Senator Elizabeth MacDonough’s legal assessor ruled that the plan does not complicate with the rules of the presuppositions.
“We are deeply disappointed with this decision”, responded in a statement the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, on the compromise to not “renounce the lucha to lower the minimum wage.
The President of the Chamber of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, dijo que la disposition will be built on the project of the Cámara Baja who is voting for these fours. This means that the Chamber of Representatives will approve its project, the Senate tends to eliminate the disposition of the minimum wage and, finally, the Chamber of Deputies will be able to vote on this project at the end of the trial.
For its part, Biden dijo que pidió al Congreso que approve “rápidamente” su plan from the estimate of the receipts of the increase in the minimum wage.
“President Biden was disappointed with this result,” said Jen Psaki, spokesman for Casa Blanca.
The negative sentiment does not mean that the idea of increasing the minimum wage has been killed. Los verdedig podrían tratar de approve a project of them for separation, but presumably necesitarían the support of the republicans.
The democrats and progressive aspirants include the minimum wage increase in the legislation to help amortize the economic wave of the coronavirus pandemic and better compensate for low-wage workers that he passed months in the first line of the health crisis as essential workers.
The initial initiative will gradually increase the minimum federal salary to $ 15 over five years, muy por encima de los $ 7.25 en vigor desde 2009.
The Democrats are in the process of boosting the covid-19 alive project by the process of ” presupposition reconciliation“that the approval will be approved in the Senate using a simple mayor, for which the Republican support is not necessary.
But there are rules that limit what can be included using this process, and it is MacDonough’s job to determine what is allowed.
