{"id":185677,"date":"2021-03-01T18:29:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T23:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=185677"},"modified":"2021-03-01T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T01:33:00","slug":"senate-democrats-suggest-moving-forward-on-ccp-virus-relief-bill-without-minimum-wage-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-suggest-moving-forward-on-ccp-virus-relief-bill-without-minimum-wage-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats Suggest Moving Forward on CCP Virus Relief Bill Without Minimum Wage Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-democrats-suggest-moving-forward-on-ccp-virus-relief-bill-without-minimum-wage-hike%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=185677&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Monday that the administration is not planning to overrule the parliamentarian on adding a raise to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-minimum-wage\">minimum wage<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/giving-the-right-name-to-the-virus-causing-a-worldwide-pandemic-2_3277200.html\">CCP virus<\/a> relief bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not an action we intend to take,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate parliamentarian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/senate-parliamentarian-rules-15-minimum-wage-cannot-be-included-in-covid-19-stimulus-bill_3712004.html\">ruled last Thursday<\/a> that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour cannot be included in the Democrats\u2019 proposed $1.9 trillion CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus stimulus package\u00a0under the budget reconciliation process.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki also said that the Biden administration currently doesn\u2019t have a clear alternative plan on how to raise the minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have a clear answer on what that looks like at this point, it just remains a commitment and something he will use his political capital to get done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3591251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/dick-durbin-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dick Durbin\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 10, 2020. (Susan Walsh\/Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in the House and Senate sought to fast track Biden\u2019s $1.9 trillion stimulus package by passing a budget resolution to start the reconciliation process that would allow the bill to move forward by simple majority votes, instead of needing 60 votes threshold to break any possible filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) believes that the $15 minimum wage won\u2019t be included on the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it takes 60 votes or a supermajority of some kind, it\u2019s very difficult, obviously,\u201d Durbin told reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Durbin also said that it\u2019s very unlikely that the parliamentarian can be overruled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would recommend that we look for another thing. I support increasing the minimum wage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) also told reporters that Democrats need to \u201cfind another path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to find another path to a minimum wage requirement. It\u2019s a matter of basic human decency and fairness. And I am very, very optimistic that we will find another path,\u201d Blumenthal said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though we may not have the votes right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All Democratic senators would have to vote in favor to pass the bill, however, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and\u00a0Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) have also expressed objections to including a boost to the federal minimum wage in the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3707171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/joe-manchin-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Manchin\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin speaks to a reporter outside the Senate Chamber on Feb. 13, 2021. (Greg Nash\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Congressional Budget Office\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/budget-deficit-will-increase-by-54-billion-if-congress-enacts-15-minimum-wage-cbo_3689847.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a report<\/a>\u00a0projecting that an estimated 1 million people would be \u201clifted\u201d out of poverty with an increase in the minimum wage, but the report also found that the change would result in the loss of 1.4 million jobs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mimi Nguyen contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Monday that the administration is not planning to overrule the parliamentarian on adding a raise to the minimum wage to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/dick-durbin-600x400-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate Democrats Suggest Moving Forward on CCP Virus Relief Bill Without Minimum Wage Hike","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/dick-durbin-600x400-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate Democrats Suggest Moving Forward on CCP Virus Relief Bill Without Minimum Wage Hike","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}