If we as a party decide to stand down on our promise of elevating the minimum wage, I think that's extraordinarily spurious and it's something that as a party we could have a further conversation about how to fight for it," Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, after suggesting that progressives should pressure party leaders by withholding their votes in the same way that moderate Democrats have done in opposing the package.
The aid legislation now advances to the Senate, where the $15 minimum wage hike is expected to be amended.The House bill includes increasing the federal minimum wage by 2025, a measure strongly opposed by Republicans and a few moderate Democrats.