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Senate Majority John Thune mentioned that the SALT tax portion of the invoice will have to be modified by the Senate, however SALT Home Republicans mentioned that any modifications would make them no votes on last passage.
Jake Sherman of Punchbowl Information posted on X:
JOHNSON mentioned he spoke with the SALT Caucus on the Home ground simply now. The speaker mentioned that he plans to talk to Senate management to inform them it’s a “very delicate factor.” Thune says the Home salt deal must be modified.
Laura Weiss of Punchbowl mentioned that the Home Republicans who negotiated the SALT credit score settlement mentioned that if the deal is modified, they’ll vote in opposition to the invoice:
SALT Caucus Republicans are up in arms over Thune’s feedback that SALT deal will possible change in Senate. (Rep.) LALOTA says altering $40K cap “can be like digging up safely buried radioactive waste — reckless, destabilizing and positive to infect all the things round it”
(Rep.) LAWLER says he’s a no if SALT is modified
Bear in mind, the Home handed the invoice by a single vote, 215-214, so if one Republican modifications their vote from a sure to a no, the invoice will die.
Rep. Lawler’s menace signifies that all the invoice may sink.
The explanation why Republicans could be keen to sink all the invoice is that they know that they’ve till the tip of the yr to increase the Trump tax cuts.
A rising variety of Home and Senate Republicans need to abandon the large invoice and attempt to move the items of the invoice as stand-alone laws.
The Large Lovely Invoice is a huge, ugly mess that’s near collapsing beneath the load of its personal dysfunction. There was at all times the likelihood that if the Senate amended the invoice, the Home wouldn’t move it, and people modifications have gotten more and more prone to turn into actuality.
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