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JB Pritzker: “When Democrats raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, not a…”

Featuring: JB Pritzker, Democratic | Governor of Illinois

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FULL: JB Pritzker delivers victory speech on Illinois primary election night

Published | Video Starts at 07:27

When Trump took childcare and education funding away from working families, Illinois Republicans cheered him on. While Illinois Democrats passed a child tax credit and cut taxes on working families, Republicans voted against it. When Democrats raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, not a single Republican voted for it. At a time when Illinois Democrats are working to lower the cost of living and raise wages, Illinois Republicans are offering voters a destructive alliance of cowardly doom grifters who recklessly embrace ruin. (07:27–07:34)

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Asserts that Democrats raised the minimum wage to $15, and no Republicans supported it.

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