SALT Cap Limbo Threatens Suburban Swing District Democrats
- Biden’s stalled economic package hurts party’s 2022 prospects
- Democratic districts disproportionately affected by 2017 cap
Sean Patrick Maloney
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Democrats risk losing their edge in key suburban districts amid a congressional stalemate over President Joe Biden’s economic agenda that threatens plans to expand a tax break for well-off homeowners.
Many voters in affluent suburbs across the country from New Jersey to Washington state abandoned the Republican party in the 2018 congressional elections, helping to swing the House into Democratic control one year after the GOP set a $10,000 limit on the long-standing federal deduction for state and local taxes, or SALT.