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Raised minimum wage doesn't help people who aren't working (nor does same day voter registration or a grant for the Kennedy Arts). The point is she put in a bunch of "poison pills" she knows republicans won't vote for (and have nothing to do with helping people who lost their job due to CovId) as a way to draw things out and maybe get 1-2 of her honeydo list.
If Republicans ran the house and put in things restricting abortions or expanding gun ownership in a bill like this, the media would lose its mind. The point here should be trying to get money to people who are on furlough or lost their job the last two weeks. If congress wants to bicker a day or two about how to handle the protections for the bailout money, I think that's reasonable. But adding in things like Union representation for airlines, voter registration changes, carbon emissions, etc is just trying to delay the help people really need.
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