It was never even close. Despite suspending the rules and therefore requiring two-thirds support for passage, the Republican-led House easily passed a bipartisan tax bill extending much of the Trump tax cuts despite concern from conservatives that the rushed bill includes handouts to illegal aliens.

The 357-70 vote means the bill is headed for the Senate, then likely President Joe Biden’s desk.

By Bradley Jaye | Breitbart News

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) brought the bill — unveiled in its final form just days before the vote — to the floor Wednesday night only hours after announcing definitively that the House would vote on the bill, giving lawmakers little time to review the bill after returning to Washington Monday night.

By speeding the bill through, Republican leadership robbed the conservative opposition of time to mobilize. Ultimately, the majority of the bill’s provisions enjoyed broad Republican support, and 169 Republicans voted for passage.

But conservatives directed their ire to an expansion of the Child Tax Credit without language requiring the parent to have a Social Security number. They argued that, with migrant encounters at the border at record highs under President Joe Biden, the expansion would serve as an additional, powerful migration pull without additional protections included.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) called the bill, “a huge expansion of welfare to illegal foreign nationals” that “hollows out the working class in favor of tax breaks for corporations that are selling out America.” ##