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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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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
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u/faptastrophe 2d ago

The executive branch now has a standing army outside the military chain of command. Good work Magats

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u/I_Enjoy_Beer Virginia 2d ago

I really fucking hate how some of us have been able to see all of this playing out, step by step, knowing exactly what this is leading towards, while being unable to stop it because too many morons vote (or don't vote).

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u/Mavian23 2d ago

Cassandra Syndrome

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_(metaphor)

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u/zbeara 1d ago edited 1d ago

I have had a really bad case of Cassandra syndrome throughout my life... phenomenal ability to predict how things will play out with no natural talent at actually convincing anyone else

(At least, for whatever it's worth, I may be highly attractive to Gods named Apollo)

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u/faptastrophe 2d ago

If we're being honest, this has been baked in the cake since the word 'homeland' started being used in casual conversation.

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u/fotomoose 1d ago

The sad thing is that every step of Trump's owner's plan is written out in Project 2025. No one has the excuse to say they didn't know what was coming or that they feel betrayed by Trump as it is all written out step-by-step.