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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    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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      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

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      Mass protests, general strikes that last for more than a Sunday afternoon

      Joke’s on you, our protests took place on Saturday afternoons!