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Democrats didn't get out of their own way on minimum wage. The Republicans will for tax cuts [1]

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Date: 2025-04-03

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Back in 2021, when we had gotten the incompetent scourge out of the White House, the Democratically controlled Senate (50-50 + the VP) refused to override the Senate Parliamentarian, who ruled against including a $15.00 minimum wage in the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill.

After the ruling, House progressives and outside groups have urged Democrats to put Harris in the chair presiding over the Senate and ignore advice from the parliamentarian. But Harris does not have the support of the 50 senators she would need to back her up on such a move, a fact to which the White House alluded Monday.

We have to stop working with (for?) the Republicans and undermining our values.

Meanwhile, the current Republican Senate has no problem at all bypassing the Senate Parliamentarian in order to get their legislative agenda (i.e. extending the Thrump tax cuts) to Thrump’s desk.

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