đ¨đ¨ NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con…
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This was predetermined in November. Republicans are going to pass massive upper income tax cuts and gut social insurance spending — that has been a constant since 1981.
The way forward is to get at least one of those veto positions. 218 is the most straightforward in 2026.
The one thing that modestly surprised me is that the House had several votes to spare so Republicans running in Harris won districts could have voted NO and hoped YES. All but one in that situation decided to take the electoral hit of passing a grossly unpopular bill. That is WEIRD.
WaterGirl
Now it has to go to reconciliation, right?
Elizabelle
More afraid of Trump and their colleagues than their constituents. Â That is sad, and weird.
Captain C
Some combination of death threats and not wanting to alienate their own friends and social circle?
Hunter Gathers
That one vote may not have been swayed by a free trip to the White House gift shop.
David Anderson
@WaterGirl: nope house passed the Senate bill as is … Just needs a signature
Mathguy
Don Bacon (NE-2) is an asshole and decided to retire rather than face the music in 2026. Sells himself as a moderate, votes purely reactionary in every important decision.
CaseyL
With ICE now funded to become Trump’s private army, maybe the GOP really doesn’t have to worry about future elections.
dm
I wonder if walking on a bunch of legos like that is actually nicer, because the legos can scrunch and move out of the way. Â Unpleasant, but not UNPLEASANT. Â Like walking on gravel.
Or might be a new kind of self-empowerment the way barefoot-on-hot-coals was a couple of decades agoâŚ.
HopefullyNotcassandra
@Captain C: May I suggest wingnut welfare and wingnut internecine warfare are intertwined?
The Supreme Court declared (for every goyperâs convenience) that receipt of tips was not bribery. Â Oh no! Â That gift was but a tip! Â ( Somewhere Bob Ney must be sobbing. Â He only accepted a golf vacation to Scotland !)
Unless I missed something ( and this bill is bigly dangerous, sadistic, looong and in senate flush for days), tips are now tax free.*
Let the not-corruption, corporate appreciation gift-giving begin!
* please correct me if I missed something.
I am truly hoping our gop electeds didnât just sell out our hospitals for thirty pieces of silver and a few White House geegaws tax free. Â Although what good reason can there possibly be for this vote? I certainly cannot find it
WaterGirl
@David Anderson: Wow. Â I have been away all day. Â The House passed the exact piece of shit bill that came out of the Senate? Â Pathetic.
A sad day for America.
NotMax
Welcome to die Zukunft.
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bbleh
All but one in that situation decided to take the electoral hit of passing a grossly unpopular bill. That is WEIRD.
I’ve seen many versions of this comment, both prospective and now retrospective, and I’ll say again, I DON’T think it’s weird.
First and most basically, they don’t care about the well-being of people on Medicaid, whether they vote for them or not.
Secondly, almost all of them are FAR more afraid of PRIMARY voters than of voters in the general election, because primary voters skew extreme, which among Republicans means MAGAt. Â Vote against the Supreme Leader’s bill and you are pretty much guaranteed to have some frothing wingnut run against you in the next primary, and the VAST majority of them are more likely to lose that race than a general election against a Democrat.
Third, as innumerable polls and reports have pointed out, voters don’t know what’s in the bill. Â More of them probably believe the Supreme Leader when he says he “won’t touch Medicaid or Medicare” than know even the first thing this bill contains. Â When the sh!t finally does hit the fan, their voters are more likely to blame Democrats or Immigrants or Inner-City Welfare Types than this bill or their Congress-critter.
And fourth, as they know well because they’ve got it down to a science the last 40 years or so, even IF voters make the connection, most of them will STILL vote Republican, because Republicans will pull out the old racism-infused moralism, blah blah “welfare” blah “immigrants” blah blah “inner-city” blah, and the very voters whom their vote and their bill have fked over will line up to vote righteously for them again.
Captain C
@HopefullyNotcassandra: I’m sure that decision had nothing to do with Clarence Thomas being the GOAT at taking bribes, er, gifts and tips from his friends who certainly wouldn’t do that to influence SCROTUS decisons that said friends had a stake or interest in.
RevRick
@bbleh: I looking at you, Ryan MacKenzie. He was one of 21 GOP Representatives who had written to the House Ways and Means Committee asking that the energy tax credits be protected. They were gutted and he voted for the Abomination.
His care for the environment is like the Platte River in the summer: a mile wide at the mouth, but only 6 inches deep.
Jackie
@WaterGirl:
No. The Senate bill is the same bill the House passed today.
FFOTUS is celebrating 4th of July with a yuuuge signing ceremony sometime tomorrow. :-(
trollhattan
File also, too, under assholes gonna asshole.
Special note: 13k acres in an ag area 100% dependent on irrigation water is nothing. As in nothing.
Also, if you want, you can raise the panels and graze critters there.
Elizabelle
Well, they did it to themselves. Â And I am staying off any news sites for a few days. Â Don’t even want to see the spin and whatever the Vichy Times comes up with.
