House passes Trump's budget in razor-thin vote after dramatic all-night session
a year ago by MicroWave to c/politics
The House narrowly passed Trump's domestic policy bill Thursday following a dramatic all-night session and days of negotiations.
In a 215 to 214 vote, all but two House Republicans supported the massive budget package — the centerpiece legislation of Mr. Trump's second-term agenda — in a vote that came hours after unveiling an updated version of the legislation that GOP leaders hoped would satisfy enough holdouts.
The measure cleared a critical procedural hurdle in the wee hours of the morning, teeing up the vote on final passage after days of consternation among the House Republican conference.
The bill will now go to the Senate, where some Republicans have already voiced some opposition. Congressional leaders have said they want to get it to Mr. Trump's desk by July 4.
Impeachment means nothing. Trump was impeached twice.
He is, by trying to stack the deck https://www.pbs.org/...
The effect of this law only takes places at the end of 2026. These pos know their bill is unpopular and they don’t want to see it happening before the midterms. At the same time, it is far enough from the 2028 election so people can forget and get distracted by some new email scandal.
It's the same thing that happened with the last tax bill. Push dates out for the goldfish memory of most Americans to forget and then blame the opposition knowing you can block them trying to change it.
Chile, late '80s, Pinochet scheduled a referendum and was voted out. He tried to backtrack, but no one would help so he ultimately left office peacefully.
Ukraine after the 2004 protests.
Ghana in 2000 after decades under Jerry Rawlings.
(Not counting the times when violence and international pressure led to elections that were honored, like Mandela winning in South Africa in the '90s.)
boom
This is far from an authoritarian regime, stop being a drama queen. These histrionics are frankly pathetic.
Courts have stopped like 90% of the shit hey are trying to do. In fact it’s not really clear that they’ve actually achieved anything on the short or long term, other than sending people out to foreign gulags and that may yet have repercussions for them.
Courts have stopped like 90% of the shit hey are trying to do
Tell that to Kilmar Abrego García. I bet he feel really good about the remaining 10%.
So should we crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?
That doesn’t mean we have to pretend that we’re literally living in North Korea. One thing is to push back and fight against what the admin is doing and another one is falling to pathetic displays of histrionics like the original commenter.
Courts have stopped like 90% of the shit hey are trying to do.
Have they, though? They've ruled against things, sure, but the majority of those things haven't stopped or changed, so what effects have the rulings actually had?
Look at the numbers, they aren’t really deporting people in the numbers they should be according to their agenda. He capitulated on tariffs with China. Every week it’s a different fumble from his cabinet. Even the worst gifters of the MAGAspehere are starting to speak out against Trump’s corrupt behavior.
All their policies are being enacted via EO so they can and will be stricken down the moment another democrat takes power.
The biggest concern I have with this administration beyond the obvious human right violations of sending people to foreign gulags, is not the actions it’s taking by themself but rather the precent they are setting. The next democratic president, if they are really worried about fascism as they say, needs to give priority to dismantling the power of the executive and returning it to congress. But that probably won’t happen because they’re all power grubbing greedy assholes.
I think democrats need to look back and realize that the pre maga GOP was absolutely right when it said that state sovereignty should be preserved above all things. It is the strongest bulwark the US has against authoritarianism.
Would like to point out that part of this bill includes a provision that makes it illegal for Courts to hold the Government in contempt for not complying with their past, present, or future injunctions:
H.R. _____, Title VII § 70302:
No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), whether issued prior to, on, or subsequent to the date of enactment of this section.
In fact it’s not really clear that they’ve actually achieved anything on the short or long term
Literally what are you talking about? The U.S as we know it has been dismantled. If this administration somehow explicitly ended today we'd have still lost over 100 years of social progress, not to mention Russia and God only knows who else has all of our data, Intel, and government secrets. They've already accomplished everything they've set out to. The bribery and big beautiful bills and everything else from here on out is just gravy to them.
what? Obama ran opposed to same sex marriage. Obama, just a few years ago. Literally what 100 years of progress are you talking about? Trump has done nothing that cannot be reversed the moment another president walks in because everything is a fucking EO.
You’re literally hysterical.
People keep voting for them no matter what they do. Republicans are unfixable
Which they will do fuck all with.
Didn't a house democrat just recently die? Wouldn't that have made it 215-215 if he was still alive?
"If something is beautiful, you don't do it after midnight," Massie said on the House floor.
That evening, a Roman watched the smoke in the distance grow larger, and an orange glow grew through the night.
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The stupid Republicans just committed political seppuku. It's going to be an all-blue midterms. Trump had better prepare for the impeachment proceedings.
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