Biden privately tells governors: Minimum wage hike likely isn't happening

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/18/biden-governors-minimum-wage-469898

When Joe Biden met with a group of mayors and governors last week he bluntly told them to get ready for a legislative defeat: his proposed minimum wage hike was unlikely to happen, he said, at least in the near term.

“I really want this in there but it just doesn't look like we can do it because of reconciliation,” Biden told the group, according to a person in the room. “I’m not going to give up. But right now, we have to prepare for this not making it.”

The comments, which were confirmed by two other people familiar with the conversation, were the furthest Biden has gone in conceding the coming axing of the $15-an-hour minimum wage provision from his first major legislative package. And they suggest that the president is more inclined to manage the fallout of it not being included than to pursue long-shot, political-capital consuming efforts to fight for its insertion.

Sitting in the Oval Office with Republican and Democratic elected officials last Friday to advocate for his $1.9 trillion Covid relief package, he didn’t hide his skepticism. “Doesn’t look like we can do it,” he said of the minimum wage hike.

[MaryMagdaline]

1. Damn it all

This is terrible.

[msongs]

2. congress is welcome to go for it without criticizing biden on the issue nt

[Budi]

3. Not from Politico: if it fails to pass it won't be because of Pelosi, the Dems or Pres Biden

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Speaker Pelosi, the Democrats & President Biden will do everything in their power to pass min $15.

8 days ago. Feb 11, 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said that a $15 federal minimum wage will be included in the coronavirus aid package her chamber is preparing to send to the Senate.

"We're very proud of that," she told reporters during a weekly press briefing. "As I've said, 27 million people will get a raise, 70% of them women."


Confirmation that the $15 federal minimum wage will be included in the latest version of the $1.9 trillion bill comes just days after the Senate voted on a nonbinding agreement to ban raising the minimum wage during the pandemic.

Still, House Democrats have pushed to keep the wage hike in their version of President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan, arguing that boosting pay for millions of workers is important to the U.S. economic recovery. Democrats are preparing to pass the plan through a sped-up process called budget reconciliation that doesn't require any Republican support.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/02/11/pelosi-says-15-minimum-wage-will-be-in-house-bill-sent-to-senate-.html

[Piratedog]

4. I don't think it should be part of relief package anyway. It should pass as a separate legislation.