Josh Hawley’s minimum wage misfire

Josh Hawley’s minimum wage misfire


It’s a headline designed to make President Ronald Reagan roll over in his grave: “Conservative Sen. Josh Hawley wants to raise federal minimum wage.” And we’re not talking about a minor increase: This “conservative” Republican senator just embraced a key part of the Bernie Sanders agenda, a $15 national minimum wage.

“Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley plans to introduce legislation Tuesday to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour — a position that aligns one of the most conservative Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill with some of the most liberal members of Congress,” CBS News reports. Move over, Bernie! 

The statement Hawley put out could’ve been written by Sanders, too, as it bore his signature mix of working-class virtue signaling and factual inaccuracy. 

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