James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
12:55 P.M. EDT
MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. It’s been awhile. I feel like somebody taller than me may have been in here more recently. Let’s see. Well, happy what day is today? Tuesday. (Laughter.) Happy Tuesday to all of you. We haven’t been in here since last Tuesday.
So just a couple of items for all of you at the top. I wanted to provide a brief update on the situation at our southern border. After four years of an immigration system rooted in destructive and chaotic policies, President Biden is taking the challenge head on and is building a fair, orderly, and humane immigration system; that’s our objective.
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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