Big changes for a big bill

June 12, 2025, 9:53 AM UTC

Senate Republicans Prepare Changes to Trump’s Tax Bill

The Senate is beginning to leave its fingerprints on the House-passed sprawling reconciliation bill cutting trillions in taxes and spending — and the changes aren’t minimal as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) may have liked.

Senate Republicans huddled for more than an hour and a half where committee chairs briefed members on their portions of the bill, outlining just some of the changes they plan to make to the legislation, including alterations to a new cost-sharing proposal for food assistance programs and a reduction to the state-and-local-tax deduction.

The SALT deduction cap has ...

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