It’s like praising Jim Jones for being a visionary leader. Â He got ALL those people to go along with him! Â Oh. Â Wait.
NotMax
@Jackie
Featuring the pilots who bombed Iran as props, it has been reported.
Archon
I’m no student of history but has a representative Republic’s legislative body ever passed anything close to as upward distributive as this bill?
Steve LaBonne
The swing district members figure they still have some chance in the general but none at all if they’re primaried. Perfectly rational from their selfish, twisted point of view.
Jackie
@NotMax: You mean the MAGA Congress isnât ordered to attend?
trollhattan
@NotMax:Â â
No doubt they’ll be THRILLED at being doxxed. And the ICE asshats get to wear masks?
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Mathguy:
All he has to do is look on the other side of the Capitol to see two masters of that, Suzie Furrowbrows and Murderkowski.
Elizabelle
@Archon: Â I think they made huge progress at overturning the New Deal and its follow on legislation, and other social welfare programs. Â Maybe the GOP will hold its next members’ meeting at Hyde Park, and they can urinate on his grave.
It took decades, but they are getting there.
no body no name
@Elizabelle:
They’re afraid of Trump because of their constituents.
ArchTeryx
We thought the same in 2017, to, but they made some huge tactical errors along the way that, in the end, sunk their attempt at Obamacare repeal. They missed the 51.
They got a lot smarter this time. No keggers after their mass murder bill passed in the House – they passed it in the dead of night and said as little as possible about it. The Senate was virtually guaranteed to pass the bill – they had several Golden Tickets to give out even with Thune claiming one. Opposition was given no time to mobilize and while disability advocates once again sent their wheelchair army, once again they were all arrested and hauled away – mostly out of sight of cameras. They didn’t even make a blip on the radar.
And unless several unexpected things happen, they just signed my death warrant. They just did it 8 years later than expected.
Elizabelle
@ArchTeryx: Â All I can say is hang in there. Â You live in a blue state, I believe?
Republicans.
No common good for thee. Â Grift for TRUMP and me.
gene108
@HopefullyNotcassandra:
To destroy the social contract the Progressive Era and New Deal created, where the wealthy would be taxed at higher rates to provide a safety net for others.
They are changing this. The wealthy pay less in taxes, the safety net gets gutted, and the savings from gutting the safety net gets spent on creating a police state via a huge spending boost to DHS.
Theyâre rewriting the social contract government has had with the governed for 90+ years.
I think RJK, Jr.âs eugenics-curious healthcare policy is part of changing what people can expect the government to do.
Marcopolo
Question for David. Â Get my health insurance via ACA in MO. My income falls between 150-200% of poverty. I currently get a pretty good subsidy with a silver plan. I did not have insurance for a decade before the ACA & it has been a lifesaver for me for, what, about 15 years now.
With passage of this bill I assume my costs will skyrocket (will cross that bridge when it arrives), but should I be worried that the ACA might not even exist to offer me plans come next year? Â I turn 63 this year & was hoping to get to 65 and on Medicare before all hell broke loose but there you go. Â Guess fingers crossed Medicare exists a few years from now.
thanks in advance for your answer.
tobie
My biggest fear is the $44 billion budget for ICE, which will be Trump’s private paramilitary force. SCOTUS gave Trump the ability to strip enough citizens of their birthright citizenship to ensure Republican victories in 2026 and beyond, and ICE will be there to quash dissent. Amy Coney Barrett will sanctimoniously intone that as long as a person’s citizenship is in question they can’t possibly vote. I’m angry and heartbroken at the same time.
greenergood
Watching from across the Pond, I feel sick at what the land of my birth has done – and how many legistlators are happy about it – nightmare …
Marcopolo
@ArchTeryx: Makes me appreciate John McCain all the more. Â I hope whoever runs against Hawley here in MO cuts an ad that mentions Hawleyâs book about âmasculinityâ & points out McCain was a real mensch & Hawley (who said he wouldnât vote to cut Medicaid) is just a loser wanker.
WTFGhost
Yeah, that’s what happened.
Republicans expect tender hearted Democrats to fix things. We can’t, not until people stop hating us.
Now, I posted a parody song, a filthy one, and, hey, no engagement, no worries, it’s my “ugly baby” that looks so beautiful to me. But maybe you don’t get, maybe you just don’t feel, a filthy, immature ditty, like:
(To the tune of Leroy Brown)It was a big, bad, fugly bill
baddest thing from the Capitol Hill
Badder than a disco dance
And mean as Don Shitzinpantz!
And I generally wouldn’t either, except…
Tomorrow, I would want the entire Democratic caucus leading every voter in the US in a ROUSING chorus of this, or some more biting parody, rather than just feeling badly because people are going to die. I want to throw our defiance in the mouth of their victory, and have them suddenly DO MORE because they’re afraid something big and bad is coming, and it’s no longer the fugly bill.
