Opinion | The SALT Democrats Surrender

Remember how House Democrats from New Jersey and New York vowed to oppose a tax-and-spending bill that didn’t lift the $10,000 deduction limit for state-and-local taxes? Read their lips. “No SALT, no deal,” New York Rep. Tom Suozzi said. On Friday all of them broke their pledge as the House bill passed on a party-line 220-207 vote.

The SALT caucus explanations are amusing in their misdirection. “This bill doesn’t raise taxes one penny on families or small businesses in my district,” New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer said. “We also stopped those in red states trying to further gut SALT, and those who wanted to raise taxes on individuals and small businesses in Jersey.”