Mitt Romney and Kyrsten Sinema working on bill to raise minimum wage

Both Mitt Romney and Kyrsten Sinema are working on a ‘bipartisan’ bill to raise the minimum wage:

DAILY CALLER – Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema have joined their efforts in crafting a new bill that would raise the federal minimum wage.

“We’re negotiating a minimum wage proposal which we would ultimately take to our group of 20 and see how they react to it and then go from there,” Romney told HuffPost in a piece published Wednesday, apparently alluding to a bipartisan group of centrist-minded lawmakers.

Although the Utah senator refused to share more details on the prospective bill, Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin told HuffPost he thinks “it’s $11.”

A number of Senate Democrats and progressives including Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Democratic Washington Sen. Patty Murray and Manchin are reportedly set to meet Wednesday to negotiate among themselves before moving forward with bipartisan initiatives.

Leave it to Romney to be the one that raises the minimum wage nearly four dollars, assuming the amount Manchin gives ends up being the one they go with. I can’t imagine it would be any lower and Democrats will no doubt try and push it higher. It’s essentially halfway between what Democrats truly want and the current minimum wage of $7.25, and this would put them even closer to their goal.

My question is why even work on something like this, especially when the economy is still in the crapper because of the pandemic and businesses are struggling to recover. In my opinion this is a terrible idea, but exactly what a RINO like Romney would do.


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