President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" may be in danger, as Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) said Friday he will "vote no on the final bill" f Senate Republicans “cut even a penny from the House’s $40K SALT deal.”
In a post on the social platform X, LaLota wrote: “The $10K cap from 2017 helped pay for TCJA 1—my middle-class constituents won’t pay again for TCJA 2.”
The stalemate surrounding the state and local tax [SALT] deduction cap continues to intensify, as Senate Republicans and House moderates from high-tax blue states remain at an impasse — a gridlock that could jeopardize leadership’s aim of passing the party’s “big, beautiful bill” by July 4.
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Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) — a former House member and a crucial go-between for Republicans in both chambers — met with members of the House GOP SALT Caucus on Wednesday to address the matter, per The Hill.
According to The Hill, Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.), Young Kim (R-Calif.) and Tom Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) were in attendance.
Hawley warned that sweeping Republican health care legislation included in the bill is in serious jeopardy — calling the prospect of sending it to a conference committee a “nightmare scenario,” Axios reported Friday.
“I just think the idea of having now to go to a conference committee with the House because they say, well, we can’t pass this... I mean, good lord, that’s just a nightmare scenario,” Hawley told Axios.
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