House Speaker Mike Johnson said he’s pressuring Senate Republicans to refrain from changing a deal to increase the state and local tax deduction cap to $40,000, pushing back on President Donald Trump’s willingness to scale back the write-off.

Speaker Johnson is now staring down Senate tax writers who are doubling down on threats to scale back his carefully negotiated deal to raise the state-and-local-tax deduction cap.

The high-tax states aren’t represented by Republicans in the Senate, and the bill is predicted to be extremely costly.

Advancing American Freedom wants the Senate to change the "big, beautiful bill," but some demands could harm the legislation's viability with key groups of GOP lawmakers.

Republicans in the House have proposed a $40,000 cap for those with incomes less than $400,000 after Rep. Mike Lawler argued for it.