MS. PSAKI: All right. Happy Tuesday.
Okay, a couple of items for you at the top. Today, President Biden is issuing an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay a $15 minimum wage to hundreds of thousands of their employees. These workers are critical to the functioning of federal government, from cleaning professionals and maintenance workers, to nursing assistants who care for the nation’s veterans, to cafeteria and other food service workers who ensure we all have healthy and nutritious food to eat, to laborers who build and repair federal infrastructure.
The executive order will increase the hourly minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 in new and renewed contracts and contract options starting in January 2022. This increase must be implemented by March 30th, 2022; continue to index the minimum wage to an inflation measure, so it keeps up the cost of living with the cost of living; eliminate the tipped minimum wage for federal contractors by 2024; ensure
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Q Exactly. So are you guys going to take
MS. PSAKI: So you mean extending it or making it permeant?
Q Is that the position the definite position?
MS. PSAKI: The
Q Progressives and plenty of moderates also say that it should be extended permanently, is that the position?
MS. PSAKI: Sure. What I was trying to clarify I apologize is that it’s not currently permanent.
Q Right.
Q Whether that’ll be a red line, like you said, or
MS. PSAKI: Well
Q a definite part of proposal.
MS. PSAKI: And the President absolutely feels that that the Child Tax Credit provides essential funding and help to people who need help the most. That’s why, in the American Rescue Plan, he increased the Child Tax Credit from $2,000 to $3,000 per child, and to $3,600 for children under the age of 6. And the expansion was the single-largest policy contributor to cutting child poverty, as is evidenced by the chart we had up.