White House Chief of the White House Ron Klain
Ron KlainCollins: Biden’s .9T coronavirus package won’t get Senate GOP votes Capito asks White House to allow toxic chemicals to continue to resign White House press office after threatening Politico reporter MORE said the government will not try to dominate the Senate MP if it decides that an increase in the minimum wage of a coronavirus relief package should be removed.
“It simply came to our notice then. We are going to follow the rules of the Senate and work within the system to make this bill pass, ‘Klain said on MSBNC on Wednesday.
The administration is pushing its $ 1.9 billion stimulus package, which includes a provision to raise the federal minimum wage to $ 15 per hour by 2025. However, Democrats are anxiously awaiting the Senate MP’s ruling on whether the minimum wage provision can remain in the bill. .
Democrats are trying to approve the package through a process known as budget reconciliation, which will pass the legislation by a simple majority and avoid the legislative filibuster needing 60 votes.
However, it remains to be seen whether the Senate MP would decide that raising the Byrd rule, which requires a piece of legislation to have an effect on the federal budget, and that it is not ‘merely’ coincidental ‘ , in order to qualify to pass through reconciliation.
As president of the Senate, Vice President Harris could overthrow the parliamentarian if she decided that the provision for minimum wage should be scrapped. However, Biden, who has served in the Senate for 36 years, is a staunch institutionalist who is reluctant to change the rules of the upper chamber.
The minimum wage provision has torn open divisions among centrist and progressive legislators.
Sen. Bernie Sanders
Bernie SandersKlain says Harris will not dominate MP on minimum wage increase Romney-Cotton, a Cancun cab and the minimum wage debate on money, dominate on minimum wage increase Romney-Cotton, meetings of Teeth in negative sign | Biden signs order of supply chain after ‘positive’ meeting with lawmakers MORE (I-Vt.), The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said he was confident that the increase in the minimum wage would be included, and in the bill, the senators insisted on coming to the measure. But centralists like Sens. Joe Manchin
Joseph (Joe) ManchinKlain on Manchin’s objection to Neera Tanden: He does not answer us in the White House. Klain says Harris would not dominate MP over minimum wage increase over money: Senate panels postpone Teeth meetings in a negative sign | Biden signs order of supply chain after ‘positive’ meeting with lawmakers MORE (DW.Va.) and Kyrsten Cinema (D-Ariz.) Deterred the increase, raising the prospect that the minimum wage provision in the 50-50 Senate could be killed, even if the MP would alleviate it.