President Donald Trump remains useless in the proposal of the republican Missouri Josh Hawley’s senator to raise the minimum wage.
President Donald Trump said he was not sure whether he would support the recent proposal under the guidance of Senator GOP Missouri Josh Houley to gather federal Minimum wages up to $ 15 per hour.
“I didn’t see it. I will have to talk to Josh. He is a very good friend,” Trump said from an oval office on Wednesday after the reporter asked if he supported this step. “It’s interesting what Josh did it. You have to think about it.”
Together with Democrat Vermont Peter Welch, Houley introduced higher wages for US workers Last week. If adopted, the legislation is more than twice the current federal minimum wage from $ 7.25 to $ 15.00 per hour.
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President Donald Trump said he was not sure whether he would support the recent proposal led by GOP Senator Josh Hawley to increase the minimum wage up to $ 15 per hour. (Getty Images / Getty Images)
Currently, at least 31 states require the state of Missouri.
“Some of them agree. Some people don’t do it,” Trump added, talking to journalists from a decisive table. “You know, some say it really turns out to business, restaurants, clothes and a lot. Other people agree. I’ll have to talk to Josh – he’s a good guy.”
Houley made an increase in the minimum wage as a “populist position”.
Currently, at least 31 states require businesses to pay most workers above the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25 per hour. (Getty Images/Istock/Photo Illustration/Fox News)
“If we are going to become a hard work party, we have to do something for the workers,” the senator said NBC NEWS After the bill was submitted last week. “And the workers have not gotten raising years. Therefore, they need to increase.”
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A few strange hood step to support the increase in the federal minimum wage follows the other steps he has taken, trying to push the economic populist agenda.
Senator Josh Houley, a Republican from Missouri, was considered during the hearings of the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs in Washington, Colombia District. (Ting Shen / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Houley collaborated with progressive Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., In February, the introduction of legislation that seeks to stop interest rates on credit cards by 10%.
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On Tuesday Houli voted nearby Progressives such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Sanders, as well as against most Republicans, when he refused to support the legislation that provides for the rules in the cryptocurrency market, which are afraid that critics will benefit institutional players at the expense of smaller investors.
Houley’s office refused to comment on this story.
