Posted on 02/18/2021 7:51:36 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
When Joe Biden met with a group of mayors and governors last week he bluntly told them to get ready for a legislative defeat: his proposed minimum wage hike was unlikely to happen, he said, at least in the near term.
“I really want this in there but it just doesn't look like we can do it because of reconciliation,” Biden told the group, according to a person in the room. “I’m not going to give up. But right now, we have to prepare for this not making it.”
The comments, which were confirmed by two other people familiar with the conversation, were the furthest Biden has gone in conceding the coming axing of the $15-an-hour minimum wage provision from his first major legislative package. And they suggest that the president is more inclined to manage the fallout of it not being included than to pursue long-shot, political-capital consuming efforts to fight for its insertion.
Sitting in the Oval Office with Republican and Democratic elected officials last Friday to advocate for his $1.9 trillion Covid relief package, he didn’t hide his skepticism.
“Doesn’t look like we can do it,” he said of the minimum wage hike.
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LOL
Because he knows it would crash the already uncertain economy
How YA like your pervert, pedophile, criminal unpresident now, dems?
Wow. What a dealmaker!! Lol
Breaking all his promises early. Hoping the tards won’t remember by 24.
Was Doctor Jill there to help him get the words out, and to wipe the drool off his chin?
Hey Braindead! Where’s my $1400 bucks?
You mean he was wide awake and drugged up to figure this out? Effing idiot child molester.
By Jove, I think he’s got it!
Bull! He doesn't know squat. His handlers are running things.
Joe is not making any decisions. He just gets up in the morning and is told to go sit in front of the TV where he watches re-runs of Mr. Rogers. Then he has lunch and goes to a meeting.
After his nap of course. No meetings on a full stomach.
The guy is an empty shell. Dementia test done yet?
I am not sure Biden is smart enough to connect those dots. He does not seem to be an economic genius.
Very true. We’ll soon find out if his puppet masters are willing to use him to take this country over the edge.
Not with 10-15 million new uneducated, diseased, or ISIS migrants about to be welcomed into the country over the next couple of years...
They work cheap... Most have an advanced degree in rape, drunk driving, & pillage...
Wait a minute. I talked to three workers......
Worker 1 was making $8.00 and hour. $15 dollars is great news.
Worker 2 was making $12 dollars an hour. $15 and hour would help.
Worker 3 was making $15 dollars and hour.And shouted “Where is my raise?”
I QUIT!!
Biden couldn’t get the job done with toothpicks, tape + viagra!
I don’t think he KNOWS anything. His handlers quietly went to Pelosi and she hinted strongly that a third of the Democrats have already voiced concerns and said the most they will vote for is $8.50 being the national minimum wage, and maybe arriving at $9 by 2024.
There’s a total disconnect between the Joe-Squad and the Nancy-crew. They ought to sit in the same room...get a agreement up and spend a month getting a draft bill up and running. But these idiots aren’t that capable.
Massive job killer. They know.
Ah, but the union worker out there is quite happy.
Seems that with €15 for the minimum wage then union jobs will get a kick as I bet many contracts connect to the min. wage.
Call me skeptical but as they say “follow the money”.
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