Democrats' Sweeping Climate, Health Care And Tax Bill Has Passed The Senate

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21. I know they were paired

and what you mention was the assumption - that the SALT limit would remain (I saw a CNN article linked mention that), and this is what the haggling was about, but here is what the descriptions are - https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_117_2.htm

324 (50-50) Agreed to On the Amendment S.Amdt. 5488: Warner Amendment No. 5488; To strike the extension of the limitation on State and local taxes and extend the limitation on excess business losses of noncorporate taxpayers, and for other purposes. H.R. 5376 Aug 07

323 (57-43) Agreed to On the Amendment S.Amdt. 5472: Thune Amendment No.5472; To remove harmful small business taxes, and for other purposes.

I don't have a copy of what the full amendments look like (and the roll calls for those aren't yet available on the Senate website) but the issue was that if the SALT wasn't dealt with, then there would be (D)s voting against it when it got to the House, and we can't lose but so many votes there (maybe no more than 4?).

So it could be the wording of the excerpts were not reflecting the actual amendment wording but just the sections that were being amended.