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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.

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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.”

Source: Office of Rep. Thomas H. Kean, Jr.

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).

Sources: Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

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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