He's no dummy as he is a multi-millionaire from the only job he has ever had with the Gubmint - he just has a lot of dummies as supporters. He's been around long enough to know that Republicans in the Senate will raise a Byrd Rule point of order for the minimum wage increase. The Senate Parliamentarian will likely rule that vaid. Hard to believe that they can get 9 Republicans to vote to override that. There are also significant obstacles to increasing overall spending. That could set up a situation where spending across the board, including autopilot spending like Medicare, SS, etc, would be slashed to pay for it unless they get 60 votes to override that. Thus far they have only passed resolutions to use budgetary reconciation, the real devil is in the details. Here's Reconciliation for Dummies resource which is greatly simplified compared to the actual language
https://budget.house.gov/sites/democrats.budget.house.gov/files/documents/Budget%20Reconciliation%20The%20Basics%20-%202020.pdf
He's no dummy as he is a multi-millionaire from the only job he has ever had with the Gubmint - he just has a lot of dummies as supporters. He's been around long enough to know that Republicans in the Senate will raise a Byrd Rule point of order for the minimum wage increase. The Senate Parliamentarian will likely rule that vaid. Hard to believe that they can get 9 Republicans to vote to override that. There are also significant obstacles to increasing overall spending. That could set up a situation where spending across the board, including autopilot spending like Medicare, SS, etc, would be slashed to pay for it unless they get 60 votes to override that. Thus far they have only passed resolutions to use budgetary reconciation, the real devil is in the details. Here's Reconciliation for Dummies resource which is greatly simplified compared to the actual language https://budget.house.gov/sites/democrats.budget.house.gov/files/documents/Budget%20Reconciliation%20The%20Basics%20-%202020.pdf