Biden drops minimum wage hike from COVID-19 relief bill
Seizing on an advisory ruling Thursday by Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party have effectively abandoned any effort to raise the federal minimum wage.
{The Biden administration has seized on the parliamentarian’s ruling as an excuse to drop the minimum wage hike from the relief bill. On Friday, the White House announced that Harris would not exercise her power to overrule the parliamentarian, making clear that the abandonment of one of Biden’s major election campaign pledges is a matter of choice, not necessity.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders meekly accepted the White House climbdown, and his fellow so-called “progressive,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, announced that she would vote in favor of a relief bill stripped of the minimum wage increase.
The dropping of the $15 per hour minimum wage, which would still leave millions of workers in poverty, is the latest demonstration that the Biden administration will be one of reaction, not reform. The brutal, bipartisan ruling class offensive against the working class is indicated by the failure to raise the federal minimum wage, presently at the near-starvation level of $7.25 per hour, for 14 years.}
There you have it. Biden will not execute an advantage that a republican party would exploit in a heartbeat. $15 an hour was never a genuine concept in the past or now. Not even over the 4 year period it was written in the bill to be stretch out through. And just like with Trumpish republican legislation for 4 years, the lip service of Sanders and "progressives" falls to silence on the floors they walk. As though the floor tiles are made with our faces, they walk over us again.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Biden was never really interested in a $15 minimum wage, he was just lying to win the election. Why should anybody be surprised when a declared neoliberal does this? The fact that Bernie and AOC fall in line about this shows what frauds they are as well.
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