WASHINGTON — Long Island’s two House Republicans — Reps. Andrew Garbarino and Nick LaLota — faced calls Tuesday from state Democrats to vote against the tax-and-spend megabill as the U.S. House prepares to take up a final vote.

Garbarino (R-Bayport) and LaLota (R-Amityville) told Newsday they were each reviewing changes made by Senate Republicans to the more than 800-page bill that narrowly passed the U.S. Senate Tuesday. Both stopped short of declaring their vote for the bill that President Donald Trump has demanded the Republican-controlled Congress pass by July 4.

LaLota has previously said he would vote against any version of the bill that did not include a deal to increase the state and local tax deduction cap to $40,000 for households earning $500,000 or less, as passed by the House in May.

The version passed by the Senate on Tuesday calls for increasing the SALT cap from $10,000 to $40,000 but, unlike the initial House version, places a five-year deadline on the increased cap, which would revert back to $10,000 after 2029.

"My team and I are thoroughly reviewing all 887 pages of the Senate bill to assess its impact on Long Island and the nation," LaLota said in a statement to Newsday.

Garbarino, co-chairman of the House SALT Caucus, who alongside LaLota and other blue-state Republicans helped broker the new proposed SALT cap in May, said in a statement to Newsday: "We are still in the process of reviewing the changes that have come out of the Senate."

SALT has been one of the key sticking points of the bill — blue-state Republicans have wielded their numbers to threaten blockage of any bill that did not increase the cap, while fiscal conservatives who view the deduction as a blue-state carve-out have decried increasing the $10,000 cap that was first implemented in 2017 under a tax code overhaul pushed by Trump.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, in a news conference held after Tuesday’s Senate vote, called on New York House Republicans to vote against the bill, saying "this bill clobbers New York. If they vote for it, they’re betraying New York."

"New York has seven million-plus people on Medicaid, they’re going to get hurt," Schumer said of the proposed changes to safety net programs. "New York has hundreds of thousands of people on SNAP [food assistance], they’re going to get hurt. New York has tens of thousands of clean energy jobs, many of them will be gone."

Freshman Rep. Laura Gillen (D-Rockville Centre), in a statement to Newsday, said she was concerned the bill will cut "food assistance and leave children and seniors to go hungry," and she took aim at Republicans for not outright eliminating the SALT deduction cap.

"My colleagues on the other side of the aisle have a chance to stand up for Long Island by rejecting the Senate’s half-measures on SALT and harsh cuts to lifesaving programs that their constituents count on," Gillen said.

Asked about Schumer and Gillen’s statements, LaLota in a statement said Schumer was unsuccessful in raising the SALT cap when Democrats were in control of both chambers of Congress and the White House from 2021 to 2022.

Schumer spokesman Angelo Roefaro, when asked about LaLota’s statement, told Newsday Schumer "made it clear: let the SALT cap — which was forced on Long Island by Trump — totally expire and die, as it was heading to do" at the end of the year.

Schumer has argued New York House Republicans should have let the 2017 cap expire rather than negotiate a new cap, but they have argued red-state Republicans would have simply extended the $10,000 cap with no input from New York lawmakers.

Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), who sponsored three bills to repeal or increase the deduction from 2019 through 2021 that passed the House but ultimately died in the Senate, said he planned to vote against the current version of the bill.

"This bill unnecessarily gives tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans, while cutting health insurance and food benefits to the most needy, all while creating the biggest deficit in U.S. history," Suozzi said in a text message.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who voted against the bill Tuesday, called it in a statement a "big, beautiful betrayal of the American people."