Three California Republican members of Congress broke ranks on Thursday to vote against the Republican tax reform bill that passed the House of Representatives.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Costa Mesa, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, and Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove, all voted against the bill, which passed 227-205. The rest of California’s congressional delegation voted along party lines, with Democrats opposing the bill and the 11 other Republicans supporting it.

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Letters: Not getting it | Bait and switch | Eshoo effective | What’s scarier? | Misplaced blame | Change needed The three GOP members who opposed the bill were among 13 Republicans in the House to vote against it, most from other high-tax states such as New York and New Jersey.

Those opposing the bill cited the elimination of a deduction that allowed taxpayers to write off state and local income tax they paid each year, as well as a cap on a property tax deduction. Getting rid of the income tax deduction would especially hit Californians, who pay relatively high state taxes, they said.

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More than six million Californians take advantage of the state and local tax deduction each year, deducting an average of $18,438 per family, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. And more than a third of the households in Rohrabacher, Issa and McClintock’s districts took the deduction in 2015, IRS data shows.

“I didn’t come to Washington to raise taxes on my constituents and I do not plan to start today,” Issa said in a statement. “It’s disappointing that the bill approved today will not provide the same tax relief to Californians as it does to the rest of the nation.”

But the Republicans backing the tax plan argued that as a whole it would reduce tax rates for individuals and businesses, spurring economic growth.

“Passage of the House bill is the first step toward significantly lowering the tax burden in the Central Valley,” Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Turlock, said in a statement. “I look forward to working with the Senate to send a final bill to the president’s desk that will benefit valley families, create jobs and put more money in people’s pockets.”

Issa and Rohrabacher, whose districts voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, are seen as two of the most vulnerable incumbent members of Congress in the country in 2018. McClintock is in a fairly safe Republican district, but he was outraised by a Democratic challenger in the latest fundraising reports.

Expect this vote to be a key campaign issue in 2018. In addition to the state and local tax deduction, the bill will also eliminate popular deductions for student loans, medical expenses, and educator expenses, and lower the cap on mortgage deductions. McClintock proposed an amendment to save those deductions from the chopping block, but it failed to pass.

“What a brilliant Republican strategy to lose the House in 2018,” said Kait Sweeney, a spokesperson for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal group. “Republicans are delusional if they think this vote won’t haunt them.”

California’s Republican delegation had previously stuck together on controversial votes, backing an effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act earlier this year and unanimously supporting earlier procedural efforts that laid the groundwork for the tax reform bill.

The Senate is working on its own version of tax reform, which could be substantially different from what the House approved today — and may also be more difficult to pass. Republicans in that chamber can afford to lose only two votes on the bill.

That means that the House Republicans who backed tax reform might face a similar situation they encountered during the health care debate: casting a potentially politically dangerous vote only to see the bill they supported run aground in the Senate.