GOP lawmaker warns he'll 'vote no on the final bill' unless Senate reverses major change
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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