Overnight Defense: Top Dem backs off request for Israel arms sale delay | Afghanistan withdrawal up to 20 percent done | Esper returns to defense industry Ellen Mitchell © Stefani Reynolds Overnight Defense: Top Dem backs off request for Israel arms sale delay | Afghanistan withdrawal up to 20 percent done | Esper returns to defense industry
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THE TOPLINE: The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee will not request a delay to an arms sale to Israel after the Biden administration agreed to brief lawmakers on the deal, he said Tuesday.
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Utah’s Mitt Romney, Arizona Democrat to pitch bipartisan boost to minimum wage Matt Canham © Stefani Reynolds (Stefani Reynolds | The New York Times) Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, enters a Senate Republican Policy luncheon at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Romney and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., have reached a compromise plan to boost the minimum wage.
Sens. Mitt Romney and Kyrsten Sinema will pitch their bipartisan minimum wage plan to a key group of centrist senators Wednesday, offering the most likely path toward raising the pay floor for the first time since 2009.
Romney, R-Utah, wouldn’t say what the initial boost in the minimum wage would be, but in an interview Tuesday with The Salt Lake Tribune said that he and Sinema, D-Ariz., have worked out the details, and “it’s fair to say it’s been the Democrat plan and the Republican plan.”