Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he expects to have a deal on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap on Wednesday, after both sides of the tenuous negotiations reported progress following a Tuesday afternoon meeting.

Johnson said the group was waiting on the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the scorekeeper for Congress, to do more “number crunching” before landing on a number for the deduction cap.

“It will probably be tomorrow only because we need the joint tax people, the number crunchers, to do all of that work tonight, and we’ve asked them to do a lot,” Johnson told reporters. “We’re looking at different facts and figures, so I suspect the final analysis will be tomorrow.”

The positive outlook came after Johnson, moderate Republicans from high-tax blue states and JCT staff huddled in the Speaker’s office to discuss the SALT deduction cap, which is one of the largest — and most complicated — sticking points hampering progress on the GOP’s bill full of President Trump’s legislative priorities.

The House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over taxes, included a $30,000 SALT cap for individuals making less than $400,000 in their portion of the........

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