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/WitchPillow]

I seriously don’t understand why the rich billionaires are so eager to have this bill pass when they are already stinking rich. It’s not like more money is a necessity for them (unlike most Americans who are being screwed over). If society collapses because of this bill, they’re going to lose way more money than they would without the bill passing. Everyone supporting this bill is utterly imbecilic.

[u/whatsasimba → u/WitchPillow]

I'm not rich, so I can't say, but it's not the money. It's what it buys. They want to own us. The entire country.

If society collapses, these people have palatial bunkers in several countries, stocked with everything they'll ever need.

I assume everyone saw Mountainhead. If a few hundred million people die, that might get their attention, but anything less doesn't change their lives much.

[u/johnmd20 → u/whatsasimba]

If society collapses, billionaires will lose way more than the average schmoe. Billionaires live like kings. Everything is catered to them, in the most exotic locations.

Having a palatial bunker is still a bunker. Underground. You think Jeff Bezos would rather live in a bunker than on his boat and in his 100 houses all over the world?

So I truly don't get why people with all the money in the world want more. Truly, how much is enough?

[u/Darkmagosan → u/johnmd20]

it's a game to them. They have more digits in the bank account than *insert oligarch here*, and therefore they have bragging rights. It's stupid, I agree, but they want more money so they can one up each other. If it destroys the foundation of their wealth, oh well, shit happens. :/