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default if they don't get every last cut and every last unrelated, hard-right policy that they want." "By passing the Default on America Act, he's handed the keys over to the House Freedom Caucus, who are more than happy to let the U.S.

"Rather than listen to reason, Speaker McCarthy has caved to extremists," Schumer told reporters Tuesday. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Senate Democrats plan to hold hearings this week on the negative impacts of McCarthy's so-called Limit, Save, Grow Act, which Democrats renamed the "Default on America Act." Democrats have called the measure "dead on arrival" in the Senate. Democrats are united in opposition to McCarthy's bill that would undo some of their landmark accomplishments passed during the last Congress and have described the bill as a "hard-right ransom note" that pushes the country closer to default. Still, the measure has no future in the Senate and comes as Congress stares down a potential default that could occur as early as June 1, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Here are key takeaways from an hour long Q&A More: Ron Johnson on abortion, climate change and Robert F. "I give House conservatives the lion share of the credit of bringing that all together," Johnson said of the bill, claiming the group made "an awful lot of compromises" to force the bill through the House. Many of the faction's measures made it into the House-passed bill - highlighting the group's influence in a divided government in which House Republicans have a slim majority. Johnson in the months before the House last week passed the measure joined meetings hosted by Scott with members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus to discuss sweeping spending rollbacks in exchange for raising the country's borrowing cap. "And it’s almost the bare minimum of what we should expect if we’re going to increase the debt ceiling and further mortgage our kids’ future." "What the House conservatives did, what the House passed, is an eminently reasonable package," Johnson told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in the U.S. They planned to hold a press conference Wednesday.

Rick Scott of Florida, Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, will urge their Senate Republican colleagues to present a "united front" of support for Speaker Kevin McCarthy's debt limit measure, the Oshkosh Republican's office said. Johnson and a number of his allies, including GOP U.S. Ron Johnson on Tuesday called a House Republican bill to cut spending and raise the country's debt ceiling "eminently reasonable" as he and other Senate conservatives planned to push their conference to get behind the measure that has little future in their chamber. Watch Video: Ron Johnson argues with journalist, defends 'vaccine injuries' stance