Progressive legislators, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), are threatening to bolt on the Biden administration’s COVID-19 relief bill if the measure does not include a hike in the minimum wage, according to Fox Business.
Speaking to a reporter from Politico Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez said that she and other progressives would abandon support for the $1.8 trillion aid package, that funds federal supplemental unemployment and extends an additional, individual relief check to most American taxpayers if the Biden administration decides it cannot pass the bill through “reconciliation” with the $15 minimum wage attached.
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