Crowds at town halls are getting bigger as more people worry about the nation's deficit, House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanBiden's debate game plan? Keep cool and win Trump, Biden have one debate goal: Don't lose RNC chair on election: We are on track to win the White House MORE (R-Wis.) said Sunday, but the angry audience members are fueled by "misinformation."

"The crowds are really getting bigger, and people are getting much more anxious about where the country's headed," Ryan said in an interview with Christiane Amanpour on ABC's "This Week."

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Ryan, who is behind House Republicans' budget plan that would drastically reduce federal spending to cut the federal deficit, said that town halls in his district last week have gotten more crowded as more people wonder what is the right course to take in terms of reducing the federal deficit.

"There are TV, radio and phone calls that are running, trying to scare seniors. You know, the Democratic National Committee is running phone calls to seniors in my district, TV ads, saying we're hurting current seniors when, in fact, that's not the case," Ryan said.

Democrats have recently been urging Americans to attend town-halls of House Republicans who voted for Ryan's plan and press them on what Ryan's plan would do to Medicare.

Ryan's plan would replace Medicare with subsidies for insurance companies for Americans under 55. Democrats charge that the plan would effectively eliminate Medicare.

"Both parties do this to each other," Ryan said. "And my whole point about that is, that's why we have this political paralysis."

On Sunday Ryan defended his plan. When asked if he was worried that Ryan's plan could cost Republicans in the 2012 elections Ryan said he doesn't worry about polling.

"I hear this all the time from the political people, from the pundits and the pollsters that this could be -- this could hurt us politically," Ryan said. "I don't care about that. What I care about is fixing this country and getting this debt situation under control."