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Checked against the record · New Jersey 7th District 2026

Has Tom Kean Jr. worked to restore the full SALT deduction?

Matches stated direction. He cosponsored bills to repeal the SALT cap and voted for the 2025 tax law, which raised the cap to $40,000 but kept it, and returns it to $10,000 in 2030.

Thomas H. Kean Jr.

Taxes: restoring the SALT deduction

Matches stated direction

What they say

His congressional site calls restoring the full state and local tax deduction one of his most important priorities, and says he cosponsored the SALT Deductibility Act.

“One of my most important priorities in Congress is to restore the full State and Local Tax (SALT) Deduction.”

What the record shows · Jul 4, 2025

He is an original cosponsor of H.R. 430, the SALT Deductibility Act, which would repeal the cap; it has not left committee. He voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 on May 22, 2025 (Roll Call 145) and Aye on the final House vote on July 3 (Roll Call 190). The law, Public Law 119-21, raises the cap from 10,000 dollars to 40,000 for 2025, rising one per cent a year through 2029. It shrinks by 30 per cent of income above 500,000 dollars, never below 10,000, and returns to 10,000 dollars in 2030. In the previous Congress he cosponsored three SALT bills, H.R. 2555, H.R. 160 and H.R. 7160, and voted Aye on the rule to bring H.R. 7160 to the floor, which failed on February 14, 2024 (Roll Call 48).

Limit: He sponsored no SALT bill of his own in either Congress, and his votes went the way the claim says. The law he voted for raised the cap and kept it; that is not the full restoration his page names, and the higher cap ends after 2029. His office's claim that he "led the fight" is not something a vote record can measure.

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  1. SALT Deductionhttps://kean.house.gov/issues/salt-deduction

    Office of Rep. Thomas H. Kean, Jr. · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    His congressional office's issue page, in his own voice. Also lists his office's releases on the subject, including a February 27, 2026 roundtable on the "restored" deduction and an opinion piece titled "Kean: I led the fight to restore N.J.'s property tax deduction".

    candidate statement

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  2. H.R. 430, SALT Deductibility Act, 119th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/430

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Rep. Garbarino. Kean is an original cosponsor, from January 15, 2025. Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, where it remains.

    official legislative record

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  3. Roll Call 145, H.R. 1, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025145

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of May 22, 2025, passed 215 to 214. Kean: Yea. On Roll Call 144 the same day, a motion to recommit, he voted Nay, which is a vote against sending the bill back.

    official legislative record

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  4. Roll Call 190, H.R. 1, on concurring in the Senate amendmenthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025190

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of July 3, 2025, passed 218 to 214. Kean: Aye.

    official legislative record

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  5. H.R. 1, 119th Congress, Public Law 119-21https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Enacted text read from GovInfo (PLAW-119publ21). Section 70120 replaces the 10,000 dollar cap on the deduction for state and local taxes with 40,000 dollars for 2025, 40,400 for 2026 and one per cent more each year through 2029, reduced by 30 per cent of income above 500,000 dollars but not below 10,000, and returning to 10,000 dollars from 2030. Section 71119 requires states to set Medicaid community engagement (work) requirements for certain adults. Section 50102 orders at least 30 Gulf of America oil and gas lease sales through 2040.

    official legislative record

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  6. H.R. 2555, SALT Deductibility Act, 118th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2555

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Rep. Garbarino. Kean is an original cosponsor, from April 10, 2023. Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, where it stayed.

    official legislative record

    For: Has Tom Kean Jr. worked to restore the full SALT deduction?

  7. H.R. 160, SALT Fairness Act of 2023, 118th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/160

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Rep. Mike Garcia. Kean cosponsored it on March 9, 2023. Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, where it stayed.

    official legislative record

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  8. H.R. 7160, SALT Marriage Penalty Elimination Act, 118th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7160

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Rep. Lawler. Kean is an original cosponsor, from January 31, 2024. The rule for its consideration, H. Res. 994, failed, so it never got a floor vote.

    official legislative record

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  9. Roll Call 48, H. Res. 994, on agreeing to the resolutionhttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202448

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of February 14, 2024, failed 195 to 225. Kean: Aye. H. Res. 994 was the rule for considering H.R. 7160 and H. Res. 987, a resolution on the Biden administration's energy policies.

    official legislative record

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