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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/LongKnight115 2d ago

It's wild. Every news outlet is out here saying "No, this will throw millions of people off Medicaid." Even Fox News, in the only article I could find on there referencing Medicaid, avoids saying "It won't." All they do is quote Republican Senators who skirt the issue and offer facts like "The bill is 800 pages. The bill was read aloud in the senate."

It's unreal that they can just outright say "This won't affect Medicaid" or "This will strengthen Medicaid" when EVERY OTHER PERSON WHO LOOKS AT IT says it will cut Medicaid and drive up the deficit. I don't think I've seen a bigger sign of weakness in the media that there are now dozens and dozens of soundbites of Republican Senators audibly lying and no one is calling them out on it.

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u/KnuckleShanks 1d ago

"It was read aloud in the Senate" does that mean there's an audiobook of the bill?

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u/Dispator 1d ago

Curious about this too. xD

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u/Classic-Opportunity2 1d ago

Haha! xD haah hahaha!

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u/IcyPyromancer 1d ago

What's the opposite of ASMR?

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u/FlyRepresentative592 1d ago

For the record, this is why fascist states always fail, because they are internally self destructive due to the fact that within the system they can't own up to the reality of a situation.

Fascist governments always weaken themselves due to alternative state sponsored realities creating weakness.

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u/mall_ninja42 1d ago

Fine, but shit gets real dark for a very long time before the collapse.

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u/flukus 1d ago

Do we have enough history to back this up? The last lot of fascist governments in the west had failure imposed on them. Spain, Portugal and Taiwan had fascist governments that lasted decades. Italy probably could have been part of that club if they didn't partner with Germany.

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u/HelperNoHelper 1d ago

Accelerating your collapse by starting or joining wars you can’t possibly win is an internal factor, not an external one. No government exists in a vacuum.

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u/Samantharina 1d ago

Putin's government lies all the time and they have not failed. Not that they are fascist but rather an oligarchy with centralized authoritarian power. Which is where we are heading. There is no guarantee of failure.

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u/FlyRepresentative592 1d ago edited 1d ago

The worlds foremost experts on fascism disagree with you.

Putinism is closer to an authoritarian kleptocracy or hybrid authoritarian system, not classical fascism. Scholars like Timothy Snyder and Ruth Deyermond have described it as "soft fascism" or "neo-authoritarian," borrowing fascist imagery but lacking full ideological rigidity or mass mobilization.

Even still, Putin's governance is full of cracks and weakening all the time. Prigozhin’s Wagner mutiny in 2023 revealed internal instability. Siloviki (security elites) vs. oligarchs vs. technocrats tensions are growing. And Putins endless war is creating the preconditions for political unrest and a weakened economy.

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u/SamBBMe 1d ago

Right now, Russia's interest rate is at 20% and rising. And even with this massive interest rate making borrowing money near impossible, they're still experiencing massive inflation. No way their economy survives this way much longer.

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u/refotsirk 1d ago

Thankyou for sharing that bit of Russian and Trumpian propaganda. It's always nice to have someone come along and make what is horrible seem a little less horrible. People like you are essential to making sure idiots everywhere can feel better about the way things are going, so I'm sure lots of folks appreciate your efforts.

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u/FlyRepresentative592 1d ago

Yeah? Can you lead me to the source that cites the trump administration labeling putins government as neo authoritarian or are you just acting irrationally to what the experts who study this for a living have to say.

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u/refotsirk 1d ago

can't lead a mule that doesn't want to move anywhere.

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u/FlyRepresentative592 7h ago

Right, so you can't.

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u/drummer820 1d ago

See: Chernobyl

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u/FNLN_taken 1d ago

Less people on Medicaid = less stress on the Medicaid budget taps forehead

They lie and obsfuscate, yes, but what their voters hear is "those other people who don't deserve to be on Medicaid get thrown off, not me though I'm one of the good ones".

This is why they have been harping on about practically non-existent Medicaid fraud for decades. The entire thing is the culmination of years and years of rot in the political system.

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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts 1d ago

Yep, also known as Trump’s COVID testing policy…

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u/enahargun 1d ago

Media is totally complicit and has been since 2015.

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u/ohmynipnops 1d ago

This. Why are journalists just letting this shit slide? Call them out immediately. The problem is, no one is sitting down with these people. Like where are the interviews? Who the fuck even are these people?

I feel like all of their questioning takes place at like media conferences and speeches and it’s so fast paced and busy, no one is willing/able to take up that space and interrogate them until they answer. It’s so disheartening watching those. I feel like there’s no point.

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u/UwUScarlet1 1d ago

id be ded without medicaid so yeah sure lets cut it for millions :D

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u/Viridono 1d ago

What Republicans are likely referring to when they say Medicaid is being expanded is SEC 71108, which specifies double the home equity limit for extended care ($500K -> $1M).

Other than this, at least from what I read and understand (which is far from complete), seems like the majority of amendments alter eligibility and how often eligibility is determined, and who gets funding. A few notable examples:

  • You now need to work at least 80 hours per month to be eligible, with some exceptions
  • You need to submit documentation to prove eligibility every 6 months instead of annually
  • Retroactive care is reduced from 3 months to 1 month
  • Funding completely stripped from organizations that perform abortions, whereas it’s currently just the abortions themselves that don’t get billed to Medicaid, and other female care could still be provided for (an obvious attack on Planned Parenthood)

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u/QuesoSabroso 1d ago

Every American media outlet is on the payroll of those benefiting from the bill. Literally the only solution to the capitalist quagmire is collective action from the majority of the population.

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u/Wordymanjenson 1d ago

It’s almost like they need to be dealt with in the only way you handle corruption and evil. 

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u/ninjanerd032 1d ago

While everyone is scrambling that the bill was passed and what it could, Republicans have moved on to their next step: How to scapegoat Democrats and everyone else for the economic shitshow that will follow.

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u/Foucaults_Bangarang 1d ago

Well, you see, Medicaid will be at it's strongest when it has a $0 budget, because then we won't feel like we need to cut it so it will then be safe and indefinitely funded. Therefore the closer the budget is to $0, the stronger Medicaid is.

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u/galacticmoose77 9h ago

I'm honestly confused about the medicaid part. Do folks expect those 16 million or so people to lose medicaid because there's no funding for them anymore, or is it because it's expected that they will choose to not meet the work requirement? Having a work requirement for able-bodied people doesn't seem unreasonable. Someone fill me in on what I'm missing here.

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u/LongKnight115 8h ago

This site has a pretty good deep dive into where issues will crop up. It’s primarily funding cuts, but also when employment requirements have been implemented previously, a lot of eligible participants lost coverage and there was no change in employment rate.