Biden Urges More Than Doubling Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour
- Republicans have battled against boosting federal floor
- Biden’s proposal comes in $1.9 trillion relief package
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Incoming President Joe Biden will seek to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of his $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill, a move that could complicate its passage through the closely divided U.S. Senate.
The measure was included in an outline of the legislation released by the president-elect’s economic team on Thursday. Biden had previously said he would make increasing the minimum wage -- currently $7.25 an hour -- an early priority, but he hadn’t specified that it would form part of the stimulus bill.