Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday signaled that changes will be made to the party’s mega-bill full of President Trump’s legislative priorities in order to win support from conservative and moderate Republicans balking at some of its provisions.

Those alterations, he warned, will not only include a larger tax break for blue states that several Republican moderates are demanding but also steeper spending cuts elsewhere in the bill, as fiscal hawks raise alarm that the legislation does not do enough to rein in the ballooning deficit.

“If you do more on SALT, you have to find more in savings. So these are the dials, the metaphorical dials I'm talking about,” Johnson said, referring to the state and local tax (SALT) deduction. “When you're trying to craft a piece of legislation that is this comprehensive and this complex, it requires a lot of thought and deliberation.”

The Speaker declined to elaborate on what specifically would be changed, saying only that “everything is on the table.”

The warning came after a two-hour-plus meeting in the Speaker’s office Thursday, during with Johnson met with moderate Republicans pushing for a higher SALT deduction cap and hard-line conservatives calling for much more muscular Medicaid changes — requests that are red lines for the opposite camps.

Republicans from high-tax blue states — including New York, New Jersey and California — are calling........

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