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“The administration’s measured response to Iran shoot-down of our U.S. military asset in international airspace shows the president is not looking for a war with Iran,” Mr. McCaul said, referring to the downing of an American drone.

Still, the amendment brought together the oddest of coalitions in Washington, with Concerned Veterans of America, a conservative advocacy group backed by Charles G. and David H. Koch, and VoteVets, the liberal political action committee, joining forces to support the measure. Other lobbying groups, normally foes — including FreedomWorks, the Tea Party advocacy group and Indivisible, a liberal anti-Trump group — jumped into the fray to urge members to support the bill.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Senator Tom Udall, Democrat of New Mexico, attempted to attach a similar measure to the Senate’s version of the defense policy bill last month, but the amendment failed 50 to 40.

If the larger defense bill clears the House on Friday, it must still be reconciled with a Senate version that is considerably less confrontational with the Trump administration. And it is likely Senate negotiators will try to strip out many of the House’s liberal-leaning provisions, including the Iran amendment and another measure passed by the House on Thursday that would cut off American support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.

The defense policy bill has traditionally been a bipartisan exercise, but House Republicans have come out strongly against this year’s version, declaring it a partisan document, a charge Democrats on the Armed Services Committee have contested. The House version of the bill allocates $733 billion in military spending while the Senate version allocates $750 billion, meeting the figure the White House requested.