House Republicans succeeded Tuesday in advancing a bipartisan bill aimed at speeding up the federal permitting process, fending off a late challenge from hard-liners who wanted more power to kill offshore wind projects.

The House adopted the rule governing floor debate on several bills in a 215-209 vote. Among those bills that will now be considered on the chamber floor later this week is the so-called SPEED Act, which would overhaul the National Environmental Policy Act to remove regulatory roadblocks around building and completing energy projects.

But in order to secure the support of holdouts — led by GOP Reps. Andy Harris of Maryland and Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey — Republican leaders will have to alter a provision of the bipartisan legislation in the Rules Committee to ensure the Trump administration can continue to block offshore wind developments in these two states specifically.

This adjustment will be made as part of a separate rule paving the way for floor consideration of a health care package the Rules Committee is debating Tuesday afternoon and that the full House is expected to vote on Wednesday.

A floor vote on the SPEED Act, with the new change, is still on track for Thursday. Van Drew said it would include “really important language so we can go back and show these wind projects were rushed through and that the permitting wasn’t proper.”

Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman had included the original provision in the SPEED Act during the panel markup that would make it harder for presidents to cancel permits for any energy project. It was added to address concerns from Democrats that President Donald Trump was prepared to attack wind and solar projects — and assuage anxieties across all energy industries that their project approvals could get arbitrarily yanked depending on the party in power.

But Harris, Van Drew and others argued the provision would undermine Trump’s anti-offshore wind agenda, with which the two Republicans align.

Alongside Van Drew and Harris, the rule initially had GOP defections from Reps. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Chris Smith of New Jersey, Tim Burchett of Tennessee and Anna Paulina Luna of Florida. Leaders were able to flip all the “no” votes with the exceptions of Luna and Smith.

Other Republicans, including Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Kat Cammack of Florida, Andrew Clyde of Georgia and Andy Biggs of Arizona initially withheld their votes.

Most of these members were seen huddling in long conversations on the House floor with Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Majority Whip Tom Emmer.

A group of vulnerable House Republicans confronted Speaker Mike Johnson inside a closed-door meeting Wednesday about expiring Obamacare health insurance subsidies — and Johnson’s refusal to allow a vote on extending them.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) could be heard yelling outside the room where the centrist Republican Governance Group was meeting with Johnson in attendance, sounding off about GOP leaders’ opposition to a vote this week and mocking the assurance from some that Republicans could work on a party-line health care bill next year.

Lawler — who earlier in the day publicly accused GOP leaders of “political malpractice” — shot back that Republicans would “never” get a second reconciliation bill passed, despite the wishful thinking.

A stern Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) also pressed Johnson, according to three people in the room granted anonymity to describe the private meeting, asking why he and other leaders didn’t act sooner on the expiring subsides and health care generally.

The venting session was a remarkable climax to a monthslong debate within the GOP over how to address spiking insurance premiums for millions of Americans starting next year. In the view of many GOP moderates, the Obamacare subsidies are poised to lapse without any comprehensive plan over how to manage the inevitable political fallout ahead of the 2026 midterms.

The moderates are nonetheless making some last-minute moves to try to force the issue.

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) submitted an amendment Tuesday to a narrow GOP health package set to hit the House floor this week that would extend the expiring tax credits for two years with anti-fraud and income eligibility restrictions. Kiggans is also expected to file an amendment that would extend the subsidies while cracking down on fraud, and there are efforts to craft a third amendment that Johnson told reporters might be amendable to a wider group of Republicans.

As Johnson left the meeting with the moderates, he brushed off the intraparty barbs, saying they were “trying to solve the equation” for everyone and the group had some ideas worth considering.

House Democrats are championing an alternative — a straight three-year extension of the expiring subsidies — and are urging a handful of Republicans to join a discharge petition that would force a floor vote on it.

The GOP moderates have previously rejected the Democrats’ proposal, arguing the subsidies need new guardrails. But Lawler said Tuesday morning, “All options are on the table,” while Fitzpatrick said after the Tuesday meeting, “Ask me after today.”

An intraparty war over the House GOP’s flagship legislation to speed up the federal permitting process for energy projects is threatening to freeze the chamber’s floor before lawmakers leave for the holidays.

Reps. Andy Harris (R-Md.) and Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) said in interviews they plan to vote against the procedural measure setting up debate on the bipartisan SPEED Act and believe they have enough allied Republicans to kill it. The two lawmakers are among those arguing that language in the bill making it harder for presidents to cancel permits would undermine Donald Trump’s assault on offshore wind.

Despite the threat, GOP leaders are moving forward with the rule vote as they track a handful of Republican holdouts, according to four people granted anonymity to describe internal deliberations.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership circle privately acknowledges that success on the procedural vote will likely depend on attendance and a final push to convince Republicans to support the measure.

Republicans cannot afford even modest defections given their razor-thin majority, since the minority party rarely votes with the majority on rule votes.

“We’ll see — it always depends on attendance.” Natural Resources Committee Chair Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), the architect of the SPEED Act, said in a Tuesday interview. “I still have faith we can get somewhere because this is so important to the country in so many ways. I am not going to give up on it.”

Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Tuesday he’s “talked to those members” threatening to oppose the rule and told them “this is just the first step” to enact permitting reform as House and Senate leaders negotiate a broader package.

GOP leaders have already made some concessions to hard-liners, with the House Rules Committee agreeing Monday to allow votes on amendments they demanded — including one stripping the contentious offshore wind language from the bill.

Westerman said Tuesday he would plan to oppose that amendment if the rule is adopted and the bill moves to the floor.