New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has rejected the GOP’s latest attempt to counter the Democrats ‘$ 15 minimum federal wage, saying that any attempt to lower the hourly rate’ poverty is’.
“When members of Congress are fighting to put the minimum wage below a living wage, they are playing a role in creating and preserving poverty in the United States,” Ocasio Cortez said on Twitter on Tuesday.
“The $ 15 / hour proposal with a multi-year phase is already a deep compromise,” she added. “Poverty is a legal amount of $ 10 per hour.”
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The New York Democrat’s comments were in response to legislation passed Tuesday by Republican Senators Mitt Romney of Utah and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, which calls for a minimum wage of $ 10 per hour under the Higher Lages for American Workers Act.
The Republican proposal comes because Democrats will increase the minimum wage over the next four years to $ 15 per hour as part of President Biden’s U.S. bailout plan.
The Congressional Budget Office released a report earlier this month estimating that 1.4 million jobs are likely to be lost if the minimum wage is raised to $ 15 an hour – a prediction that Republicans and some Democratic lawmakers are concerned about.
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“Our legislation will raise the floor for workers without costing work,” Romney, R-Utah, said in a statement, adding, “We need to create opportunities for American workers and protect their jobs, while also being one of the eliminate key drivers for illegal elimination. ‘Immigration.’
The Republican leadership of the Senate has promised to push back on the coronavirus relief package it calls a ‘liberal wish list’ on Tuesday.
The package is expected to be voted in the House this Friday, but should it penetrate to the upper chamber, Senate Democrats may find that the minimum wage provision stops the bill.
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Democrat Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Cinema of Arizona have already said they do not agree with a minimum wage agenda contained in the nearly $ 2 billion relief package.
Megan Henney contributed to this report.