President Donald Trump’s future can adopt a “beautiful, beautiful draft law” that would finance his second agenda on salt.
The state’s deduction and local taxes were a wedge between Democrats and the Republicans, but now a division between Republicans representing high -tax areas and financial militants the Republican Party who viewed it as supported blue crops.
Adding more confusion about the discussion is the president himself, who has occurred to the legislation that is limited to discounts in the first place but has turned since then.
The Speaker of the House of Freedom, Representative Andy Harris, accompanied by Representative Chip Roy, talks about the Freedom field and their ongoing negotiations on the “Grand, Beautiful Bill” in the American Capitol Building, May 21, 2025 in Washington.
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What is salt?
Salt discount allows taxpayers to detail government and local taxes in their provision, including property taxes.
Residents of states such as New York, New Jersey and California, along with cities such as Salt Lake City, Miami and Houston, have used a greater share of wealthy taxpayers and home owners, the opponent is more than others, according to the tax authority data.
The Tax Corporation, a non -profit organization that analyzes tax data, which was found in 2017 that about 90 % of the discount value went to families that make more than $ 100,000.
Before 2017, taxpayers had an unlimited discount of salt. The average salt discount was about $ 13,000 in the country and less than 15,000 dollars in most provinces, according to a non -profit group The tax policy center in urban areas.
The cracks develop after Trump sets limits on salt
During his first term, the Law on Tax Discounts and Huge Jobs in Trump for 2017 made huge discounts for federal spending to pay the price of tax exemptions for the wealthy Americans. The draft law was crowned with salt deduction with $ 10,000.
Democrats and the Republicans in those states that have benefited from the high salt surface against this section of the draft law were detained, on the pretext that it will harm their voters.
Representative Ralph Norman and MP Cheeb Roy are attending the hearing of the House of Representatives Bases Committee on US President Donald Trump’s plan for extensive tax discounts, in Capitol Hill, in Washington, May 21, 2025.
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“It is a geographic redistribution of wealth,” said a geographic redistice member of the Republican Congress in New York, Lee Zeldin told CNBC in 2017. “When you take additional money from a state like New York or New Jersey to pay deeper tax costs elsewhere.”
Zealin, who was Trump’s choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency in his second term, was among the 13 members of the House of Representatives who voted against the bill.
Republicans in the House of Representatives, who prevailed in the end, claimed that salt had benefited from the richest Americans.
“This is related to granting diligent taxpayers the largest salary, and more wages than home,” said Paul Ryan at the time after passing the draft law on the house.
The Senate minority leader, Chak Schumer, subjected Trump and the Republicans over and over again to form salt discount and called for its elimination.
“Congress has placed Bullseye in New York State – you don’t have to be a party nose for the smell of mice, but I tell you, this plan is Tentin,” he told reporters in 2017.
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Garrett Watson, director of policy analysis at the Tax Corporation, told ABC News that the majority of taxpayers do not separate at the file. He said only a small port of taxpayers, approximately 5 million people, have discounts of salt more than $ 10,000.
“I think the reason that he is prominent is that it has a noticeable impact on taxpayers. It affects their net responsibility,” he said. “If you have $ 25,000 of salt discounts, for example, in New York City, the $ 15,000 teams can make a difference in the amount of taxes you pay, probably, up to hundreds or even thousands of dollars.”
Trump changes his melody, but not everyone plays
Trump ignored the criticism when the tax law fell in 2017 and pushed forward with Salt Cap, but his messenger changed after voting on him outside his post in 2020.
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump pledged to end the cover. He did not mention that he defended and signed the draft 2017 bill.
“I will manage it, restore salt, reduce your taxes, and much more,” Trump was actually published in September, before the campaign gathered in Nasso County, New York, one of the provinces that has most of the salt discounts.
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He made the same claim in the gathering, but he did not provide any details.
While the Republicans in New York welcomed the reversal, the Democrats, including Schumer, called for Trump for its hypocrisy.
“This did the tax bill, a dagger aimed at blue countries that want to spend more to help people with housing, health care, education, and transport,” Schumer said in the Senate Hall the day after the gathering. “Suddenly, now after he is in Long Island, selective memory loss begins in Donald Trump and completely reflects himself on salt.”
Trump continued to press for salt changes, but not everyone jumped on his party on board.
Salt in budget wounds
Salt has become a point attached to Republican fighting on Trump’s “major bill”.
Many members of the House of Representatives have pledged the Republican Party, including MP Mike Luller from New York, to vote, not on the bill without increasing the roof of salt.
“So, this, as is the case, I was very clear. This is not my support,” he told reporters last week.
Loler said Republican militants were “installing a full range of people receiving property taxes.”
“There is no deal without real salt repair,” Representative Nick Lotta, Representative Nick Lotta from New York.
Financial financial militants at the Malian House refer to any deal to raise the salt cover as they seek to reduce debt.
“You need to fail to the cuts we need to find the savings that we need to find. Stop,” said MP Eric Porleson, R-MO,. “The truth is that we will reach $ 37 trillion of debt and we have a deficit of $ 2 trillion. This is a math problem.”
Representative Mike Luller makes his way to a Republican Conference meeting in the House of Representatives with President Donald Trump on the budget reconciliation bill in Capitol in the United States, May 20, 2025.
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Watson said that the original maximum was designed to compensate for tax cuts for several trillion dollars in 2017 and this is a crucial part of the differentiation and complementarity account.
“You will need to find money elsewhere or increase the deficit,” he said.
Watson also pointed out that the discussion also focuses on “tax fairness”.
“This could enter into questions if the federal government supports or reduces effective tax rates for the high tax of the living countries. This is a profound dispute between the two parties,” he said.
In a meeting with Republicans in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Trump told them, “Do not let Solt hinder this law,” claiming that they are able to struggle to raise the maximum later.
An initial deal overnight, which would raise the maximum of $ 30,000, hopes for the leadership of the Republican Party to obtain the bill to the ground for voting.
Agenda bearing the phrase “one beautiful draft law law” printed on it during the hearing of the House of Representatives Bases Committee on US President Donald Trump’s plan for extensive tax discounts, in Capitol Hill, in Washington, May 21, 2025.
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Representative Andy Harris of Maryland, Chairman of the Conservative Freedom Board, said that the salt deal pushes the militants “away from the deal.”
“This bill has worsened overnight,” Harris told NewsMax on Wednesday. “There is no way to pass today.”
“We may need two weeks to settle everything, but it will not go anywhere today,” he said.
The militants gathered with Trump on Wednesday afternoon to find out if he could break the dilemma.
