Senate Parliamentarian ruled NO on $15 minimum wage in Reconciliation

According to this article now supporters of the wage hike need 60 votes to overrule the Parliamentarian, thus giving cover for Democrats to cower. But that is not true damn it. As noted previously and verified, the President of the Senate can overrule the Parliamentarian since the latter only advises the former who has the actual authority. In that case then 60 votes are needed to overrule the President, and the opposition does not have the votes for that. 

Do not accept this fake excuse that this issue is over. We demand that the Democrats use the above Senate rule to get this wage increase in Reconciliation. And if they do not then it's time to replace them, for they have the power to do it and if they won't do it now their verbal support is empty and quite frankly insulting. No excuses: DO IT!

Even if we get the wage hike in, we might lose the majority vote on the Bill. But that would put extra pressure on both Manchin and Sinema to scrap the entire Bill and are they willing to do that? I think if we get it in the Bill then we can apply enormous pressure on both of them to pass the entire Bill, given the severity of the need for it right now.

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