Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday he supported President Donald Trump's tax cuts in 2017 and still supports making them permanent, but he thinks spending cuts currently in his "big beautiful bill" are "wimpy and anemic" and he will not vote for a Senate version of the bill that could raise the nation's debt by as much as $5 trillion.

"I still would support the bill, even with wimpy and anemic cuts, if they weren't going to explode the debt," the Kentucky Republican said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday." "The problem is the math doesn't add up. They're going to explode the debt. The House's is $4 trillion. The Senate's actually been talking about exploding the debt by $5 trillion."

He added that the deficit is a "threat to the country."