House GOP leaders eye Democrats for help on $80 billion tax bill as Republicans defect

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EXCLUSIVE: Lawmakers' frustrations over Congress’ new tax bill are forcing House GOP leaders to rely on Democrat votes to get it over the line next week, sources said.

House leadership released details for the bipartisan agreement from House and Senate negotiators earlier this week, which includes tax deductions to bolster American businesses as well as a temporary extension of the Child Tax Credit (CTC).

Three sources told Fox News Digital that they understand the bill will get a vote on the House floor next week. Normally, legislation will advance through the Rules Committee first and then get a procedural "rule" vote on the House floor, almost always along party lines, before needing a simple majority to pass.

But the sources told Fox News Digital that Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Ways & Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., aim to push it straight to the House floor under "suspension of the rules," bypassing procedural steps in exchange for raising the threshold for passage to two-thirds.

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Republican hardliners weaponized the rule vote several times this session to bring down legislation by their own party in protest of House GOP leaders' decisions. Johnson holds just a thin majority of 219 Republicans to 213 Democrats, so raising the threshold for passage of the