Sen. Mullin on the SALT Bill: We‘re Trying to Give Those That Want It and Oppose It ‘Enough Reasons to Support It,’ But Maybe Not Love It

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MULLIN: "This is how things are negotiating. That was 2 or 3 days ago. We were negotiating with the treasury last night until 10:00. The salt guys. Nick wasn‘t there, but we‘ve got language now. That is really acceptable. In fact, I can‘t speak for them all, but I‘m pretty sure that they‘re going to be able to find a good landing spot. We‘re still trying to massage it in, and the Senate side, but we‘re going to we‘re going to find the solution. I‘ve always said this. It‘s not going to be a deal. Not everybody‘s going to love it. And a deal is something everybody loves or can accept. This is going to be a situation where we‘re trying to give the salt guys that want it and the salt guys that oppose it. Enough reasons to support it, but maybe not love it. And that‘s called negotiating. And we‘re at that spot. I think we‘re really, really close to closing this out probably tonight. And that‘s one of the sticking points. So the two sticking points, which salt is what I‘ve been negotiating for three weeks now. Hard intensively negotiating. And I‘ve had great conversations with Nick and all these guys. The president has weighed in secretary best has has been phenomenal working with us. The speaker, leader thune, we‘ve all been engaged and I feel like we‘re going to get to a solution this evening. And and this is one of those things we‘ve we‘ve talked about it. We‘ve talked about everybody‘s concerns. But at some point we‘ve got to make a decision. And the decision is what can we get 51 votes on in the house or in the Senate? And what is the magic number in the house? Typically we say 218 but you saw the last time they passed a major bill out of there, 1515, 14 yeah."