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Jacob Siegal
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When the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package passed the House over the weekend, it cleared one of three massive legislative hurdles that it will need to clear before it reaches President Joe Biden's desk. That's the good news, but the bad news is that the next hurdle is the highest of them all, as all 50 Senate Democrats need to be in lockstep with one another to pass a bill that Republican lawmakers have universally declined to support.
The provision that was causing the most trouble among the more moderate wing of the Democratic Party was raising the federal minimum wage to $15, but the Senate parliamentarian ruled that the increase violated the Byrd rule of the budget reconciliation process, effectively ending an interparty battle before it began in earnest. Of course, nothing is easy in government, and now another fight might be brewing ahead of a Senate vote later this week.
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