Kyrsten Sinema Kills the Minimum Wage Hike in Epic Fashion, and the Triggering Is Immense
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta As RedState’s streiff reported earlier today (see Eight Democrat Senators Crossed Over to Kill the Economy Killing $15/hr Minimum Wage), the Democrats’ gambit to shove a minimum wage hike into the current COVID relief bill has failed. Aside from being terrible policy, there was no justification at all for including a non-budgetary motion into a reconciliation bill. Nancy Pelosi’s weak, cynical attempt crashed and burned at the hands of eight Democrat crossovers. The roadblock was a little known apparatchik in the US Senate, Ellen McDonough, the Senate Parlia...