No, federal taxes were not raised,
OF course they were. The capping of the deduction raised the amount that many Republicans in California had to pay in federal taxes. This was done to bring in more money to pay for other tax cuts - because the GOP Congress chose to pay for those other cuts by raising revenue on high income homeowners, instead of by cutting spending.
He should have reduced it to ZERO. The rest of the nation should not have to subsidize Californians, NY’ers, etc...don’t like it? Relocate. My family left our home in Laguna Nigel and moved to the Tampa Bay area. We’d had enough of the abject lunacy of our home state. Best decision we ever made.
Actually what was happening with the federal tax deduction what is that red states were subsidizing blue states. Now we are done doing that. If you don’t like not being able to federally deduct your large state taxes, then vote smarter in your state. Tennessee has a balanced budget and low taxes all around. There’s lots of examples to follow.