Democrats say they’re in striking distance of reaching a long-sought deal on expanding social safety net programs, but still need to resolve a handful of key sticking points.
The Democrats' strategy for enacting President Biden's agenda hit a major snag Friday when nine House moderates bucked party leaders with threats of tanking a $3.5 trillion budget bill unless they can vote first on
The New Jersey House members said in their letter that government employment has declined since the pandemic began and that the job losses are concentrated in areas such as education. They also said that many of the states that have been hit hardest by the pandemic are those that send more money to the federal government than they receive. Removing the SALT cap would be a textbook method to provide relief to communities ravaged by the pandemic, the lawmakers wrote.
House Democrats last year passed two coronavirus relief bills that included the temporary repeal of the SALT deduction cap, but those bills were not taken up by the Senate. Repeal of the deduction cap was not included in the $1.9 trillion relief package that Biden proposed earlier this month.