{"id":9393,"date":"2025-05-19T20:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T20:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-to-meet-again-with-salt-republicans\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T20:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T20:01:57","slug":"mike-johnson-to-meet-again-with-salt-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-to-meet-again-with-salt-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson to meet again with SALT Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/242539\" data-person-id=\"242539\">Mike Johnson<\/a> is set to hold another meeting with Republican members pushing for a higher cap on the state-and-local-tax deduction on Monday night. <\/p>\n<p>The 9 p.m. meeting, confirmed by three Republicans granted anonymity to describe private plans, comes amid a final push from GOP leaders toward a vote on the <a href=\"https:\/\/legislation.politicopro.com\/bill\/US_119_HR_DRAFT5\" target=\"_blank\">party-line domestic policy bill<\/a>, with the crucial blue-state tax deduction remaining in flux. The SALT group has not gotten a revised offer from leadership since last week, though Johnson and other leaders discussed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/16\/congress\/salt-deduction-offer-40000-00353846\" target=\"_blank\">possible $40,000 cap<\/a> with a separate group of holdouts.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is hoping to put the megabill on the House floor as soon as Wednesday, the three Republicans said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is set to hold another meeting with Republican members pushing for a higher cap on the state-and-local-tax deduction on Monday night. The 9 p.m. meeting, confirmed by three Republicans granted anonymity to describe private plans, comes amid a final push from GOP leaders toward a vote on the party-line domestic policy bill, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}