Republicans on Capitol Hill rolled the dice earlier this month when they pushed off decisions on a host of details for their package full of President Trump’s legislative priorities.

Now, lawmakers must face the music.

With the House aiming to pass the “one big, beautiful bill” by the end of May, and the Senate looking to follow suit quickly after, Republicans are staring down a key four-week stretch as the party works through a series of hot-button issues, headlined by spending cuts.

“It's going be busy,” said Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), a top ally of Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.). But he added that the intensity can be kept in check “as long as we're communicating with both sides and there's an open line of communication and we don't start isolating ourselves.”

Mullin predicted there would be a few items that are “going to make the tension,” including the debate over how to score the cost of extending Trump’s tax cuts. But he said both chambers would work with the White House “and it's just going to be a busy time trying to deliver some of the president's priorities to the American people.”

After a last-minute scramble, both chambers last month adopted a blueprint laying out the parameters for the final bill. But the blueprint contained differing instructions for House and Senate committees on a host of issues, and it left debates between conservatives and moderates over spending cuts and taxes unresolved.

Republicans must now reconcile those differences into a single bill that, in a narrow majority, passes muster with almost every single member of the conference.

House Republicans are hitting the ground running, with committees scheduled to mark up their........

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