The House voted 216-214 on a budget reconciliation framework that includes $10 billion worth of election-related grants over a 10-year period for coaxing states into adopting anti-voting measures like those in Trump’s pet proposal. The $95 billion package also includes funding for the Iran war and bailouts for farmers hurt by Trump’s tariffs.

It’s still unclear what will be in the final reconciliation bill; now that the budget resolution has been approved, individual House committees will go about drafting the legislation. The reconciliation process allows Senate Republicans to bypass the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold and pass legislation with a simple majority.

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[–] 139 points 3 months ago (11 children)

YAY! FASCISM!!!

it's what assholes crave!

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Weird, my asshole craves girldick

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    So do they. But instead of letting themselves accept that girldick into their lives (it's not even gay if the girl uses her own dick!), they fill their void with fascism.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    Sounds pretty at least 1/3 gay TBF.

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  • [+] -15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    And yet the American populace will do absolutely nothing.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • [+] -7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Mass protests, general strikes that last for more than a Sunday afternoon. Don’t need to throw fireballs to enact change, but you do need to make your voices heard. Yet Americans just keep sitting on their butts. If the majority of Americans are against what’s happening, where are they?

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  • [–] 89 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Welfare for farmers… wait a second, isn’t that socialism?

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  • [–] 47 points 3 months ago

    The reason many conservatives don't like socialism is because the wrong sort of people will get nice things. That's it. If white people benefit then it's cool.

    They are bad people by any reasonable metric.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago

    Farmers are often depicted as a profession done by poor people, the reality in the US is that the poor people got bought out decades ago, most farmers are actually gigantic land owners and often millionaires

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago*

    No. Socialism would be if the government nationalized Monsanto and then cut checks twice a year to every US citizen distributing the profits.

    They're just doing fascism. They're enriching their wealthy buddies and further consolidating entire industries under corporate ownership. They may also be doing what they can to prop up the food industry because they know people will lose their shit if there's nothing to eat.

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  • [–] 44 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Government funds to farmers to help with the rising costs and effects of war? This feels like a word that usually isn't associated with capitalism.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Most of the farmland is owned by a handful of oligarchs and mega-corps

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    True but I’d wager this is an 11th-hour attempt to buy back heartland wallet voters they’ve been hemorrhaging for over a year. Hopefully they take the bribe and still vote against him.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Yeah see, they're just throwing everyday struggling farmers a bone!

    Oh wait no, it's not that at all. It's that they know they need to prop this industry up as widespread access to food is probably one of the last things keeping people from revolting

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago

    They don't have a majority in the Senate for it even if the Senate accepts it as a budget bill, which is not guaranteed.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    Oh what the fuck

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    Kickbacks for red states and their constituents affected by the war.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Republicans are treasonus scum. What's new.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Where were the fillabuster avoidance strategies when dems were in power FFS. Dems are shit at politics and power.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The House doesn't have a filibuster. It never has. The Senate has the filibuster.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    And they’re trying to pass it off as a budget related bill which is immune to filibusters

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    I even think the current administration's courts and administrative process of the senate has already kicked back similar bills. They aren't allowed to just slip in anything to budget reconciliation bills.

    But I'm not confident it won't go their way, as precedent. Means little

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago*

    I even think the current administration’s courts and administrative process of the senate has already kicked back similar bills.

    It has. The Senate parliamentarian is an office (currently held by Elizabeth MacDonough) who, among her other responsibilities, decides whether or not bills qualify for the budget reconciliation process under the Byrd rule and are thus immune to the filibuster rule. She has had her work cut out for her lately. With the passage of this in the House, you can expect to hear Trump spouting off again about replacing her.

    Fun fact, if it wasn't for the Senate parliamentarian and her staff, Jan-6 could have been a lot worse.

    Separate and apart from the nuances of the Byrd rule, it is worth being reminded that it was the Senate parliamentarian and her staff that had the quick sense to remove the Electoral College voting boxes from the marauding Capitol Hill rioters on Jan. 6, 2021. Had it not been for their quick action, the threat to our democracy that day would have been even deeper.

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    [–] 39 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    This is really depressing. I thought it would get blocked in the senate.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    This is the House. It hasn't gotten through the Senate.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I know, but the senate won't need a super majority now, it'll probably pass.

    The reconciliation process allows Senate Republicans to bypass the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold and pass legislation with a simple majority.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The article is also saying it's still unlikely though:

    Despite Republican control of the Senate, it is unlikely that Trump will see any version of SAVE enacted ahead of the midterms.

    Legislation passed through reconciliation must be budgetary in nature. The Senate parliamentarian, the chamber’s procedural umpire, ruled last month that the SAVE America provisions did not fit the bill, leading Trump to call for her ouster.

    Even if these new, still-unknown provisions aren’t removed procedurally, the last time the Senate voted on the SAVE America Act, four Republicans voted against it, meaning it failed to receive even a majority’s support.

    Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has also downplayed the proposal’s chances amid legislative strategy differences with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). While the House passed a short-term stopgap funding bill Tuesday to avoid a government shutdown when the current fiscal year ends Sept. 30, Thune prefers a different spending package that he hopes to strongarm Democrats into supporting by threatening to use reconciliation if they don’t.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    This bullshit is going to become law, isn't it

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    Fascists win!

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    So if we can't vote, does that mean we don't have to pay taxes?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    If you don't pay your taxes, you go to a jail and all your shit is confiscated

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    Centrist democrats demonstrating once again that they're complicit with fascism.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Is the parliamentarian just not going to gut it this time?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    The Senate is gonna pass this shit, aren't they

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    GOP are traitors. That sums it up.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Ahhhh well that's not good.

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