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Congress failed to pass minimum wage. Kyrsten Sinema did a courtesy when she cast the deciding no vote.
What is a true paradox is that you didn't know this.
The willfully ignorant never seek to expand their knowledge.
Sinema wasn't the deciding anything. There were 7 other members of the Democratic caucus who were willing to go on record as hating workers and wanting them to continue to suffer.
Doesn't matter. Bidden doesn't control the Senate, and he's not King. Minimum wage can only increase through Congress.
I mean, it matters to people whose wages stayed put.
Tell that to the ghost of Ted Kennedy who tried to increase minimum wage every year he was Senator. He would sigh, but not blame all the Presidents while he was in office.
Ted Kennedy has been dead for the entire Biden administration.
I don't see what he has to do with your claim that workers don't matter.
Didn't claim that. You know that. I claimed the President can't raise the minimum wage other than for government workers. WhichBiden did, BTW.
So, why didn't Obama or Trump raise the minimum wage? Because it's Congress's job.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/us/minimum-wage-senate.html
Thank you for the reminder that Biden didn't fire the parliamentarian because she blocked what he wanted blocked.
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.