It goes without saying that we've got to raise the minimum wage in this country, which is now a starvation wage of seven and a quarter an hour to, to at least $17 an hour. I'm happy to tell you that Last week as part of this budget resolution process, we got every Democrat to support raising the minimum wage to 17 bucks an hour. We got one Republican. So we're making progress, but we've got to win this fight. Millions of people are working for starvation wages and that is not acceptable. (15:50–16:00)
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Asserts that every Democrat supported raising the minimum wage to $17 during the budget resolution process.
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