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Parliamentarian: COVID-19 bill must lose minimum wage hike

by Alan Fram
| February 25, 2021 5:03 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate parliamentarian has dealt a potentially lethal blow to Democrats’ drive to hike the minimum wage, deciding that the cherished progressive goal must fall from a massive COVID-19 relief bill the party is trying to speed through Congress, Democratic Senate aides said Thursday.

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