House Republicans who ran on hiking the SALT cap are poised to come out in politically good shape as negotiations with the Senate appear unlikely to result in considerable changes to the cap agreed to in the House.
The so-called “SALT caucus” pushed hard to quadruple the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions, a cap that was initially imposed by Republicans in 2017. Senate Republicans wanted to negotiate down that cap in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but it doesn’t appear that the Senate will be able to lower the cap from the $40,000 level set in the version of the bill passed by the House.
“I really doubt it will be adjusted much if they want this bill to become law,” Rep.
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