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getagrip_already

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4. then call bernie also - he voted along with manchin....
Fri Feb 5, 2021, 08:56 AM
Feb 2021

Sanders, the Senate Budget chairman, successfully defused a fight late Thursday over Biden’s proposal to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.

At issue was a non-binding budget amendment from Senator Joni Ernst, an Iowa Republican, that opposed raising the wage “during a global pandemic.”

While Sanders said he still intends to increase the wage to $15 an hour in the virus relief package, he said his plan always called for a five year phase-in. He said the $15 wage would be in place five years from now, not during the pandemic itself, so he would support Ernst’s amendment.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-04/romney-proposes-expanding-child-tax-credit-stimulus-update

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