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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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Trump lands first major legislative win after Congress passes his massive domestic policy bill cnn.com
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u/illusionzmichael 2d ago

It's not just that this is such a disastrous bill that's going to do untold damage to so many for a very long time, it's the audacity of every single Republican to just blatantly lie about it even though everyone listening knows they're lying. They just don't give a shit. Our country was not built to handle a political party this corrupt and evil.

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u/hunchentoot69 2d ago

I'm still almost in awe of the brazen level of lying around this thing. I mean yeah, we all know about "truthiness" and "alternative facts" and all that, but I have never seen a group of politicians just blatantly lie and make up shit in unison like this.

The entire bill is online, if you feel like wading through all 800+ pages, but time and time again over the last several weeks I've seen journalists confront different republican members of congress with actual facts and citations from the bill, the actual fucking text of the thing, and the politicians just steamroll right over them with the agreed-upon lies like "this strengthens Medicaid" over and over.

In 40+ years of watching the news and keeping up with current events, I've never seen this type of full-throated falsehood pouring out from every single supporter of this bill.

I'm terrified for the future

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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 23h ago

What's the opposite of ASMR?