HMM: GOP hard-liners threatening late revolt over megabill.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing a last-minute rebellion from conservatives on Republicans’ megabill, with a deal on a key tax deduction with blue-state Republicans and a lack of progress on settling other key provisions frustrating hard-liners.

“I think actually we’re further away from a deal because that SALT cap increase, I think, upset a lot of conservatives,” Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), the House Freedom Caucus chair, said in an interview on Newsmax on Wednesday morning, referring to the state-and-local-tax deduction. “The conservatives are pushing for some balancing spending reductions.”

Johnson signaled Tuesday he wanted to call a vote on the bill as soon as Wednesday evening. A person with direct knowledge of the talks who was granted anonymity to describe them candidly said “there is currently a zero percent chance this thing moves today,” saying leaders “walked away from a deal last night and even rolled back progress made over the weekend.”

In a brief interview Wednesday morning, Johnson said “there is a chance for a vote today” when asked about the comments by Harris and other conservatives. He said he continues to talk with the conservative holdouts.

Johnson and a group of blue-state Republicans reached a critical but tentative deal Tuesday night to boost the cap on the state-and-local-tax deduction to $40,000 in the GOP domestic-policy bill that is at the center of President Donald Trump’s agenda on taxes, energy and the border. Conservatives have strongly opposed further increasing the SALT cap.

Trump — and congressional Republicans — need a win on Capitol Hill more than any single policy item.