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Lmao Biden and the Democrats? Are you high? Part of Bidens covid relief bill included a $15 minimum wage. It was struck out of the bill by a vote of 58-42. A grand total of 7(well, 6, since Sinema isn't a Dem anymore and never really was) democrats voted against it. EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN voted against it.
Now tell me, why is it "Biden and the Democrats" fault when they actually try to improve things but fail(even if the 6/7 nay dems had voted yeah, that's still at best 49 yeahs), but never Republicans fault when they actually DO vote in lockstep to prevent any democrat endorsed legislation from passing, and when a significant percentage of them are actively trying to strip rights away from people?
Oh, I forgot to mention; while Biden doesn't have the executive power to unilaterally raise the national minimum wage, he DOES have the power to raise the minimum wage for employees of the federal government, which... he did.
The Democrats aren't going to achieve their stated goals unless they either curbstomp the republican party or start acting like a unified team with unified goals and don't let individual representatives vote against the party on big bills. Republicans are in lockstep and only need the slightest majority to get sweeping changes through, and Democrats will keep failing until they either do the same or somehow destroy the republican party, and I don't see either happening anytime soon
Ya, I would say I lean that direction on many issues but the party is such a disaster. I have to think it's intentional how ineffective they are.
Irrelevant after all the shit Trump pushed through with EOs. Biden could absolutely use Executive powers to raise the minimum wage
Oh right, that time we learned the senate parliamentarian exists. The convenient scapegoat for why dems failed again.
Republicans are shit, but republicans lost. This was a wholy dem controlled government, theres no one left to blame but dems.
Composition of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2023, by party affiliation
Another view on the same facts...
118th Congress House Lineup: 221 Republicans, 212 Democrats, 2 Vacancies
117th congress
The 118th Congress could do something about that today.
That statement was true for the 117th congress as well, when they controlled both legislatures and the presidency. Theyre not getting another chance like that.
Trolls gonna troll