The chair of the House’s tax-writing panel said the $30,000 limit his committee put on the state and local tax deduction is “fair” and lawmakers from high-tax states should accept it.“It’s not everything that some of the SALT members want,

Fully repealing the SALT cap would disproportionately help the richest of the rich, with the 1% getting 43% of the benefit.

The fight has pitted the GOP's top tax writer against a determined bloc of House Republicans from high-tax states. It has also created divisions between the pro-SALT Republicans.