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Say, listen, let's pass this infrastructure bill now. it's hot. the senate just passed it. let's get it through and into law. progress ufz say, no, we're not going to pass that until we see what the senate is willing to do on the human infrastructure piece, the social safety net piece, things of that nature. so that is that tension right there. and listen, there have been people -- there have been certain house democrats that say they want to eliminate the salt cap, the state and local tax cap. they want to repeal that. that was done in the trump administration. people from the northeast are v...

And these people like the senators who believe that they alone can divide the will of the people or have a more important role to play than tens of millions of americans who by a majority want us to enact the rescue plan, jobs' plan, families plan, all of the things that we're trying to do to help people, i think they should get out of the way and let the will of the people decide. if republicans can win an election based on ideas, god bless them. i don't think it's going to happen any time soon. >> congressman, i know that joe manchin and kyrsten sinema are taking a bankrupt of the criticism ...

Playing ball. or centrists saying this will not fly in my district. it's not like joe biden has all democrats on the same page. >> he doesn't. but to be point, the centrists trying to get this s.a.l.t. cap solved are wimps. they're not making any significant theft. until they make a significant threat, like don't come to me to ask me to vote for the bill unless you repeal the s.a.l.t. caps, they're going to get nowhere. that's just how legislating works. it's not pretty. it's not fair all the time. but if you look -- i'm holding them out as an example but the freedom caucus in the trump era sa...

Nothing. that's the reality. at some point in the negotiation you need to pull back and say where are we and what do we agree on? at this point they only agree on the fact they need to do -- they both want to do a bill. that doesn't get you that far. so at some point you really have to kind of pull the plug because democrats are wasting what they would consider to be valuable time in getting this done. they're starting to get pressure from the progressive left to get a deal done. once this gets kicked to the fall, it will be a legislative flurry with government funding, the debt ceiling. you h...

Repealing Trump’s SALT Cap Deemed Unpopular as It Benefits Rich WASHINGTON—A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing to eliminate the cap on federal tax deductions for state and local taxes (SALT) but many argue that such a move would massively favor the rich. For decades, the ability to deduct SALT has been an important tax break for taxpayers who itemize deductions on their federal income tax returns. The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), however, limited the deduction for SALT payments to $10,000 a year. Any state and local individual income or property tax payments in exces...