Biden Has Canceled Student Debt for Nearly 4 Million

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    8 months ago

    While Mr. Biden included the minimum wage increase in his stimulus proposal and the House passed it as part of its version of the package, a top Senate official, Elizabeth MacDonough, ruled that it could not be included in the bill under the strict rules governing the reconciliation process, which protects legislation from filibusters and allows it to pass with a simple majority. Democrats are using reconciliation to fast-track the bill through the Senate.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/us/minimum-wage-senate.html

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      8 months ago

      Thank you for the reminder that Biden didn’t fire the parliamentarian because she blocked what he wanted blocked.

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        8 months ago

        Wtf does the parliamentarian of the senate have to do with Biden? Do you honestly think Biden can fire her? They aren’t even in the same branch of government. Get it together.

        Assuming you’re just a troll at this point, but if you really don’t know the senate decides who the senate parliamentarian is, of course, just like everyone else who works for the senate, and she was appointed in 2012 by Harry Reid.