A handful of House Republicans extracted concessions from House GOP leaders on tariff policy after rebelling on a procedural vote Tuesday.

GOP leaders agreed to shave two months off the length of a prohibition on votes that could end President Trump’s tariffs, and agreed to create an informal tariff working group, according to two members who negotiated the deal.

That deal was stuck in a dramatic scene on the House floor as six GOP members voted against a procedural rule. Rules tee up the terms for considering major legislation and are traditionally uniformly opposed by the minority and approved by the majority, but Republican factions have increasingly derailed them in order to exert leverage in recent years.

On Tuesday, GOP Reps. Don Bacon (Neb.) Jay Obernolte (Calif.), Kevin Kiley (Calif.), Tom McClintock (Calif.) Thomas Massie (Ky.), and Victoria Spartz (Ind.) joined with all Democrats in initially voting against the rule. In the razor-slim GOP majority, that would have caused the vote to fail and scrambled GOP leaders' plans for the week.

Tuesday's rule teed up a slate of bills relating to sentencing and crime policies in the District of Columbia. But tacked onto the measure was a........

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