The Senate on Friday voted in favor of a proposal sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders
Bernie SandersABC Appoints New Deputy Political Director, White House Correspondent Ron Johnson this weekend Forces Reading 628-Page Coronavirus Enlightenment Bill on the GOP Floor, Stopping Everything to Delay COVID-19 Package MORE (I-Vt.) To increase the federal minimum wage to $ 15.
Seven Democrats and one Independent who agrees with Democrats voted against it. The vote has yet to close, although it appears that each senator by 12:15 p.m. Cast their vote
Sens. Joe Manchin
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Coons’ voice was especially surprising because he is one of them President Biden
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The Senate voted 58 to 42 against an attempt to drop a procedural objection to the addition of the wage provision to the $ 1.9 billion COVID-19 relief bill.
The overwhelming voice casts doubt on whether Biden can raise the federal minimum wage to $ 15 at any point in his first term.
Until Friday’s vote, Manchin, an emerging 50-50 Senate power broker, was the only Senate Democrat to openly oppose a $ 15 nationwide standard. Manchin prefers to set it at $ 11 an hour and inflation it.
With eight members of the Democratic caucus voting against it on procedural grounds, it’s hard to see Biden getting his priority any time soon. Instead, he will likely have to compromise on raising the federal minimum wage, which has not been raised since 2009, to an amount below $ 15.
Biden reiterated his strong support for that during a conference with Senate Democrats last week and invited them to continue working on the pay rise.
“The president wants us to continue with COVID relief now, but he has made it clear that he supports a 100 percent increase in the minimum wage,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren
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Friday’s minimum wage vote came shortly after news broke that Democrats had forced the centers’ leaders to accept a significant reduction in weekly unemployment benefits.
Democrats announced Friday morning that they were close to an agreement to set the weekly unemployment benefit at $ 300 per week, instead of the $ 400 per week favored by Biden and included in the home-based relief agreement.
In a concession to Liberals, the emerging Unemployment Benefit Agreement would exempt up to $ 10,200 of benefits received in 2020 from tax and boost federal unemployment benefits until October 4 instead of August 29, the end date set by the House , expand.
Moderate Sens. Susan Collins
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Every Republican in the Senate voted the same way.
Some Democrats have expressed discomfort at Sanders’ proposal to increase the wages earned by restaurant workers, while many restaurants are struggling to stay open due to the pandemic.
The vote was largely symbolic after the Senate MP ruled last week that a provision raising the minimum wage to $ 20 per hour by 2025 violates the Byrd rule and cannot be included in the relief package the Democrats plan to implement. to pass an ordinary majority vote. special budget rules.
Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. We have some consolation in voting for a budget-of-order objection to the amendment rather than a straight-up vote. about the amendment itself – which leaves the Democrats who voted no some room to vote yes in the future.
Because the parliamentarian ruled that the wage increase violated the Byrd rule, it would have prevented the entire relief package from succeeding by a simple majority vote if it were added successfully.
But the procedural objection – which would require 60 votes to abstain – could only be sustained by Republican votes in the 50-50 Senate, indicating that the Democratic centers are sending a message.
Sanders vowed after the vote to continue to push the issue.
“If anyone thinks we’re giving up on this issue, they’re wrong. “If we have to vote on it time and time again, we and we will succeed,” he said. “The American people understand that we can not continue to make millions of people work for starvation wages.”
Asked if he was surprised by the number of Democrats who voted against his amendment, Sanders said, “No, we knew exactly what was happening.”
The Justice Democrats, a progressive advocacy group, blew the centrist Democrats off the ballot on Friday.
It’s unscrupulous that Sens. Tester, Manchin, Shaheen, Hassan, King, Cinema, Carper and Coons would say to millions of essential workers earning poverty wages that they are ‘heroes’ but that they have no minimum wage of $ 15 do not deserve, “he said. Waleed Shahid, a spokesman for the group.
“President Biden and Vice President Harris must now present their plan to carry out their promise of a minimum wage of $ 15 before the mid-term election cycle begins,” he said.
Updated at 1:31 pm