White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain
Ron KlainCollins: Biden’s .9T coronavirus package will not receive any votes from the Republican Party in the Senate. Capito asks the White House to allow the toxic chemicals rule to continue The White House press officer resigns after threatening a Politico MORE reporter He said the government would not try to annul the Senate MP if she decides that an increase in the minimum wage should be taken out of a coronavirus aid package.
“This is certainly not something we would do. We will honor the Senate rules and work within that system to get this bill approved, ”said Klain at MSBNC on Wednesday.
The government is pushing its $ 1.9 trillion stimulus package, which includes a provision to raise the federal minimum wage to $ 15 an hour by 2025. However, Democrats are eagerly awaiting a decision by the Senate MP over whether the minimum wage provision can remain in the project.
Democrats are trying to approve the package using a process known as budgetary reconciliation, which would allow legislation to pass a simple majority and avoid legislative obstruction that requires 60 votes.
However, it remains to be seen whether the Senate congressman will decide that the increase is in line with the Byrd Rule, which requires that a legislative act has an effect on the federal budget and is not “merely incidental” to that effect. to qualify to go through reconciliation.
As president of the Senate, Vice President Harris could overthrow the congressman if she decides that the minimum wage provision should be canceled. However, Biden, who served in the Senate for 36 years, is a staunch institutionalist who expressed hesitation to change the rules of the upper house.
The provision of the minimum wage opened up divisions between centrist and progressive legislators.
Sen. Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Sanders has a right goal, a wrong target in the fight to help low-wage Democrats at a standstill over the minimum wage Sanders votes against USDA-nominated Biden, Vilsack MORE (I-Vt.), The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said he was confident that the minimum wage increase would be included and the bill put pressure on senators to adopt the measure. But centrists like Sens. Joe Manchin
Joseph (Joe) ManchinHoyer: The House will vote on the COVID-19 relief bill on Friday. Haaland moderate courts during tense Senate confirmation listening to Democrats at standoff over minimum wage (DW.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) Declined the increase, raising the prospect that the minimum wage provision could be eliminated in the Senate 50-50, even if the parliamentarian approved it.