Manchin Says He'll Continue to Back $11 Minimum Wage Hike
Hawley proposes $15 for billion dollar firms
Sen. Joe Manchin, (D-WV), chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, gives opening remarks at the confirmation hearing for Rep. Debra Haaland, (D-NM) President Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of the Interior, during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Feb. 24, 2021. Leigh Vogel-Pool/Getty Images
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Sunday that he will continue to push for the federal minimum wage to be increased to $11 as part of the CCP virus stimulus package, down from the $15 per hour minimum proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
The federal minimum wage must be “above the poverty guideline,” Manchin said in an interview with ABC News’s “This Week.”
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