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Democratic Party

'Bad Policy and Bad Politics': Manchin Is Trying to Cut Unemployment Benefits, Limit Survival Checks in Covid Relief Bill

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) speaks during a hearing in Washington, D.C. on February 24, 2021.

Urging Senate to 'Ignore the Parliamentarian,' Sanders to Force Vote on $15 Minimum Wage Amendment

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, arrives at a hearing on Capitol Hill on February 25, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

"I regard it as absurd that the parliamentarian, a Senate staffer elected by no one, can prevent a wage increase for 32 million workers."

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'Democrats Will Lose in 2022' If $15 Wage Dies in Senate: Anger Grows as Biden-Harris Bow to Unelected Parliamentarian

Jon Queally, staff writer

In this file photo, then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks in support of raising the minimum wage for the state of New York to $15 per hour on September 10, 2015 in New York City. Biden campaigned for president in 2020 on raising the federal minimum wage to $15 but is now saying he will allow the Senate Parliamentarian to overrule the elected Democratic Party leadership on including it in a sweeping Covid-19 package that (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

"If you were writing a Dickensian novel, it would be about millions of...

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'All You Need to Know': Here Are the 210 House Republicans—and Two Democrats—Who Voted to Deny Struggling Nation Covid-19 Relief

Jon Queally, staff writer

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks during his weekly news conference in the Capitol in Washington on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Every single member of the GOP House caucus, joined by two Democrats, voted against a sweeping Covid-19 relief package early Saturday morning. (Photo: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"When we voted to raise the minimum wage this morning," said Democratic...

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A doctor with the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, walks by a supportive sign on a boarded-up shop while speaking with homeless people about the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Haight Ashbury area of San Francisco California on March 17, 2020. (Photo: Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images)

With $15 Wage Included, House Dems Fulfill Election Promise With Passage of Sweeping $1.9 Trillion Covid-19 Relief

President Joe Biden boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on February 26, 2021.

'It Should Be Easier to Raise Minimum Wage Than to Drop Bombs on Syria': Progressives Fume at Biden

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing December 12, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

'Not Gonna Fly': Jayapal Warns Democrats Against Using Parliamentarian Advice as Excuse Not to Pass $15 Wage

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) walks to the Senate chamber at the U.S. Capitol on February 10, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

'This Is Unacceptable': Progressives Reject Manchin Plan to Cut $15 Minimum Wage Proposal to $11

Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden's nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), testifies during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 10, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Progressives Not Mourning as Neera Tanden's Bid to Head OMB on Verge of Collapse

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is seen on the House steps of the Capitol on December 4, 2020. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Ocasio-Cortez Calls for Probe of Cuomo's Disastrous Handling of Covid-19 Outbreaks in Nursing Homes

Sherrod Brown Demands Biden Immediately Remove Two 'Key Agents' of Trump Agenda to Destroy Social Security

Protesters rally outside the home of U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors member John Barger on August 22, 2020 in San Marino, California.

To Pave Way for DeJoy's Ouster, 80 House Democrats Urge Biden to Quickly Fill Postal Board Vacancies

'He Is Lying. People Are Dying': Calls for Texas Governor to Resign as He Blames Power Outages on Wind and Solar

Participant holding a sign at a climate justice march in New York City on September 20, 2020. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

After Trump Acquittal by GOP, Sunrise Movement Says 'Time Is Now to Abolish the Filibuster'

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) walks back to his office from the Senate floor on U.S. Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, February 4, 2021.

'Subpoena Kevin McCarthy If You Have To': Democrats Urged to Bring Witnesses After Bombshell Report on Trump Call

House Impeachment Manager Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) walks on the Senate Side of the U.S. Capitol Building on Thursday, February 11, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

WATCH LIVE: House Democrats Present Closing Arguments on Day 3 of Trump Impeachment Trial

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Social Security Works

Democrats Must Keep Fighting for a Living Wage

Sunrise Movement

Sunrise Movement Responds to $15 Min Wage Removal From Reconciliation Process, Demands Democrats "Do Everything in Their Power to Deliver"

Sunrise Movement

Sunrise Movement Statement on Trump Acquittal: Warns if Dems Don’t Abolish the Filibuster, Future Presidents Days will Celebrate a 2nd Term Trump

Earthjustice

Earthjustice Urges Senate Committee to Advance Regan EPA Nomination

Sunrise Movement

Sunrise to Hold Rallies Demanding "No Compromise, No Excuses" to Top Democratic Leaders

The Greenlining Institute

Greenlining Institute Congratulates Georgia Winners, Urges Bold Agenda

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Robert Reich

Senate Democrats Can and Must Abolish the Filibuster. Now.

Alex Lawson

Want to Strengthen Social Security? Raise the Minimum Wage—and Do It Now!

Julie Hollar

There Is Nothing "Moderate" About Opposing the Very Popular $15 Minimum Wage

Norman Solomon

Cuomo and Newsom Symbolize the Rot of Corporate Democrats—and the Dire Need for Progressive Populism

Ralph Nader, Bruce Fein

Democrats' Shameful Cave

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

The Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage Is a Fight for Racial Justice

Jeffrey C. Isaac

Trump's Guilt Clearly Demonstrated During Senate Trial

Elliot Gilfix

Jeep Ad Featuring Bruce Springsteen Emblematic of Lazy Obsession With the Mythical Political "Center"

Ralph Nader

Democrats Disarm Themselves Before Trump’s Senate Impeachment Trial

Mitchell Zimmerman

More Partisanship, Not Less: Democrats Shouldn’t Compromise Their Solutions to Pander to a GOP That Is Part of the Problem