Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is scheduled to meet with Senate Republicans at lunch Friday in an attempt to keep President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on track amid strong pushback from GOP lawmakers over cuts to Medicaid and an expensive proposal to raise the $10,000 cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions.

Bessent will explain to GOP senators a tentative deal the White House reached with House Republicans from New York, New Jersey and California who want to raise the SALT cap.

“There’s a tentative deal struck between the House and the White House that has to be sold to the Senate,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said........

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