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34 minutes ago
- New York Post
NY reps warn Senate version of ‘big, beautiful' bill will be ‘dead on arrival' if SALT cap lowered to $10K
They're getting SALT-y. Blue state Republican reps railed against rumored Senate plans to lower the state and local tax deduction (SALT) cap back down from the House-negotiated level of $40,000 to its current $10,000 threshold — vowing that it will be 'dead on arrival.' Ahead of the Senate Finance Committee's release of its text for its modifications to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, reporting from Punchbowl News indicated that the panel planned to chop down the SALT increase as a placeholder while negotiations play out. The official text is slated to drop Monday evening, but multiple New York reps preemptively dubbed SALT pareback a dealbreaker. 'I have been clear since Day One: sufficiently lifting the SALT Cap to deliver tax fairness to New Yorkers has been my top priority in Congress,' Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) said in a statement. 4 Rep. Mike Lawler had emerged as one of the top hardliners in the SALT negotiations. Getty Images 'After engaging in good faith negotiations, we were able to increase the cap on SALT from $10,000 to $40,000. That is the deal, and I will not accept a penny less. If the Senate reduces the SALT number, I will vote NO, and the bill will fail in the House.' Lawler doubled down on X, writing, 'Consider this the response to the Senate's 'negotiating mark': DEAD ON ARRIVAL' with a meme of Steve Carell as Michael Scott from 'The Office' shaking his head. The House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last month, but the megabill next needs to clear the Senate and then survive the House again before it can get to President Trump's desk. Unlike the House, the Senate does not have any Republicans elected from high-taxed blue states where SALT is a pressing issue. Many Senate Republicans have openly grumbled over the inclusion of a SALT hike. 4 President Trump has been prodding congressional Republicans to send him the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to sign. Getty Images 'I think at the end of the day, we'll find a landing spot. Hopefully that will get the votes we need in the House, a compromise position on the SALT issue,' Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told 'Fox News Sunday,' indicating that there isn't an appetite in the upper chamber for a large SALT cap hike. The House is home to the SALT Caucus, which includes blue state Republicans who have conditioned their support of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on a SALT cap hike. 'The $40,000 SALT deduction was carefully negotiated,' Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) said in a statement. 'For the Senate to leave the SALT deduction capped at $10,000 is not only insulting but a slap in the face to the Republican districts that delivered our majority and trifecta,' she added. 'We have members representing blue states with high taxes that are subsidizing many red districts across the country.' 4 Rep. Nicole Malliotakis is the sole Republican congresswoman who represents part of New York City. Getty Images Republican SALT Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Young Kim (Calif.) and Andrew Garbarino (NY) also warned that the leaked draft is 'putting the entire bill at risk.' 'We have been crystal clear that the SALT deal we negotiated in good faith with the Speaker and the White House must remain in the final bill,' they said in a joint statement. 'The Senate should work with us.' Given the narrow 220 to 212 House GOP majority, leadership in the lower chamber cannot afford SALT-related defections. At most, House leadership can only afford three defections if there's full attendance. Meanwhile, passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in the Senate has been complicated by fiscal hawks who have demanded that the megabill have less of an impact on the deficit. 4 Senate committees are starting to roll out their revisions to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. AP The megabill is projected to increase the deficit by $3 trillion over the next decade, according to an estimate from the Congressional Budget Office. Senate Republicans are also keen on exploring ways of making certain temporary business tax cuts in the package permanent. SALT emerged as a problem for blue state lawmakers after Republicans imposed a $10,000 cap on it in 2017 as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The cap was intended to help pay for other provisions of the bill. A spokesperson for the Senate Finance Committee declined to confirm whether or not the lowered SALT cap is in the panel's draft of the megabill. 'Everyone will get accurate info when bill text is released,' the spokesperson said.
