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GOP pitches Biden on bipartisan Covid-19 package
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Republicans are hoping to sell President Joe Biden on an alternative Covid-19 relief plan less than a third of the size of his $1.9 trillion proposal. A group of Senate Republicans is meeting with Biden to kick off fresh bipartisan negotiations on the next coronavirus relief bill, our Burgess Everett reports even as Democratic leaders say they intend to push through their massive relief package to Biden’s desk via budget reconciliation, which would be filibuster-proof and wouldn’t require a single GOP vote.
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For far too many, the American Dream is an illusion something never to be achieved. Those people are struggling to rise above the poverty line even as they work 40 or more hours a week.
That’s why some states and local governments have begun to raise the minimum wage, and now Democrats at the national level are attempting to do the same.
President Biden’s COVID-19 relief legislation includes a gradual increase of the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. If it passes, it will be the first increase since 2009.
But not everyone is on board, fearing job loss and hits to the economy.
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