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11 Feb, 6 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: Democrats are at odds about whether to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour in the Covid bill.

The House is moving forward with it.

If this passes it’ll set up a clash with the Senate, where there is procedural and policy division on a $15 wage.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
President Biden put a $15 wage in his Covid bill but he's backing away by saying it'll likely die under Senate rules. Bernie Sanders isn't happy—he says the policy is eligible for reconciliation and that it's now or never.

Echoes of 2020 primary tension.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Moderate House Democrats increasingly fear that pushing a $15 wage in the Covid bill would be a strategic mistake.

nbcnews.to/3d3Ty8s

How one senior aide from that camp described it to me: Image
Counterpoint
In 2019, just six House Democrats voted against a bill to raise the minimum wage hike to $15/hour.

One is still around:

Schrader

The other five are not:

Brindisi
Cunningham
Horn
McAdams
Torres Small

(The bill passed the House but was never considered in the GOP-run Senate.)
Fresh minimum wage news today 👇

PELOSI says the House will pass a $15 wage in the Covid reconciliation bill.

SCHUMER says he is “working very closely” with Sanders to make a wage hike comply with Senate rules.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

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These two are allied in shared goals today but they are not — to put it mildly — the best of friends.
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8 Feb
NEW: "The era of small government is over."

Democrats want to bulk up the Covid package with more cash relief, this time for families with kids, the latest sign of a shift within the party away from deficit fears and toward a larger economic safety net.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Democrats are haunted by memories of 2009, when they downsized their crisis aid bill only to see a slow recovery and get hammered for it politically the following year. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
On Democrats’ new child allowance: A Columbia study of a similar plan found it’d cut child poverty 42%.

“The ACA — Biden called that a 'big f---ing deal,' and I think this is of the same magnitude in terms of investment in children,” says @SethHanlon.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
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7 Feb
Liz Cheney tells Fox News Sunday she won’t resign. “People have been lied to. The extent to which President Trump for months leading up to Jan. 6th spread the notion that the election had been stolen or that the election was rigged was a lie and people need to understand that.”
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1 Feb
NEW: Democrats are confronting a dilemma with using reconciliation to pass Covid relief —> statutory PAYGO.

It'd trigger automatic cuts to Medicare which experts say needs 60 Senate votes to stop.

@BernieSanders' office tells me he'll fight to avert it.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Republicans faced a similar problem in 2017 when they used reconciliation to pass a deficit-raising tax cut. But Democrats helped them stop some $25 billion in automatic Medicare cuts. Now, some wonder: Would the GOP do the same? nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
tl;dr —> The 2010 PAYGO law enacted by Democrats forces automatic cuts to Medicare and other safety-net programs if new policies raise the debt. Congress can stop the cuts (and often does). But that probably can't be done in reconciliation. Needs 60 votes. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
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31 Jan
New: 10 Republican senators write a letter asking to meet w/ Biden and discuss a Covid relief counter-proposal they’re working on. They say it’ll have $160b for vaccines, $4b for abuse services, existing UI, nutrition + unspecified policies on “targeted” economic aid and schools.
Notably, no Democrats are on this letter—it’s a GOP-only plan at a time when they’re in the minority in both chambers. It’s sure to face pushback from progressives who see $1.9T as a minimum. And it’ll test President Biden’s incompatible calls for going bold and being bipartisan.
The Republican letter comes as Dems are eying reconciliation to bypass the 60-vote rule on a Covid relief bill—it’s an attempt to steer Biden toward a different path. Schumer has insisted that going small isn’t an option.
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