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To End 'New Gilded Age,' House Progressives Unveil Bill to Raise Federal Minimum Wage to $25 Per Hour
(www.commondreams.org)
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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It's not going to pass; and they're future faking (again!) to get people to vote for genocide.
There're soft power advantages even for a Bill with an expected 1% chance of passing (GovTrack):
I'd rather have Democrats doing this type of strategy over sitting on their hands while they have no power. When it fails loudly in a hostile Congress it may accomplish more than a watered-down bill that quietly passes.
The right wing in America kept trying to pass anti-abortion laws for decades even though they were obviously unconstitutional, and here we are...
Obama promised to codify Roe into law and didn't do so even though he had a supermajority.
Dems may not say it, but they love that abortion's an issue that they can fundraise off of, and they have no intention of making it explicitly legal nationwide.
Why is that? How many times could Dems have codified RvW, since SCOTUS ruled on it? Why didn't they?
Yup.