The agreement marks a big win for SALT cap crusaders like Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) and others who have demanded the SALT cap be lifted as part of reconciliation.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday argued that Republicans are “tremendously unified” despite party infighting over his sweeping budget and tax cuts bill.

President Trump visited the Capitol in an attempt to unify divided House Republicans on the multitrillion-dollar budget package that is at risk of collapsing before planned votes this week.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and moderate Republicans have zeroed in on an agreement for the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap, three sources told The Hill, solving a critical hang-up that

A faction of New York's Republican congressional delegation has threatened to reject any tax package that does not give a meaningful raise to the SALT cap.

Moody's downgrade of the U.S. sovereign credit rating has elicited mixed responses among Republicans in Congress, with some questioning the motive behind the change and others depicting it as a warning that lawmakers should heed as they wrestle with a sweeping tax and budget bill.

For every group demanding one policy, another equally powerful bloc insists on the opposite. The coalitions encompass the divergent ideological, political and regional interests in the G.O.P.

Issues over tax relief for blue state Republicans are coming to a head as the GOP crafts President Trump's "big, beautiful bill."