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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.

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[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

making wild assumptions based on suspicions

Last month directly following DOGE's access to the National Labor Relations Board, users with Russian IPs were blocked from logging in to their systems with valid credentials. The attempt was only thwarted by geo blocking, meaning we only caught the ones who couldn't be bothered to use a VPN. And we only know about this incident because of a whistleblower at the NLRB.

The only person who's made an assumption here is you, my dude. And the fact that you would blatantly accuse me of making an assumption and call me hysterical without even the slightest attempt to confirm the information is exactly what I mean by "you lunatics." No you're not MAGA 'tard', you're worse because you're fighting their battles and you don't even know it. And don't you dare call me a fucking Democrat. That crosses the line. In fact I think you've got a few things backwards.

[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Could you post a source to back that claim? I pay attention to the news cycles and follow various new sources and I saw no such thing.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

And what? You couldn't possibly miss a story you have a clear and obvious bias against? Your fingers clearly work, but sure let me look that up for you.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/whistleblower-org-says-doge-may-have-caused-significant-cyber-breach-us-labor-2025-04-15/

[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

I never made the claim that I couldn’t have missed it, which is why I asked for the source. But I stand corrected on the Russian issue, I was not aware of this. That being said, I still cannot fundamentally agree that we’ve lost 100 years of progress because that is just not true. I’m way more worried about the precedents that are being set and how they will end up abused by future presidents of both parties.