The Republican Party has tapped Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio to deliver the party’s weekly address today to provide a counterpoint to President Obama’s weekly address, discussing the 2016 budget and spending levels that Portman called “staggering.”

President Obama is advocating an end to austerity measures with the economy showing signs of finally rebounding after years in recession from the crash the took place right around the time he took office in 2008. As a result, he proposed a $4 trillion budget earlier this week that would boost tax credits to programs that he says will help the middle class and help achieve his vision of making community college available to all, according to a Cleveland.com report.

Obama also wants to tax the richest Americans to a much greater extent, particularly on profits made in the stock market, and he wants to tax earnings that are kept overseas in order to avoid taxes.

His proposal will be met with scorn by Portman, a freshman senator who is likely to call the new plan unacceptable for the new Republican majority in the Senate, as well as the expanded majority in the House.

Portman says the debt problem still remains a massive one for the country, and it “hangs over the country like a wet blanket,” according to the report.

The pre-recorded messages will be distributed to media across the country, where some radio stations will play both.

Audio from Portman’s address is already available, and states that unlike ordinary Americans who must sit down to make tough choices on their budgets, Obama has decided not to make tough choices in the national budget. He noted that the government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars more than it takes in in revenue in every year of Obama’s presidency, which Portman said has added $7.5 trillion to the national debt.