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McConnell Open to Minimum Wage Increase, but Against Quick Raise to $15 an Hour
The top Republican in Congress on Tuesday signaled a willingness to increase the federal minimum wage.
“It is true that it hasn’t been raised for quite a while, and I think it’s worth discussing,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.
“But we know the result of a $15 federal minimum wage increase all at once 1.4 million lost jobs. That’s not what we need in the middle of a pandemic,” he added.
Democrats inserted a minimum wage increase in their COVID-19 relief package that the House of Representatives passed last week with no Republican support. The proposal would gradually raise the wage over four years.
After the House passes President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, Democrats are now aiming to send the bill to Biden’s desk for his signature as soon as next week.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats publicly called on President Biden on Wednesday to nominate Shalanda Young to lead the Office of Management and Budget, after the president withdrew the nomination of Neera Tanden for the post.
The fake outrage machine has claimed a scalp. The White House announced on Tuesday evening that Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s pick for Office of…