Sanders Defuses Fight Over Minimum Wage Hike: Stimulus Update
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Senator Bernie Sanders made a successful maneuver on his minimum wage proposal. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House leaders will meet with President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday. The Senate backed by 99-1 a non-binding call to oppose stimulus checks going to “upper-income taxpayers” and on a voice vote adopted an amendment opposing raising the minimum wage during a pandemic. They were two in a series of messaging votes the chamber is taking in a complex process of preparing Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief plan for passage through Congress.
The chamber was tied up for hours voting on a series of proposed amendments to a budget resolution for 2021, a step required for Biden’s package to proceed with Democrat-only support.