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As RedState’s streiff reported earlier today (see Eight Democrat Senators Crossed Over to Kill the Economy Killing $15/hr Minimum Wage), the Democrats’ gambit to shove a minimum wage hike into the current COVID relief bill has failed. Aside from being terrible policy, there was no justification at all for including a non-budgetary motion into a reconciliation bill.
Nancy Pelosi’s weak, cynical attempt crashed and burned at the hands of eight Democrat crossovers.
The roadblock was a little known apparatchik in the US Senate, Ellen McDonough, the Senate Parliamentarian. She ruled that the plan to include the minimum wage hike in the China virus porkulus “relief” bill did not meet Senate rules and could not be included.