With more than eight hours to go before the vote on Friday, the move to raise the minimum wage to 15 15 by 2025, due to a stalemate over unemployment aid, attracted only 42 supporters – and 58 opponents.
“If anyone thinks we’re leaving the issue, it’s a mistake,” Mr Sanders told reporters. “If we have to re-vote on it time and time again, we will – and we’re going to succeed.”
Republicans have made it clear they are ready to discuss a stimulus package with all sorts of disastrous reforms failing, on Friday it also became clear that the opposition has many more important issues than a united minority. Legislators from both parties quickly focused on Mr. Manchin, who has repeatedly called for more targeting of the overall bill and who has cited the unemployment provision as an example.
It remained unclear what Mr. Manchin had to do with the Democrats’ proposed compromise, whether it was just the size and duration of the payments or the new provision that would waive up to 10,200 in taxes on unemployment benefits received in 2020.
Nor was it clear whether he would support an alternative amendment by Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman that would keep unemployment pay at $ 300 and reduce the duration of the program, which would set a July 18 deadline.
“Rob has bipartisan support for what he’s trying to do, and has knocked Manchin to his side – you know, they’re trying to get him in line to talk,” South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thuen told reporters. Republican Senator John Thuen of South Dakota told reporters. . He added, “I think right now, the weapons are bending.”
At one point on the Senate floor, some Democrats appeared to be engaged in a cordial discussion with Mr. Manchin about the provision. Illinois Senator Richard J. at the time of the group. Durbin, No. 2 Senate Democrat, Brian Schutz of Hawaii, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, John Tester of Montana and Kirsten Cinema of Arizona.
