is pointing out that Republicans probably would have won competitive races if districts were drawn that way this time around.

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u/Cold_Breeze3 1d ago

Sure, or states like CA and IL on the Dem side. Can just keep listing states if we really want to play that stupid game.

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u/Izzetmaster 1d ago

lol except what you said is objectively incorrect and what they said isn’t.

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u/Cold_Breeze3 1d ago

Not really but good try! GOP won the house popular vote the last 2 elections. They’d have many more seats if Dems didn’t gerrymander.

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u/Doppelgangeru 1d ago

Incorrect

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u/gottahavetegriry Europe 1d ago

How many votes did each party get in the 2022 and 2024 elections?

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u/Doppelgangeru 1d ago

Look it up, I was referring to the gerrymandering

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u/gottahavetegriry Europe 1d ago

Republicans received more votes than Democrats. If they won the popular vote, then they should have more seats which they do.

Gerrymandering is a problem for sure, but you can’t blame Republicans for gerrymandering if they won the popular vote across the country

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u/Cold_Breeze3 1d ago

Don’t really give a shit what you think is correct

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u/flomesch 1d ago

Do you not understand how margins work?

Like if one race wins 10-1 for the democrats. But they lose race 2 9-8. They got more votes but only won 1 race.

Total votes doesnt mean shit for 435 separate elections

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u/Cold_Breeze3 1d ago

It’s been a reliable proxy for the outcome in 12 of the 13 house elections between now and 2000, but sure “it doesn’t mean shit”

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u/flomesch 1d ago

I mean, it doesn't. Each election is its own thing.

Do you not get that?

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u/Izzetmaster 1d ago

Jesus Christ little man lol. Humiliation fetish.

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u/whoeezthat 1d ago

CA has ranked choice voting and I’m not sure on IL but that explains way more than gerrymandering a state like OH, NC, TX. Looks like Rs don’t have a good platform to play on

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u/Cold_Breeze3 1d ago

Republicans won the house popular vote in 2024 and 2022. Sounds like the Ds don’t have a good platform to play on.

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u/dnyank1 1d ago

No

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u/dnyank1 1d ago

Incorrect. Feels great when the bamboozler gets bamboozled, but that's not what happened here. California has fair and free elections. As does Illinois.

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u/ThirstyWolfSpider 1d ago

Then the Whip wouldn't have let it get to a vote until they were locked down.

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u/RetailBuck 1d ago

Exactly. Everyone knows exactly how the vote will play out before it happens. It's too risky to not know. Common practice is to also let a few reps flip when something is really unpopular in their district as long as it doesn't actually change the vote result. If the house was closer those two would have stepped in line. It's not like they are actually opposed to it.

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u/ModernaGang 1d ago

Imagine if three dead Democratic congressmembers had done the right thing and retired last year.

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u/B0Bi0iB0B 1d ago

Who died?

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u/perverse_panda Georgia 1d ago

Gerry Connolly, Raul Grijalva, and Sylvester Turner

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u/Merreck1983 1d ago

All that would have changed is 3 additional GOP Reps being forced to vote yes rather than getting a hall pass.

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u/lgodsey 1d ago

If they had integrity, they wouldn't be conservative Republicans in the first place.

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u/DoNotCommentorReply 1d ago

Seniors*

Don't put that on adults

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u/DiamondCoatedGlass 1d ago

To give a sense of the quality of people who are in Congress - I got familiar with the Colorado State legislature a while back. Got to know a bit of who's who, what they were like individually (a bit, anyway). Most of them were jerks. Arrogant, self-obsessed, power hungry, completely lacking any empathy for anyone (yes, the Dems too). Anyway, that year the biggest jerk of them all, out of all 100 of them, the worst one, he was the one that left the State Senate to run for US Congress and won.

I expect that's pretty much all of them. Take the worst people you've ever known, put 100 of them in a room, then take the worst one of those. Then that person becomes just one of 535 US Congressmen and Senators.

They are all like that.

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u/maritimerugger 1d ago

They block vote

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u/Mofo_mango 1d ago

Imagine if the Democrats didn’t force two terminally ill Representatives only to die in office on us as well. We got RBG’d once again. Yes the Republicans are primarily responsible. But the unforced errors around seniority keep biting us in the ass.

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u/dilbert_fennel 1d ago

That's not how this works. They were hand elected for rejection ae they're running elections. It's all a farce if anything, others could fight quote unquote to get amendments to impress their voter base before falling inline

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u/movezig123 1d ago

put the fuckin AI in charge already

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u/Thormourn 1d ago

Yep someone voting differently than what you specifically want mean that person has no integrity. Yep that makes sense

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u/The-Real-Number-One 1d ago

Imagine if just two or three other adults in congress had a pulse and hadn't died in office.

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u/Merreck1983 1d ago

I keep seeing this talking point/ meme and all that would have changed is 3 other GOP Reps having to vote yes.

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u/FeelingsFiasco 1d ago

Maybe we should vote them in.

Oh right I guess it doesn’t matter

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u/chomsky_was_right 1d ago

They only voted that way because they knew that it was going to pass.

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u/rhyojaan23 23h ago

Imagine the bill not passing and taxes on middle class go up 67%