Republican senators introduce their own plan to raise the minimum wage

[Jacob Siegal]

• Republican Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) will introduce a new bill to raise the minimum wage while "ensuring businesses cannot hire illegal immigrants."
• Democrats are trying to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour in the next COVID-19 relief bill, but President Biden is unconvinced that it will get the votes it needs.
• Romney and Cotton plan to share the text of their bill when Congress is back in session next week.

Unsurprisingly, the measure in President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that has received the most attention is the round of $1,400 stimulus checks. While campaigning for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock last month, Biden promised that getting the two Democrats into the Senate would secure more stimulus checks, and by the end of next week, it's likely that the bill with those checks will receive a vote in the House.

While there might be changes to the American Rescue Plan before it makes its way through Congress, the stimulus checks are probably safe, as all 50 Democrats in the Senate appear to support the measure. One measure in the bill that has not received unanimous support is a federal minimum wage hike that would gradually increase the minimum wage to $15 by 2025. Complicating matters further, two Republicans are now proposing an alternative plan.

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