‘Doesn’t Have The Votes’: GOP House Members Blast Senate’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill Revisions

The Senate Finance Committee released its revisions to President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful” bill Monday night, implementing changes to state and local tax (SALT) caps and green energy tax credits — drawing sharp disapproval from some GOP House members.

High SALT deduction caps were relentlessly pushed by the House members in the SALT Caucus, creating hurdles for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson as he sought to negotiate a deal to earn their votes. The caucus ultimately voted for the House-passed bill after negotiating a $40,000 SALT cap — but the Senate slashed the cap to $10,000, a change that could put the caucus’ votes at stake when the bill goes up for another House vote, assuming it passes the Senate.

SALT Caucus co-chairs, Republican Reps. Andrew Garbarino of New York and Young Kim of California, released a joint statement Monday night urging the Senate to support the House-passed SALT cap deductions.

“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. It not only upholds President Trump’s commitment to raise the SALT cap, but has been praised by middle-class families, firefighters, law enforcement, small business owners, and hardworking Americans across the country,” Garbarino and Kim wrote. “Instead of undermining the deal already in place and putting the entire bill at risk, the Senate should work with us to keep our promise of historic tax relief and deliver on our Republican agenda.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters Monday that negotiations would continue between the two houses to find a SALT number that both can agree on.

“We understand that it’s a negotiation,” Thune said. “Obviously there had to be some marker in the bill to start with. But we’re prepared to have discussions with our colleagues here in the Senate and figure out a landing spot.”

Republican New York Rep. Mike Lawler, a fellow caucus member, was sharper in his critique over the bill,