Sen. Rick Scott R-Fla. said on Friday that the Biden government and Democrats “don’t care about jobs” and that the attempt to include a $ 15 minimum wage in the latest coronavirus stimulus bill is only “retribution” for liberal Democrats.
Scott, during an interview with Fox & Friends, said that more jobs would be eliminated and unemployment rates would continue to rise during the pandemic with the increase in the minimum wage.
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He said the recent closure of the Keystone pipeline is further evidence that the government cares less about jobs and more about politics.
The Senate’s chief parliamentarian decided on Thursday that an increase in the federal minimum wage should not be included in the $ 1.9 trillion relief package for COVID-19.
In a statement obtained by Fox News, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough’s decision “disappointing”. Pelosi, like many other Democrats, insisted that the salary increase be maintained in the bill and said that “it would remain on the American Floor Rescue Plan tomorrow”.
RICK SCOTT: “First, we must not change the minimum wage. We are in a pandemic. Look at our unemployment rate, look at the number of people who have no job and now we are saying that we are going to kill more jobs by increasing the minimum wage.
You know how much you get when you don’t have a job, zero. I grew up in a poor family. I saw my dad’s car being taken up twice. When you lose your job, you get zero …
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When they’re talking about raising the minimum wage, they’re saying that we don’t care about jobs, just like the Keystone pipeline – they killed 10,000 jobs there. The Biden government and the Democrats don’t care about their jobs.
What I did when I was governor, we added 1.7 million jobs because we figured out how to grow businesses. They are doing the opposite. And so this package is just revenge for liberal Democrats. “
Fox News’ Edmund DeMarche contributed to this report.