Several key Republican lawmakers share the concern about the impact the budget bill will have on the national debt.

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson is among them, and I spoke with him earlier today.

Senator Johnson, welcome back to the News Hour. Thanks for having me on.

You have called this bill immoral. You've said it's grotesque. Strong language, what specifically do you find so

offensive about it? No, that's not how I refer to the bill. I've referred to the fact that we are

mortgaging our children's future as immoral and grotesque, and the level of debt that we've

accumulated and that we continue to accumulate. So that is immoral.

What we are doing to our children, how we are robbing them of, you know, the opportunities

and diminishing their prospects, that's truly immoral.

And we need to recognize that fact.

We need to stop it.

Well, the Congressional Budget Office, as you well know, now estimates this bill would add

$2.4 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.

The White House says that number is misleading, and they say that you have your facts wrong.

Here's what the press secretary said earlier this week.

But Republicans, like Ron Johnson and Rand Paul disagree.

They are saying that it will add to the deficit.

That is their concern.

Is the White House's position that those two Republican senators are, quote, blatantly wrong?

It is.

Those senators, it's not news that they disagree with this president on policy.

And the president has vocally called them out for it and for they're not having their

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