The $15 minimum failed in the senate 42-58, 40 Dem + 2 Inde voted yay, in March 2021
AFAIK, nothing passed the house for sub-minimum wages
Ensuring everyone has strong benefits might be difficult when they're barely holding Republicans back from stripping Medicare and Social Security. They're at least holding the line.
This is why POTUS elections are less important than congressional elections. They make the laws and they hold the checkbook. But fewer and fewer seem to understand that. And assume that the POTUS can just dictate those types of policy at their whim.
You want domestic change? You want free healthcare? Cheap education? Better infrastructure? A better judicial system?
Then vote for the people running for the institutions that can actually can make those things happen, and that ain't supposed to be the POTUS. But evidently many, (majority?), of people can be all that arsed to bother much about the 'Downstream' elections.
If only Dark Brandon was real.
I love the mixed levels of irony here. On the one hand, it's been 4 years, so it looks like a failure. At the same time, $15 just isn't enough. What a joke. Also at the same time, if he could actually push hard on raising the minimum wage now, he could probably drum up some votes in the election.
It's cool that all of those facts are at play in this one little statement.
Unfortunately when Democrats reach across the aisle, they are giving Bobert handjobs in a Beetlejuice showing.
I asked the parliamentarian if we could do good things instead of bad things and they told me to go fuck myself :/
From 2020. Sheesh.
What a joke! Should be 30 an hour.
Banned from the news communities so they take their propaganda to other ones where people might not know them. A majority of people don't like Biden, he's hit an all time low in popularity. You on the other hand have an anti Biden agenda. Hopefully mods of other communities catch on. Tired of calling out this bs in every thread.
“What is the Executive Order 14026 2024?” へ “The EO 14026 minimum wage in effect from January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024 is $17.20 per hour. 14026 minimum wage. Similar to other workers subject to EO 14026, tipped employees must be paid a cash wage of at least $17.20 per hour, effective January 1, 2024…”
That apostrophe and two Ls are doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Will you do those things, Joe? Or will you try to, get foiled by Congress, attempt to do something within your power and then get foiled by the Supreme Court?
Maybe don't say things like that until you've got a filibuster-proof hold of Congress. And even then it'll get watered down.
But he's still better than the alternative.
Don't worry he'll make an executive order for this soon which will go into effect next year.
Pinky promise ?
