Senator Rick Scott R-Fla. said Friday that Biden’s government and Democrats “do not care about jobs” and that the attempt to include a minimum wage of $ 15 in the latest coronavirus stimulus bill is just a refund to Liberal Democrats .
Scott said in an interview on Fox & Friends that more jobs would be killed and that unemployment rates would continue to rise during the pandemic by raising the minimum wage.
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He said the recent closure of the Keystone pipeline is further proof that the government cares less about jobs and more about politics.
The Senate MP on Thursday ruled that a federal minimum wage increase should not be included in the $ 1.9 billion COVID-19 relief package.
In a statement obtained by Fox News, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the decision by MP Elizabeth MacDonough “disappointing.” Pelosi, like many other Democrats, insisted that the wage increase be kept in the bill and insisted that it “remain on the floor tomorrow in the U.S. bailout plan.”
RICK SCOTT: “First, we must not change the minimum wage. We are in a pandemic. Look at our unemployment rate, look at the number of people who do not have a job and now we say we are going to kill more jobs by the minimum to increase wages.
You know what you get paid if you do not have a job, zero. I grew up in a poor family. I watched my dad’s car be taken back twice. If you lose your job, it is paid zero …
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When they talk about raising the minimum wage, they say we do not care about jobs, just like the Keystone pipeline, and they have killed 10,000 jobs there. The administration of Biden and the Democrats does not care about your work.
What I did when I was governor, we added 1.7 million jobs because we figured out how to grow businesses. They do the opposite. And then this package, it’s just a refund to Liberal Democrats. ‘
Fox News’ Edmund DeMarche contributed to this report.