WASHINGTON -- Legislation that would make it easier for Congress to end your property tax break is slated for a vote in the U.S. House on Thursday, its future dependent on whether Republicans from high-tax states like New Jersey buck President Donald Trump to support their constituents.

The measure specifically targets the federal deduction for state and local taxes, which is crucial to New Jersey with the nation's highest property taxes. New Jersey taxpayers receive just 74 cents back for each $1 they send to Washington, lowest among the 50 states.

Approval of the budget resolution, which the Senate passed last week, would allow congressional Republicans to prevent a filibuster and exclude Democrats from their efforts to cut taxes.

"Comprehensive tax reform is a goal we should all share and lasting tax reform should be bipartisan," said Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-9th Dist., on the House floor Wednesday. "But this ain't it."

Negotiations continued into Thursday as GOP lawmakers from high-tax states such as New Jersey balked at making it easier to enact legislation that studies showed would raise taxes on middle-class families in their states.

"We believe there is a way forward to help them with some of those local taxes, especially in the area of property taxes," House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, told reporters Wednesday at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.

Even as talks continued, three of the state's five Republican lawmakers -- Reps. Frank LoBiondo, R-2nd Dist.; Chris Smith, R-4th Dist.; and Leonard Lance, R-7th Dist., all of whom voted against the initial budget resolution -- said they would vote no on Thursday.

A fourth lawmaker, Rep. Tom MacArthur, R-4th Dist., who backed the earlier measure, said he may join the dissenters because the new resolution specifically mentions the state and local tax deduction.

"Tax reform is good for the country," MacArthur said. "It's not good for the country when it's on the back of six states."

Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-11th Dist., who also voted yes initially, has not responded to questions about whether he will support this latest measure.

The question is whether House Republicans from high-tax states will vote for the resolution without assurances that the final legislation will address their concerns. If they do not, the budget resolution could fail.

"Are the remaining members of the Republican delegation from New York and New Jersey, as well as members from Washington state, California, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Minnesota, Illinois, and all the other states, going to stand up because they know this hurts middle-class constituents? " said Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.

Working hard on the biggest tax cut in U.S. history. Great support from so many sides. Big winners will be the middle class, business & JOBS — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2017

The offending provision was added in the Senate by U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., whose state received $2.07 from Washington for every $1 in federal taxes paid in 2015, more than 47 other states, according to the State University of New York's Rockefeller Institute of Government.

Efforts to remove the amendment were blocked by House Rules Committee, where five of the six GOP members voting no represent states that get more from the federal government than they pay in taxes.

"Republicans are adamant about eliminating this middle-class benefit,"said Pascrell, a member of the Ways and Means Committee.

Show me the middle class tax relief. It's not there. #TRIH pic.twitter.com/gdwv72n1Nf — Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) October 25, 2017

Of the 44.3 million taxpayers who took the state and local tax deduction in 2015, 38 million, or 86 percent, reported income of $200,000 or less, according to the Government Finance Officers Association.

Even if the resolution passes, lawmakers from high-tax states such as New Jersey can fight for the deduction when the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees actually write the tax legislation.

"There's nothing binding in the resolution at all," said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., a senior member of the House. "It's the tax bill, not the budget."

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