Minimum Wage

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), left, walks with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) on Nov. 16, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sinema agreed to sign onto new Democratic legislation that would impose a 1% excise tax on stock buybacks.

Senate Democrats help GOP block $15 minimum wage from $1.9 trillion spending bill

Susan Ferrechio · March 5, 2021 6:22 pm

In this April 4, 2019, file photo, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member Josh Hawley, R-Mo., listens to witnesses during the Committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.

It’s MAGA versus the GOP on minimum wage hike

W. James Antle III · March 4, 2021 11:30 am

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens during a hearing in D.C.

AOC calls for Senate parliamentarian to be overruled in order to push through $15 minimum wage

Andrew Mark Miller · March 3, 2021 5:50 pm

McConnell indicated that a national abortion ban could be 'possible.'

GOP’s top leader open to minimum wage increase

Susan Ferrechio · March 2, 2021 9:05 pm

Beltway Confidential

The Democratic Left’s presentism is harming the whole country

Jeremy Beaman · March 2, 2021 9:00 pm

New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez listens to a speaker at a fundraiser Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Los Angeles. The 28-year-old startled the party when she defeated 10-term U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in a New York City Democratic primary. Ocasio-Cortez is a rising liberal star who is challenging the Democratic Party establishment.

AOC says people who think raising minimum wage is a ‘crazy, socialist agenda’ are living in a ‘dystopian capitalist nightmare’

Emma Colton · March 1, 2021 4:36 pm

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. speaks at the International Youth Climate Strike event at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 15, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Ilhan Omar’s fascist behavior

Tim Worstall · March 1, 2021 1:52 pm

In this Wednesday, June 3, 2020 photo, cashier Rosario Vargas, center, bags groceries for customers at the Presidente Supermarket in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami.

Yes, raise the minimum wage, but don’t stop there

Karl Polzer · March 1, 2021 5:00 am

With minimum wage loss and Syria strikes, liberals taste first disappointments under Biden

W. James Antle III · February 27, 2021 12:00 pm

House passes $1.9 trillion coronavirus spending bill with minimum wage hike

Susan Ferrechio · February 27, 2021 7:15 am

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., walks to the chamber Thursday, March 7, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, as the House was preparing to vote on a resolution to speak out against, as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said, "anti-Semitism, anti-Islamophobia, anti-white supremacy and all the forms that it takes," an action sparked by remarks from Omar.

Omar calls on Democrats to abolish the filibuster and remove Senate parliamentarian who blocked minimum wage increase

Andrew Mark Miller · February 26, 2021 10:26 pm

Harris and White House refuse to rescue $15 wage from parliamentarian ax, frustrating Left

Emily Brooks · February 26, 2021 7:59 pm