Yeah the Senate parliamentarian said you can’t pass it in a budget bill. Dems can unilaterally overrule it but Manchin, Sinema, and Kamala Harris/White House all oppose doing so.
Bernie’s gonna try to stick in some provisions to piss off Walmart or whatever but the minimum wage fight is lost.
Not even ‘Dems’. Kamala Harris can unilaterally overrule this. It’s like the only explicit power the VP has (in her role as president of the senate). But she won’t.
EDIT (x2): I had put something here saying they’d need to vote to uphold Harris’s ruling. That’s a bit of misinformation going around, apparently. The parliamentarian’s ruling is advisory. The real ruling comes from Harris. It would take a vote of congress to overrule Harris, not the Parliamentarian.
Yeah I think your edit is right. Manchin and Sinema say they will side with the parliamentarian no matter what, even if Harris supported overruling her (which she doesn't, as you said).
Basically the White House won't fight for it, and even if they did the Senate won't fight for it, and even if they did Manchin flat-out doesn't support the minimum wage hike anyway. So we're fucked three ways on that one.
First edit was wrong. They only need 41 votes to stick with including it, since the filibuster works in their favor. The parliamentarian isn’t a real role with power—it’s purely advisory.
I definitely knew about that person before today and have definitely heard about that person before.
Prediction: Dems don't raise the min wage at all, lose in the mid terms, and Reps do it. Not to $15 but they still raise it to say $10 or so which just covers inflation from the last increase.
They'll try and pull some shit with it being an average and include the CEO and board or some shit
I mean good on you for going down swinging, Bernie. I doubt this gets anywhere.
bernie needs to retire . He's basically a cucked shadow of himself at this point.
so we are letting small businesses continue paying people starvation wages
I asked for more than $10/hr and got laughed out of the room. They wanted me to run the whole shop, do inventory, hold keys, stock, sell/upsell, and come up with "ideas".
My rent is $1700/mo and that's on the light side. Anything with more than 2 beds goes for $2200-$2900. I reminded them that $10/hr at 40hr/week comes out to less than $1700/mo. They just said that was my problem.
This was an application for a job, but don't worry, I always steal
