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.
39 Comments
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 138 pts · 31d
YAY! FASCISM!!!
it's what assholes crave!
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 31d
Weird, my asshole craves girldick
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 31d
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.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 31d
Sounds
prettyat least 1/3 gay TBF.JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 31d
You've gotta understand the cognitive dissonance at play.
If you get fucked by a transfem with long hair, tits, and a dick....that's woman enough for it to not be gay. 2/3 is a majority.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 31d
Hmm... I'm not sure I totally agree, but I will edit my comment for sake of argument.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 31d
Sir, this is a Wendys
ironchico@lemmy.world · -19 pts · 31d
And yet the American populace will do absolutely nothing.
mriormro@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 31d
https://lemmy.world/comment/13456383
You are useless.
ironchico@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 31d
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?
gwulgg@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 31d
So many of your comments are this condescending idiot shit, so I guess if all Americans just posted like smug dipshits like you everything would be perfect
ironchico@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 28d
So your solution is to do nothing?
gwulgg@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 28d
No my solution is to post like a condescending idiot like you
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 31d
Joke's on you, our protests took place on Saturday afternoons!
gh0stb4tz@lemmy.world · 89 pts · 31d
Welfare for farmers… wait a second, isn’t that socialism?
jtrek@startrek.website · 47 pts · 31d
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.
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 31d
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
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 31d
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.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 31d
No, that's just a simple helping hand. You're just not looking at it in the White way.
flandish@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 31d
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 44 pts · 31d
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.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 31d
Most of the farmland is owned by a handful of oligarchs and mega-corps
Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 31d
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.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
Wouldn't be the first time Donald Trump just started handing out checks and hoping for the best.
But it's easy to take someone's money and still hate the guy signing the check. Ask any wage laborer.
flandish@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 31d
it is when you consider that farms are mega corps these days. they don’t care about a little co-op in Shelbina, MO.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 31d
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
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 31d
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.
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 31d
Treason.
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 31d
Where were the fillabuster avoidance strategies when dems were in power FFS. Dems are shit at politics and power.
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 31d
The House doesn't have a filibuster. It never has. The Senate has the filibuster.
makyo@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 31d
And they’re trying to pass it off as a budget related bill which is immune to filibusters
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 31d
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
Manjushri@piefed.social · 4 pts · 31d
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.
makyo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d
I think you’re right though I feel like I remember at least one that they waved through though it wasn’t really qualified
flandish@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
dems do it on purpose because reps are just fine with the anger that comes from them being “worse.” because in reality reps and dems are the same: capitalists.
_fryerDan@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 31d
god fucking dammit
velma@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 31d
Oh what the fuck
nullspace@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 31d
Kickbacks for red states and their constituents affected by the war.
Bwaz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 31d
Republicans are treasonus scum. What's new.
_fryerDan@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 31d