The Hill
an hour ago
- The Hill
CHC asks Johnson, Thune to ‘uphold the dignity' of Congress after Padilla handcuffing
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) is calling on Republican leadership to 'uphold the dignity and authority of Congress' after Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) was handcuffed when interjecting at a press conference held by Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem on Friday. Padilla was blocked by security as he advanced toward the front of the room, identifying himself and saying he had a question. He was then pushed out of the room, forced to the ground and handcuffed. The incident is sparking concern among Democrats who see his treatment as a crackdown on the party's pushback on the administration. More than 180 Democrats signed onto a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) calling the episode 'shocking and deeply troubling mistreatment.' 'Senator Padilla clearly identified himself and was acting within his rights as a Member of Congress. The use of force against a sitting senator—in a federal building, during official business—is a grave breach of protocol. It is also a potential violation of separation of powers and raises alarming questions about the conduct of federal law enforcement agencies, the coordination of protective services, and the administration's posture toward congressional oversight,' the lawmakers wrote in the letter spearheaded by the CHC. 'This unprecedented incident is not simply an affront to security protocol—it is a constitutional issue—as these actions may constitute an assault on a sitting senator. If members of the United States Senate can be physically restrained for seeking answers from executive officials, it sets a dangerous precedent for the independence of the legislative branch.' Thune's office didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Johnson's office pointed to earlier remarks from the Speaker, including his backing censuring Padilla over the move. 'A sitting member of Congress should not act like that. It is beneath a member of Congress. It is beneath a U.S. Senator. They're supposed to lead by example. And that is not a good example. We have to turn the temperature down in this country and not escalate it. The Democrat Party is on the wrong side. They are defending lawbreakers and now they are acting like lawbreakers themselves,' Johnson said last week. Pressed on whether Padilla should face consequences, Johnson initially demurred — 'it's not my decision to make, I'm not in that chamber' — before endorsing censure for the California Democrat. 'I think that that behavior at a minimum rises to the level of a censure,' Johnson told reporters. 'I think there needs to be a message sent by the body as a whole that that is not what we're going to do, that's not what we're going to act.' 'We're not going to have branches fighting physically and having senators charging Cabinet secretaries,' he added. 'We got to do better and I hope that we will.' Thune said he plans to 'gather all the relevant information' about what happened. 'We want to get the full scope of what happened and do what we would do in any incident like this involving a senator and try to gather all the relevant information,' Thune said. Chair Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) last week led a march to Johnson's office shortly after Padilla was handcuffed. 'I feel this amounts to an assault, a felony, and we want a full and complete investigation of this matter immediately,' Espaillat said at the time. 'We have concerns, grave concerns, when the Speaker of the House refers to a sitting member of the US Senate who simply tried to exercise his first amendment rights as acting like a thug.' 'We feel very strongly that there is an intimidation campaign to try to silence dissent, and that's very dangerous,' he added.
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
Senate Deadlocked on SALT, With Draft Bill Showing Current $10,000 Cap
(Bloomberg) -- The Senate's version of President Donald Trump's tax bill calls for a $10,000 cap on the state and local tax deduction — a placeholder figure as Republicans remain divided over the valuable tax break. As Part of a $45 Billion Push, ICE Prepares for a Vast Expansion of Detention Space As American Architects Gather in Boston, Retrofits Are All the Rage The draft bill — slated to be released later on Monday — includes the current $10,000 SALT cap, according to a person familiar with the matter. But the Senate will continue to negotiate the deduction as it aims to pass the legislation by a self-imposed July 4 deadline. The House version of the bill calls for a $40,000 SALT cap, with some limits for claiming the write-off based on income. Some House lawmakers from high-tax states have threatened to block the legislation if the Senate lowers that cap. The $10,000 language suggests that the Senate is willing to engage in a high-stakes and politically divisive negotiation to reach a SALT cap that is far lower than the $40,000 the House agreed upon. Representative Mike Lawler of New York called a $10,000 cap 'DEAD ON ARRIVAL.' Fellow New York Representative Nicole Malliotakis said the Senate draft is 'insulting' and a 'slap in the face.' 'The $40,000 SALT deduction was carefully negotiated along with other tax provisions by the House of Representatives and we all had to give a little to obtain the votes to pass the Big Beautiful Bill,' she said in a post on X. 'We need to recognize that we have members representing blue states with high taxes that are subsidizing many red districts across the country.' Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on Fox News Sunday there is no real interest among Republicans who hail from low tax states to raise the SALT cap to the $40,000 level called for in the House-passed version. 'I think at the end of the day we'll find a landing spot. Hopefully that will get the votes we need in the House, a compromise position on the SALT issue,' Thune said. Raising the SALT cap to the House level would cost some $350 billion and Senate Republicans would prefer to spend that money extending temporary business tax breaks they argue are more pro-growth. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he is calling on Senate leaders to preserve the House deal as much as possible. (Adds details from fourth paragraph and Malliotakis post) American Mid: Hampton Inn's Good-Enough Formula for World Domination The Spying Scandal Rocking the World of HR Software How a Tiny Middleman Could Access Two-Factor Login Codes From Tech Giants US Allies and Adversaries Are Dodging Trump's Tariff Threats As Companies Abandon Climate Pledges, Is There a Silver Lining? ©2025 Bloomberg L.P. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
