White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain
Ron KlainCollins: Biden’s .9T coronavirus package will not get any votes from Senate GOP Capito calls on White House to allow regulation of toxic chemicals carried out White House aide-de-camp resigns after to threaten the journalist of politics he said the administration would not try to overturn the Senate parliamentarian if it decides that an increase in the minimum wage should be removed from a coronavirus relief package.
“It simply came to our notice then. We will respect the rules of the Senate and work within this system to get this bill passed, ”Klain told MSBNC on Wednesday.
The administration is pushing its $ 1.9 trillion stimulus package, which includes a forecast to raise the federal minimum wage to $ 15 an hour by 2025. However, Democrats are anxiously awaiting a resolution from the U.S. parliamentarian. Senate on whether the minimum wage provision may remain in the bill.
Democrats are trying to pass the package through a process known as budget reconciliation, which would allow legislation to be passed by a simple majority and prevent the legislative filibuster from requiring 60 votes.
However, it remains to be seen whether the Senate MP would decide that the increase would be implicated in the Byrd rule, which requires legislation to have effects on the federal budget and not be “merely incidental” to such effects. qualify to go through reconciliation.
As Speaker of the Senate, Vice President Harris would be able to revoke the parliamentarian if she decides to dismiss the minimum wage provision. However, Biden, who served in the Senate for 36 years, is a staunch institutionalist who has expressed his hesitation to change the rules of the upper house.
The provision of the minimum wage has broken divisions between centrist and progressive legislators.
His. Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Sanders has a right goal and a wrong goal in the fight to help low-wage workers Democrats face minimum wage Sanders votes against Vilsack, Biden USDA candidate MORE (I-Vt.), The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, has said he is confident the minimum wage hike will be included and that the bill will pressure senators to come closer to the measure. But centrists like Sens. Joe Manchin
Joseph (Joe) ManchinHoyer: House to vote on COVID-19 relief bill on Friday Haaland courts moderate during tense Senate confirmation hearing Democrats face minimum wage MORE (DW.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) Have rejected the increase, raising the prospect that the minimum wage provision could be killed in the Senate from 50 to 50 even if parliament makes it true.