“This is what you get when you have hapless, feckless leadership,” Bannon said on Wednesday’s episode of his podcast, titled “McConnell’s Betrayal of America Will Create Debt Slaves.” Bannon told his listeners, “I want you to call his office — call his office in Kentucky — and I want you to let him know what you think.”

Joining Bannon on the podcast, Boris Epshteyn, a former Trump aide who is currently advising Missouri Senate candidate Eric Greitens, also tore into McConnell, describing his actions as “pathetic.”

“This makes me think: Does Mitch McConnell care more about opposing the Democrats or opposing the MAGA movement, opposing the MAGA posse, opposing Donald J. Trump?” Epshteyn said. “Because that’s what this is all about.”…

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said that he also would not vote to raise the debt limit but would not object if a deal were reached to raise it by unanimous consent. He called the move “a punt, there’s no doubt about it,” since the issue will now arise again in two months.

But Johnson also gently pushed back against Trump’s criticism of McConnell, saying that the former president is not the one who is confronting tough decisions about how to handle the government’s potential default.

“He’s not here right now,” Johnson said of Trump. “So we’re having to deal with this, okay?”