SALT Cap Haunts GOP House Candidates as Democrats Turn Tables

Democrats running to unseat endangered blue-state Republicans get to campaign on an unusual message: The GOP is hiking your taxes.

The path to sustaining the House majority largely depends on whether Republicans can maintain their footholds in New York, New Jersey, and California, but those races may be tough if Republicans can’t raise the cap on the state-and-local tax deduction the GOP enacted in 2017.

That tax law instituted a $10,000 limit on the SALT deduction, drawing nay votes from a dozen House Republicans at the time, nearly all from high-tax states. The cap funded big tax cuts for individuals ...