Senate Democrats are preparing to swiftly push for the help of the COVID-19 package announced by President Joe Biden, worth $ 1.9 trillion, with the approval of Republicans.
Dicho project includes, among other media, funds for the distribution of vacancies, a check for 1,400 dollars and an increase in the minimum federal salary of 15 dollars per hour.
The leader of the Senate in the Senate, Democrat Chuck Schumer, urged senators who are preparing to vote as soon as possible next week a project of the presidency that will show the basics for a rapid approval of the Biden aid plan.
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“El work should advance, preferably with our Republican colleagues, pero (if you are) without them if it is necessary“, Schumer said it was a private meeting of Democratic senators.
“Time is of the essence to address this crisis. We are considering all options over the month,” he said.
The Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, accepts this move to reach an agreement with the Democrats to establish rules of organization in Congress that will allow him to block legislative work. The decision is a lie of five hundred days by the Republican Party that would push the Biden’s first media.
Asimismo, the Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, President of the Presbytery Commission, Dijo que el Martes que presenta una ley para to increase the average wage by a minimum wage of 15 dollars for the time being here five years.
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The salary increase is a Democratic priority from time to time, which will double the current salary of $ 7.25 for the last time that the party has been in control of Congress, during the Barack Obama administration. Sus verdedig afirman que dicho aumento sacaría de la pobreza a millions of workers at full time.
“In the richest country in the history of the world, there are 40 hours a week,” no deberías live in poverty“Dijo Sander.” The minimum wage must be a dignified wage, which allows the people to live with dignity. It is unacceptable that the Congress did not approve a minimum wage increase since 2007, 14 years ago, “he said.
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“If Republicans have not been able to get on board, that’s fine. No vamos an esperaar. We are going to advance quickly and aggressively, “he said.
This announcement will be taken while the Casa Blanca is being reunited privately with Republican and Democratic legislators with the hope of building a bipartisan agreement. The group was formed by more than 50 congressmen called ‘Problem Solvers Caucus’ (Caucus of problem solvers), held a ‘productive meeting and a constructive conversation’, said a communiqué by Democrat Josh Gottheimer and Republican Tom Reed the group.
Senior party senators are jealous of those who want the $ 1,400 direct checks to be sent to those who need it more. También also has a review of the funds that are available in the previously approved aid packages (in April and December of 2020).
Biden has signed an executive order this past week in support of the Department of Labor, which is working to recommend a minimum wage of $ 15 to federal workers. The leaders of the Republican Party criticize the media, ensuring that it deals with labor costs, and affirms that it is devastating for working families.
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The legislation to increase the minimum wage is supported by the opposition of the Republicans and will be difficult to approve in the Senate, which is divided into equal parts, which requires the support of the 50 Democrats and 10 Republicans to become a “filibuster, (filibuster, and English). It is a mechanism of the Congress that establishes that some of the main debating standards are approved by a majority of at least 60 senators, which allows the minority party to block them.
According to data from the Office of the President of the Congress of 2019, the increase of the minimum federal salary, increase in 2025 the increments of 17 million workers that will increase another month, increase possibly the salaries of one 10 million more, and increase to one 1.3 million people for the umbrella of poverty. But, according to the analysis, another 1.3 million workers are employed.
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