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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/18/biden-governors-minimum-wage-469898

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. Im 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.

Wow. First he isn't going to cancel the 50k student loans now this.


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Hey now.