Can't do much if the majority rule is blocking all of that.
He should be getting in front of a camera every day and saying "here's what we're trying to do. Here's why it helps you/society. And here are the assholes standing in the way". And if those assholes are Democrats, kick them out of the party and support a better candidate to run against them.
Yes! This is what strong leadership looks like. We haven’t seen it from POTUS in far too long.
Easy solution to this constant nagging problem would be ending the filibuster.
The $15 minimum failed in the senate 42-58, 40 Dem + 2 Inde voted yay, in March 2021
AFAIK, nothing passed the house for sub-minimum wages
Ensuring everyone has strong benefits might be difficult when they're barely holding Republicans back from stripping Medicare and Social Security. They're at least holding the line.
How many democrats in the senate?
I’m not American just trying to understand if any voted no or it was all republicans.
47 at the moment but there's 2 independents (Bernie Sanders and Angus King) that caucus with the Dems, and 2 more that are "aligned" with the Dems (Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin). So currently 51ish.
But at the time of that vote it was 50ish but Manchin and Sinema were officially part of the party then. If a vote is a tie, the VP (Kamala Harris) gets to vote. So it needed 50 votes to pass.
Here's an article on the eight Dems that voted against it: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/541860-the-eight-democrats-who-voted-no-on-15-minimum-wage/
Note that Manchin and Sinema voted against it and have left the party since then. This is largely because of them voting against this and similar legislation created a general disdain for them within the party. They won't be back after the next election.
All 50 republicans voted against it.
And people vote for Republicans? Are they retarded?
Yes. The GOP only survives because of poor education.
It really is sad to see the same crowd talking about how great things were back then, and suck now, when they've spent the last four decades voting in the people who have spent the same time diminishing public education's effectiveness. My parents are some of those voters...
Since 2022 Democrats have 47 , Independent have 4, Republicans have 49
In 2020 Democrats had obtained the majority with 48 and 2 Independent caucusing together, against 50 Republicans. Since it was 50:50 the Vice President had to be the tie breaker for selecting the majority leader.
8 D voted nay along with 50 R, but if you don't see how it failing was the result of the R party then you'd be a damn fool.
40 Dem + 2 Inde voted yay
Did they throw their hands in the air, too?
Healthcare shouldn't be a benefit. It should be a fucking right!
It is in most of the civilised world
This is why POTUS elections are less important than congressional elections. They make the laws and they hold the checkbook. But fewer and fewer seem to understand that. And assume that the POTUS can just dictate those types of policy at their whim.
You want domestic change? You want free healthcare? Cheap education? Better infrastructure? A better judicial system?
Then vote for the people running for the institutions that can actually can make those things happen, and that ain't supposed to be the POTUS. But evidently many, (majority?), of people can be all that arsed to bother much about the 'Downstream' elections.
Exactly.
The executive branch is only one part of a bigger system. Local, county, and state elections probably have a bigger impact on your lives than the presidential ones.
I live in a deep red state so my vote for President will hardly ever matter but I'll be damned if I don't vote against the archaic amendments that get proposed.
Looks like it would be a good idea to reelecte him and give him a Democratic senate and house in 2024
If only Dark Brandon was real.
that sub-minimum wage really hurts right about now
This will be unpopular:
Before or at the same time as we fix sub-minimum wage, we need to also address the disability benefits cliff. I personally know multiple disabled people that limit how much they are working so that they don’t hit the cutoff where all the benefits disappear, not tail off. Generally these people enjoy their work and are capable of working more, but if they earn a dollar too much, they are screwed, loosing access to a number of subsidies and medical care.
My little brother dealt with that on his SSI and it is total bullshit. He couldn't work past like 15 or 20 hours a week or they'd take all of his benefits away. They need to either make them tail off slowly or move that cliff back to like $200k/yr.
Why would that be unpopular
For some reason there's a lot of hate for disabled poeple. It's like poeple view them as a ugly drain on society. I had a guy tell me to my face disabled poeple should be dead. Source: husband is disabled.
Also the fact they aren't allowed to save up money. I think it's like $2k saved up and they get cut off. That's not even enough for first last and security deposit if they wanted to try and move to a better situation.
I recently read an article describing how when disabled people have too much in their savings accounts or try to pay off outstanding debts, they are ordered to repay years worth of benefits. We can fix this! Peer-reviewed study after per-reviewed study (in theory and practice) has shown it costs less to just do the right things and look after each other (whether we think it's deserved/earned/insert other term here) or not. We can fix it. It's a matter of rolling up our sleeves and consistently apply pressure in proper spaces.
Direct action, mutual aid in the meantime. For everyone.
I can't live on $15/hr. I'm barely scraping by at $18. Minimum wage now needs to be closer to $25-30/hr.
$15/hr was the demand over a decade ago. The buying power of the dollar has maybe halved since then. When it's finally achieved, it'll be paraded around as an accomplishment by politicians who waited until it became too little too late and corporations will use it as an excuse to jack up prices even further.
I'm 38. Make 29/hr. I'm fortunate enough to own my home, well rather renting from my bank for the next 16 years. Anyways, I'm barley getting by as well. Between my car payment and the mortgage it's nearly impossible to get by as a single income household. I can't even imagine how bad it would be if I had kids.
It's to the point where I'd consider dating someone just to cut the bills in half.
Lol... not seriously, but definitely maybe
It's very weird to want strong benefits from your employer and not simply as a separate thing. Maybe that's not what he meant but the way it's listed is vague.
I love the mixed levels of irony here. On the one hand, it's been 4 years, so it looks like a failure. At the same time, $15 just isn't enough. What a joke. Also at the same time, if he could actually push hard on raising the minimum wage now, he could probably drum up some votes in the election.
It's cool that all of those facts are at play in this one little statement.
Unfortunately when Democrats reach across the aisle, they are giving Bobert handjobs in a Beetlejuice showing.
Biden: End the tipped minimum wage.
Tipping also disappears.
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