President Donald Trump remains uncommitted about Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley’s proposal to raise the federal minimum wage.
It was unclear whether President Donald Trump would support a recent proposal led by GOP Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
“I’ve never seen it. I have to talk to Josh. He’s a very good friend of mine,” Trump said Wednesday from his oval office after reporters asked if he supported the move. “It’s interesting that Josh did that. You have to think about it.”
Alongside Democrats, Vermont Sen. Peter Welch and Holy. Introduced higher wages for the American Workers Act last week. If passed, the law would more than double the current federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15.00.
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It was unclear whether President Donald Trump would support a recent proposal led by GOP Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. (Getty Images/Getty Images)
At least 31 states now require businesses to pay most workers above the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, including their home town of Missouri in Holy.
“Some people agree. Some don’t,” Trump added while talking to a decisive desk reporter. “You know, some people say it really does happen, the business, the restaurants, the clothes, a lot of things. Others agree. I have to tell Josh – he’s a good guy.”
Holy framed a raise to the minimum wage as “populist status.”
At least 31 states now require businesses to pay most workers more than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. (Getty Images/istock/Photo Illustration/Fox News)
“If we’re going to be a worker’s party, we have to do something for the workers,” the senator said. NBC News After the bill was introduced last week. “And the people who work have not had a raise in years, so they need a raise.”
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The somewhat surprising move to support the rise in the minimum wage in Holy follows other moves he has made to promote the economic populist agenda.
Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, was seen at a hearing of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images/Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Holy teamed up with progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in February to introduce a law that attempted to cap credit card interest rates to 10%.
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Tuesday, Holy I voted together Critics fear that the majority of progressives and Republicans like Senator Elizabeth Warren and Sanders will benefit institutional players at the expense of small investors.
The Holy office declined to comment on the story.
