After the Senate Parliamentarian advises that the wage increase provision was not allowed in the budget reconciliation process, Democrats now need to find another way to bypass the filibuster.
The mere fact that Republicans are saying no to this is asinine. Could they live off this type of wage? I am really disappointed with my country at the moment.
As someone who strongly supports both things (Covid relief and the hike in the minimum wage (which in my mind should be higher than to just $15/hour)), I hate to say it but I think that they have to break them into separate pieces of legislation. Getting Covid relief out there, which has broad support across the country, would be a big PR win for the Democrats and could (hopefully) lead to more pressure on the Republicans to agree to a hike in the minimum wage.
Perhaps your portrait for a future increase to a $15 wage base is too zoomed in binary options: this iteration or a simple standalone later? The zoomed out view offers, if history/memory serves me, a cowardly but more fail safe option. When the federal minimum wage was last raised to $7.25 in 2007 (though only over time did it reach this in ‘09), it passed, tucked in a “must do” defense authorization bill. I predict something similar would follow today — more aligned with Sinema/Manchin tortured thinking.
The mere fact that Republicans are saying no to this is asinine. Could they live off this type of wage? I am really disappointed with my country at the moment.
As someone who strongly supports both things (Covid relief and the hike in the minimum wage (which in my mind should be higher than to just $15/hour)), I hate to say it but I think that they have to break them into separate pieces of legislation. Getting Covid relief out there, which has broad support across the country, would be a big PR win for the Democrats and could (hopefully) lead to more pressure on the Republicans to agree to a hike in the minimum wage.
That's my naive theory, anyway...............
We have to get COVID relief done NOW. The fight for 15 will continue. My hope is that Manchin and Sinema won’t tank the relief bill.
Perhaps your portrait for a future increase to a $15 wage base is too zoomed in binary options: this iteration or a simple standalone later? The zoomed out view offers, if history/memory serves me, a cowardly but more fail safe option. When the federal minimum wage was last raised to $7.25 in 2007 (though only over time did it reach this in ‘09), it passed, tucked in a “must do” defense authorization bill. I predict something similar would follow today — more aligned with Sinema/Manchin tortured thinking.