Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., reportedly will vote no on the Senate’s updated budget bill due to a proposed increase in the debt limit.

“We roll around to 2026 elections, what are they going to say, Oh Democrats, you know, they’re for borrow and spend. But now the Republicans will have joined the Democrats in being for borrow and spend,” Paul told reporters on Tuesday. “The bill is inadequate in the sense that it is not going to turn the tide on the deficit.”

Paul told NBC’s Kristen Welker on Sunday that he was considering support for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” if changes were made to the planned $5 trillion debt ceiling hike. “Congress is awful with money, and so you should give them a more restricted credit line, not an expansive one,” he said on “Meet the Press.”

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