https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/25/minimum-wage-increase-cant-included-covid-relief-legislation-senate-parliamentarian/4564302001/
$15 minimum wage increase can't go in COVID relief legislation, Senate official rules
Ledyard King
USA TODAY
https://twitter.com/LORAPERKINS20/status/1365113606766030850
Minimum wage won’t be in stimulus — unless Kamala Harris overrules the Senate parliamentarian
https://rawstory.com/15-minimum-wage-stimulus-2650805153/ JUST DO IT.
@VP
Minimum wage won’t be in stimulus — unless Kamala Harris overrules the Senate parliamentarian
On Thursday, the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that the minimum wage increase cannot be included in the Democratic COVID-19 stimulus package. Democrats are passing the legislation as part of a…
rawstory.com
7:37 PM · Feb 25, 2021·Twitter Web App
https://www.rawstory.com/15-minimum-wage-stimulus-2650805153/
https://twitter.com/MoonbeamSpecial/status/1365113629603897345
Bernie Sanders suffered multiple humiliations this week.
First he had to push back the confirmation vote for the OMB director.
Then he refused to commit to vote for the OMB nominee.
Now the Senate parliamentarian has dashed away his big promise of raising the minimum wage
7:37 PM · Feb 25, 2021·Twitter Web App
He has proven to @POTUS
that he cannot be trusted with power.
And because he failed to get anything done this week, he has an incentive to go to the WH and ask for a bailout.
The same way he did with Senator John McCain when he screwed up the VA.
Faith in Agency Clouded Bernie Sanders’s V.A. Response (Published 2016)
Senator Bernie Sanders initially regarded complaints of trouble at the Department of Veterans Affairs as a play by conservatives to weaken one of the country’s largest social welfare institutions.
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To avoid further embarrassment when passing the future infrastructure package,
@WhiteHouse
now knows to never put anything in his hands.
He clearly cannot whip the votes. I'm not sure he even knows how. If he did, there would have been a committee vote this week.