Can Dems vote to set the minimum wage to go up automatically each year at the

[Quixote1818]

approximate rate of inflation? Or would Republicans just dump something like that the minute they get control again?

[bearsfootball516]

1. They could, but they'd have to nuke the filibuster to do it.

And Manchin and Sinema have already said they don't want to do that.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Most anything done by one Congress can be undone by another Congress but as with the example

of the ACA once something is passed and people get used to it can be hard to undo.

[FBaggins]

3. Both

That could be included automatically each year... and a future congress could change the scheme.

Both actions would require getting past a filibuster

[Midnight Writer]

4. Tie the minimum wage to Congressional salaries.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Interestingly, Their salaries have not gone up since 2009.

[multigraincracker]

6. Tie it to management raises.

IF the CEO gets one, so do the rest.

[multigraincracker]

7. How many raises after 2007 have they got?

Looks like some big back pay checks under my rules.