Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., have been feuding on social media over Lawler’s insistence on raising the cap on state and local tax deduction.
Lawler is one of five blue state Republicans who have said they will not vote for the House’s budget reconciliation bill unless it includes a drastic increase in the SALT deduction. He recently rejected legislation from the House Ways and Means Committee that would increase the cap from $10,000 to $30,000 for those making under $400,000.
If Lawler and the other Republicans vote against the bill, it is likely doomed, given Republicans’ thin majority. This earned him the ire of Greene.
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