As House Republican leaders charted the course to pass the biggest legislation of President Trump’s second term through the special reconciliation process, Brett Horton, chief of staff to House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), stood out: He’d done it before.

“At some point I think I looked around the room in our daily leadership meeting and realized that Steve and I are the only two people in the room who are around in that particular setting making those decisions, making those suggestions to the Speaker, from the last reconciliation,” Horton said. “Steve and I, we went through it........

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