Welp.
President Joe Biden said in an interview with CBS’ Norah O’Donnell that he’s going to try to get a $15 per hour minimum wage into the Covid-relief bill but he doesn’t think “it’s going to survive”:
Biden tells CBS he thinks he may have to drop $15 minimum wage hike because it will violate Senate rules on reconciliation. “I don't think it's going to survive.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 5, 2021
Well, duh:
I called this from the moment he proposed it.
— Robert A George (@RobGeorge) February 6, 2021
Too bad they didn’t tell Dem voters this:
Like, we all knew this was meant to be a signal to labor and other allies that they were a big priority, but we also knew it would almost inevitably fall away from this package absent some unforeseen political will. They just forgot to tell the voters that.
— Liam Donovan (@LPDonovan) February 6, 2021
The president wants a stand-alone bill:
Pres. Biden tells CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell “his guess is” the $15 federal minimum wage proposal will not be included in a final COVID-relief bill:
“I do think that we should have a minimum wage stand by itself, and work your way up to the $15.”
— Jennifer Franco (@jennfranconews) February 6, 2021
Transcript:
Some news here — Biden tells @NorahODonnell his “guess” is that the $15 minimum wage proposal “will not be in” the final American Rescue Plan. “I don’t think it’s going to survive.” pic.twitter.com/laOAfBobNa
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) February 5, 2021
Bernie Sander, however, still thinks it can be done during reconciliation:
The budget resolution the Senate passed today puts us on a path to finally raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. It is a moral imperative in the richest country in the world that no one is forced to live on a starvation wage, and the American Rescue Plan will get it done.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 5, 2021
Or maybe President Biden will pull a rabbit out of his hat?
This is also a Bidenism. He’ll set the expectation that he may be unable to do something and then folks will find a way to make it happen. https://t.co/C23v05wLzM
— melissa “cancel student debt” byrne (@mcbyrne) February 6, 2021
Good luck with that:
— kaitlin, holy RINO batman (@thefactualprep) February 5, 2021
Other Dems are pushing for an end of the filibuster over it, which won’t happen either:
Been saying this for a bit now, but reconciliation is a stopgap. Ultimately, If Democrats want to pass the popular policies Biden campaigned on – and which will boost both him and Congressional Dems in the 2022 midterms – they have to reform or eliminate the Jim Crow filibuster. https://t.co/OglPg8Kujt
— Adam Jentleson ? (@AJentleson) February 6, 2021
This isn’t true. In Florida, a very red state, voters just passed a phased-in $15 minimum wage that indexes to inflation after 2026:
https://twitter.com/ttagaris/status/1357840098574950400
What a concept! Letting voters at the state level decide? It’s madness.
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