Their comments were an unusually public display of ambiguity towards a piece of legislation that the GOP caucus voted to advance.

The GOP senator who accused Donald Trump of being “very petty” after learning he was not invited to the White House picnic is “of course” welcome at the event, the president said Thursday. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is holding out on Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” over concerns the legislation increases the country’s debt.

Daniel Bunn, the president and CEO of the nonprofit Tax Foundation, said that “there’s no point in questioning” whether the CBO was “right or not” since it did not exist, adding that “Laffer Curve logic should shape how you think about tariffs and other tax hikes.”