The week
Senate votes on $ 15 minimum wage during vote-a-rama. Bernie Sanders looks intact.
The Senate struggled through a long series of votes late Thursday and early Friday, while Democrats voted most of the theoretically unlimited series of amendments to their budget resolution. Endurance, known as the ‘vote-a-rama’, is a long-respected tradition of reconciliation – the budgetary instrument that Democrats are likely to use to [President] Biden’s $ 1.9 billion coronavirus relief plan without any GOP support, “explains Politico. Most of the votes a-rama involve” Republicans forcing Democrats to force boring and awkward votes on a variety of issues, as Democrats Maxico reports, but some amendments have been met with dual support. For example, the senators approved an amendment by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) to “the amendment”. banning raising the federal minimum wage during a global pandemic. “Raising the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour is one of the heaviest lifts in Biden’s proposal.” A federal minimum wage of $ 15 would be devastating for us smallest businesses that have been hit the hardest, at a time when they can least afford it, “Ernst argued. The biggest proponent of the measure, chairman of the budget committee, Bernie Sanders (IV), is raising the vote, noting that his plan to increase the minimum wage over five years starts after the pandemic. “We need to address a crisis of starvation in Iowa and in the United States,” he said, adding that he “will do everything I can” to ensure that the measure is included in this reconciliation bill. ” The increase in the minimum wage can be stimulated by other factors: nerve Joe Manchin (DW.Va.) is opposed to it, and it can go wrong with the so-called Byrd rule restrictions that can be included in reconciliation bills. House President Nancy Pelosi ( D-California) said if it is not achieved in this bill, the Democrats will include it in other legislation.The Senate also approved amendments to keep the U.S. Israeli embassy in Jerusalem, preventing undocumented immigrants from direct stimulation- get checks, and limit Biden’s $ 1,400 checks to ‘higher-income taxpayers.’ The proposal, by Manchin and Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), did not specify any revenue thresholds, and Biden’s proposal already contains the phasing out of checks to $ 300,000 a year households.Congress and the White House negotiate the phasing out and cut-off points, and Biden meets with Democratic leaders on Friday morning and comes chairpersons to discuss the COVID-19 Enlightenment Bill. More stories from theweek.com Senator Ivanka? Former CIA officer explains why Biden is right not to “run the risk” of sending Trump intelligence briefings. The CIA analyst involved in the information session Biden should not be trusted after defending the torture program, says the former Senate investigator