That “doing more” is what will help break them.
So: find something. Find something funny, outlandishly immature, ridiculously unsporting, and find what you’d yell in the Trumpbaby’s face to try to make it go all crinkly, like it does before he needs a diaper change. It is, literally, the time to, metaphorically, spit in their faces.
All my humble opinion, but finding a laughing defiance in the face of their unflinching hate is the proper response for someone like me. I hope you find the right response for you – and that it makes you happy, or proud, or rage-filled, or vengeful feeling, etc..
Just remember: if we made this bill toxic enough, they’d have to undo it.
WTFGhost
@HopefullyNotcassandra: There is a limit of $25000 annually on tips, and, it may be restricted to tipped employees, i.e. those that don’t get minimum wage.
As for this:
Someone posted that Southern men held honor and esteem above their own lives, and would FIGHT DUELS and WARS and and and, that made them more MANLY than those effete northerners, who’d say “dude, your bad opinion of me is not worth killing you over, much less dying over.”
Well – if true, this is them being able to rub in our face how they put EVERY SINGLE POISON PILL they’d ever IMAGINED into this bill, and “See? Ha ha haha ha! You can’t stop us!” They *DOMINATED*. They have HIGHER STATUS. They are thereby MORE MANLY.
Last time they felt that way, we had to kill an awful lot of them. I hope that’s not necessary again, but it’s looking to get that way. There’s too many people who chase a Black man down, and when he tries to swipe a gun off them, shoot him, and claim self defense from the kidnapping victim!
(At least four, IIRC, though I think they all went to jail.)
Geminid
@Steve LaBonne: Even if one of those swing district Republicans could eke out a primary win, enough Trumpers would stay home in November to sink them. The hard-core MAGA people have little party loyalty.
ArchTeryx
@Elizabelle: Yes, I do. But there is absolutely *no* way we can make up for the loss of close to $10B in Medicaid funding. And my job itself depends on Medicaid – I am a financial analyst for NYS. People are already panicking because every single person associated with the Medicaid program in New York just got put on a RIF list. And with work requirements, my disabilities, and the extreme cuts to Medicaid funding, the chances of my getting it after the layoffs hit are remote.
It’s not an immediate or instant threat like it was in 2017, but it’s a train that will not be stopped now.
Betty
@Hunter Gathers: Fitzpatrick had a die-in either at his office or home. I have seen both reported. He seemed to hide out for a while and then voted no. Not sure if the die-in persuaded him, but maybe there should be more of them to make the point.
Betty
@WaterGirl: And for Lisa. She was sure the House would fix it.
MrPug
They really seem to think, unfortunately with some justification, that there will be no, or at least very little, penalty to pay for passing one of the least popular bills in the history of the country. November 2026 is a long way away and the really worst of the bill, from impacting people’s access to healthcare and, you know, food, won’t happen until after that.
gene108
@MrPug:
I read an article a little while ago, I canât remember where, that quoted a doctor at a rural hospital. The biggest problem with closing rural hospitals, and clinics will be for people with chronic conditions to receive care.
People dying from kidney failure or heart disease because of uncontrolled diabetes or high blood pressure will take quite some time before being readily apparent in health data.
So even after the worst hits, itâll take awhile for the effects to become noticeable.
David Anderson
@Marcopolo: The ACA will be here next year and if you get the benchmark Silver plan, you’re probably paying an extra $20 to $40 per month
NotMax
Pic caption?
“Salaam aleikum, y;all.”
;)
NotMax
# 42 – wrong thread.
WTFGhost
@MrPug: Well, they’ve just told us that our most important job for the next 15 months is to stuff this ugly turd back down their throat.
Wapiti
@trollhattan: If some farmer has a really low priority for water (I think it’s based on seniority, when that piece of land first started using water), they’re pretty well dry and broke in a drought. Better to grow solar that pays out whether you’re in drought or not.
dm
@trollhattan: Many vegetables do well under solar panels too — some of them the story of thing the Imperial Valley is famous for.
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/agrivoltaic-opportunities-grow-crops-in-solar-energy-systems
https://www.telkes.org/landowner-news/what-can-you-grow-with-agrivoltaics-a-guide-to-crops-for-dual-use-farming
AnnaN
I’m pretty sure that the consequences of future elections has no bearing on how the Repubs voted. I find it easy to believe we will no longer have national elections which matter.  This is our Putin Era.
Marcopolo
@David Anderson: Ty for the reply. Â Thatâs much less worse than i expected.
HopefullyNotcassandra
@Captain C: Â Some might think so.
I couldnât possibly comment.
HopefullyNotcassandra
@WTFGhost: thank you for the clarification.
I hear you otherwise.
There certainly are more sadists running around than I thought.
Bless their tiny hearts, these Goypers want every zygote born and folks on Medicaid to be bankrupted every time. Â No baby can be covered until 30! days after birth.