President Biden doesn’t think it’ll make it….
Senator Sanders isn’t gonna stop trying….
Bernie Sanders is “confident” lawmakers would be able to raise the minimum wage to $15 via the reconciliation process, the Vermont senator said Saturday.
With little Republican support for President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief package, Democrats have pushed to include a $15 minimum wage via reconciliation, a move that could help avoid a GOP filibuster but would have to be approved by the Senate parliamentarian.
“Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour is not incidental to the federal budget and is permissible under the rules of reconciliation,” Sanders said in a statement. “The CBO has found that the $15 minimum wage has a much greater impact on the federal budget than opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling and repealing the individual mandate penalties — two provisions that the parliamentarian advised did not violate the Byrd Rule when Republicans controlled the Senate.“
“I’m confident that the parliamentarian will advise next week that we can raise the minimum wage through the reconciliation process.”…
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“If Republicans could use reconciliation to try to take health care away from 32 million Americans by repealing the ACA, please don’t tell me we can’t use the same rules to provide a raise to 32 million workers by increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour,” Sanders said. “No more excuses.”…
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AOC ,the favorite whipping post of the Right Wing Trump Republican Party ,as well,as one conducting a “Civil War” in the Democratic Party in JamesWorld( where anyone uttering a disagreeing comment with the prevailing opinion in either party is in a “Civil War.”) has raised 4 million dollars for Texas relief.
No word on how much Republican Party LeaderTrump has raised or contributed.Now he could use some of that money he extorted from assorted “freedom loving” cultists given to him to try to steal an election .Somehow I doubt such will happen.
You would think that The Leader would try to assist the literal bastion of Trump Republicanism in Texas ,where MAGA red hat wearing bootlicking has been elevated to an art form (low art I should say) .
Alas, one would be wrong.
Trump likely figures that he has the likes of Cruz,Cornyn ,Abbot ,et al ,in his hip pocket.Why throw any bucks to help those good folks down Texas way?Hes probably right.
After all gotta stop them damn Socialists like AOC !
Meanwhile, many of those Trump voters in the Lone Star state holler,”Wheres my damn FEMA check .Sure as Hell don’t want the damn guvmint messing with that!”
Trump’s gonna need ‘his’ money for lawyer’s in NYC and Georgia….
Given the Cult’s mind-set, they would probably insist that every suffering but patriotic Texas turn down that filthy ungodly socialist antifa money from New York City !!!.
My thoughts exactly DSD!…
I guess they REALLY can NOT go it alone, eh?
…She called for the implementation of “short and long-term policy decisions so that this sort of devastation — preventable devastation — never happens again,” and also addressed a small crowd on hand in Spanish.
But her efforts were criticized by the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, who panned her support for renewable energy and said she was engaged in a publicity stunt during her appearance in Houston.
“What Texans found out this week is that wind energy, and solar, are not reliable, dependable, and available energy resources. Therefore, ma’am, you’re not going to buy off Texans for your green new deal energy pipe dream for $2M.,” Allen West said in a tweet Friday….
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/02/20/nation/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-weather-disaster-texas-pushes-many-brink/
(via Bloomberg)
Bernie is scrambling against Biden’s view on the $15hr min wage support….
Democrats are scrambling to piece together a backup plan that could save their minimum wage hike from getting tossed out of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package and win over moderates wary of the proposal.
The budget tool that Democrats are using to steer Biden’s plan through Congress without GOP support, known as reconciliation, is laden with thorny restrictions waiting to ensnare the $15 minimum wage boost they’ve added to the next tranche of coronavirus relief. The wage increase is also running into strong headwinds from two influential Senate Democratic centrists, Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), who are both resistant to enacting the sweeping policy change through the powerful budget process….
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Quote of the Day
“I was one of the worst waiters in the history of the country but I was a waiter.”
— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), quoted by the Washington Post, on raising the tipped minimum wage.