Charlie Kirk says “I think we gotta keep SALT out of the way” of the budget bill
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From the May 16, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): I totally agree. In fact, I was always a two bill guy.
REP ANDY BIGGS (GUEST): Yeah.
KIRK: I thought that — and, again, I'm not in charge, and the president knows far more than I do, and I support whatever he decides. But in my kind of elementary wisdom, I said that why don't we get a win the first hundred days on border and then do tax over the summer? But —
BIGGS: Yeah. Well, you know, there were so many ways to do it. The president wanted a big beautiful bill. I —
KIRK: And that's fine. I get the mentality of it. I get it.
BIGGS: And I told him, I said — I actually support a big beautiful bill if if we use the leverage right to get everybody on. I mean, so you have the SALT states. Right? I mean, you've got a group of people there —
KIRK: This is a huge thing.
BIGGS: Yeah. This is the state and local tax. And they want other Americans to subsidize their high property taxes to the tune of about 250 billion dollars over ten years was too little for them, they wanted more.
KIRK: We gotta keep SALT up the way it is. But it's not even the high taxes. We're subsidizing their bloated government programs indirectly.
BIGGS: Exactly.
KIRK: So we're subsidizing the California pension fund because they can't get their fiscal act together.
BIGGS: That's exactly right.
KIRK: It's an indirect subsidy to Democrat policies.
BIGGS: Totally correct.
KIRK: I think we — I think the way — the fact we got rid of SALT during the first Trump cuts shocked me.
BIGGS: Yeah.
KIRK: And I think we gotta keep SALT out of the way. I think the salt state and local deduction, I know that blue state people lose their mind. I'm sorry, guys. But is it property — it's state and local or is it property taxes?
BIGGS: It's both. I mean —
KIRK: I thought so.
BIGGS: Yes. So — but the bottom line is the offer it was in the bill. It was in this bill, Charlie. You give $30,000 up to $30,000 deduction. That would've cost us 250 billion plus.
KIRK: But then people wanna write off their property taxes. I say no. Property taxes also in, like, Chicago, they're funding all the public sector teacher unions.
BIGGS: Exactly.
KIRK: The federal government should not give you any sort of alleviation for your — your local government should exist separate from the federal government budget.