Biden bumbles; porkulus will include no minimum wage hike

[Legion]

The Senate bill will not include an increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour. That provision was part of the House bill, but it was rejected by the Senate parliamentarian who said it was not permitted under the byzantine rules DEMOCRATS are using to push the legislation through the Senate without GOP votes.

This “budget reconciliation” process allows legislation to pass with a simple majority vote, instead of the 60 normally required, but it also prohibits provisions without a certain budgetary impact. The Senate parliamentarian determined last week that the minimum-wage increase did not pass the test.

Liberals in the House are pressing the Biden administration to try to overrule the parliamentarian, but Psaki nixed that idea Monday.

“That’s not an action we intend to take,” Psaki said. She noted that such a move would also require 50 votes in favor in the Senate, which DEMOCRATS do not have.

Following the parliamentarian’s ruling, top Senate DEMOCRATS scrambled to come up with an alternative approach that would instead penalize companies that do not pay a $15 minimum wage, but those efforts collapsed over the weekend.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/03/01/biden-stimulus-covid-relief-minimum-wage/

[PostmodernProphet]

it's still full of trash though......

[Matt Dillon]

I thought porkulus was in 2009-2010?

[Legion]

it's still full of trash though......

Indeed, but the natives are really getting restless, since that and the promise of "$2000 checks immediately" were both shit on in less than 6 weeks.

[Legion]

I thought porkulus was in 2009-2010?

This one blows that one away.

[Matt Dillon]

it's still full of trash though......

Of that I have no doubt. I just hope there's nothing super-Unconstitutional in it.

[Matt Dillon]

This one blows that one away.

That "simple majority" thing sounds like something that would come back and bite the Democrats squarely in the ass later.

Like Harry Reid's "Nuclear Option" did.

PS: Pretty sure it was Rush that gave it (original) the nickname "Porkulus".

[Legion]

That "simple majority" thing sounds like something that would come back and bite the Democrats squarely in the ass later. Like Harry Reid's "Nuclear OPtion".

It might if the GOP had any chance of winning another election of national importance. Thanks to H.R. 1 and S 1, that won't ever happen again.

[Matt Dillon]

It might if the GOP had any chance of winning another election of national importance. Thanks to H.R. 1 and S 1, that won't ever happen again.

I hope this thing does not pass, then.

They're using California as the model for national elections.

[Legion]

Of that I have no doubt. I just hope there's nothing super-Unconstitutional in it.

The House version was monstrous.

Take a look: https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...us-in-the-news

Nobody has seen the Senate version publicly yet, AFAIK.

[Legion]

I hope this thing does not pass, then. They're using California as the model for national elections.

They are federalizing and codifying election cheating in perpetuity, and nobody can stop them.

Take a look: https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...ture-elections

[Legion]

[PostmodernProphet]

The House version was monstrous.

Take a look: https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...us-in-the-news

Nobody has seen the Senate version publicly yet, AFAIK.

hm.....$3.5B in grants to states to pay for childcare expenses for workers......AND paying people to stay home and take care of their kids who are being kept out of school by the government?......sounds like double dipping......(page 588)....

[MAGA MAN]

it's still full of trash though......

Google Facebook Twitter Microsoft bought this election and they want underpaid workers. Sorry 'crat voters, you've been lied to yet again...

[Legion]

hm.....$3.5B in grants to states to pay for childcare expenses for workers......AND paying people to stay home and take care of their kids who are being kept out of school by the government?......sounds like double dipping......(page 588)....

They are going to pay unionized government employees to stay home.