Millions of Americans are struggling to make ends meet. I’m introducing a bill w/ @SenatorRomney to give them a raise by increasing the minimum wage and ensuring businesses can't hire illegal immigrants - protecting American workers.
Today, Americans have to compete against millions of illegal immigrants who take illegally low wages under the table.

We can fix this by requiring employers to verify the legal status of every worker so they can’t undercut Americans on the black market.
At the same time, Congress hasn’t raised the minimum wage in more than a decade, so the paychecks of our poorest workers buy less than they did in 2009.

This is leaving many Americans behind.
Our proposal gradually raises the minimum wage without costing jobs and then sets it to increase automatically with inflation.

This minimum-wage increase will go into effect after the pandemic has ended and include protections for small businesses.
We have an obligation to protect our workers and fellow citizens. This common-sense proposal will give millions of Americans the raise they deserve.

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17 Feb
Tomorrow, I’ll release a report about the threat that Communist China poses to the United States—and how we can beat it.

This is a new Cold War against a new Evil Empire. We have to win.

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Communist China has more money, people, & power than the Soviet Union ever did. We're also more connected economically.

Our first task is to decouple our economies so CCP can’t exploit these connections by stealing tech & cutting off essential supplies.
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We also need to rebuild our manufacturing capabilities here at home, so America remains a technology leader and the arsenal of democracy.
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9 Feb
.@US_FDA is waiting weeks to hold a meeting to approve the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Instead of bureaucratic delays, FDA needs to move fast to save lives.
Johnson & Johnson filed for Emergency Use Authorization for its vaccine candidate on February 4. The FDA has had access to the company’s data for months, yet the FDA’s advisory committee is slow rolling this process and waiting three weeks to even discuss final approval.
This is simply inexcusable. There are more efficient ways to verify data without cutting corners or sacrificing safety. The FDA should be reviewing data as soon as it becomes available. Issuing EUA to new vaccines will vastly expand our supply and allow us to return to normalcy.
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9 Feb
If the @WHO includes the leading health and safety experts in the world, why are we now relying on their “food and safety” expert to determine the origins of #COVID19?
nbcnews.com/news/world/who…
For over a year now the Chinese Communist Party apologists at @WHO have tried to spin the origins of the coronavirus. This is the same organization that said there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission and advocated against critical early border closures and travel bans.
Taiwan had one of the most successful responses to this virus, but was excluded from @WHO meetings because of pressure from Beijing. This political game had deadly consequences. If Taiwan had been included in discussions early on, the world would have been more prepared.
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7 Feb
In February of 2020, the @washingtonpost reported that I was “fanning the embers of a conspiracy theory...debunked by experts” for “suggesting that the ongoing spread of a coronavirus is connected to research in....Wuhan, China.”

washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
The article was part of an avalanche of criticism against me for daring to say that we should follow the science instead of trusting the CCP’s version of events.

Other publications like the New York Times wrote similar stories:

nytimes.com/2020/02/17/bus…
I pushed back against the Post’s smear, saying “none of these are ‘theories’ and certainly not ‘conspiracy theories.’ They are hypotheses that ought to be studied in light of the evidence, if the Chinese Communist Party would provide it.”
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6 Feb
The Houthis are armed & trained by Iran’s overseas terror corps, the IRGC & Hezbollah. The decision to remove their terrorist designation is repeating the errors of the Obama administration by appeasing Iran & refusing to call terrorists by their name.
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The administration should be seeking justice for Americans, not sanctions relief for terrorists.
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The Houthi’s slogan is “Allah is greater, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam.”

The Biden administration just said they’re not terrorists.
jpost.com/middle-east/cu…
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2 Feb
Alejandro Mayorkas is unfit to be Secretary of Homeland Security. He has refused to enforce immigration law and has a history of corruption and scandal.

No Senator should vote in favor of confirmation.
Alejandro Mayorkas helped President Obama create "DACA" and "DAPA" (which has since been struck down as unconstitutional) to ignore immigration law & bypass Congress. If confirmed, Mayorkas will again push for executive amnesty programs--at the expense of American wages and jobs.
As head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Mayorkas helped procure green cards for special interests groups and rich Democratic donors, including Hillary Clinton's brother, Harry Reid's son, Terry McAuliffe, and a Huawei executive.
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