Last week Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who defend the filibuster, voted in favor of a budget resolution by the reconciliation process. That budget resolution includes President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief package that includes $1,400 relief payments to Americans (combined with the $600 enacted in December, rounds up to $2,000). Sens. Joe Manchin … Read more
After meeting with House Democrats at the White House, President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellin urged the quick passage of a BIG COVID American Rescue Act. Reinforced by the Senate passage of a budget resolution allowing reconciliation early this morning (February 5, 2021) and the … Read more
Vote-A-Rama is over in the Senate, and there is some good news, and some bad news. Democrats approved President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, but failed to support raising the minimum wage to $15 hour. The New York Times reports, Senate Votes Against Minimum Wage Increase During Pandemic as Biden’s Economic Plan Moves Forward: Senate lawmakers … Read more
Mitch McConnell and his gang of Rethuglican senators will revive his “total obstruction” policy from the Obama era today out of retaliation for President Biden and Democratic leaders not capitulating to their bad faith weak-ass counterproposal for COVID-19 economic relief by attempting to sabotage the budget reconciliation process for the Democratic COVID-19 economic relief bill. Why … Read more
The Federal Minimum Wage needs to be increased. States like Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania (surprising,) South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia (again surprising,) Wisconsin (ouch, one of the birthplaces of Progressivism,) and Wyoming all subscribe to the current federal minimum wage which has … Read more