Trump killed a tax break popular in California. Now he agrees with Pelosi and wants to restore it

More often than not, the two major political parties directly oppose each other on major issues, which explains why those issues tend to linger, unresolved, for years or even decades.

Occasionally, however, there are issues that deviate from the partisan pattern, creating odd-bedfellows alliances. One of them is a 2017 overhaul of federal income taxes that, among other things, limited deductions of state and local taxes — known as SALT in political and media circles — to $10,000.

The...