The parliamentarian has ruled $15
minimum wage will not be
allowed in the COVID relief bill.
They're saying that it cannot be
passed through reconciliation,
that it does not affect
the budget directly, and so
will be stricken from the bill.
Now when the parliamentarian rules
that way, remember, that means even
if it comes as a standalone bill,
it still cannot pass through
reconciliation.
So, if you don't know any of those
technical terms, which by the way
are totally irrelevant, they're
made up for obstruction reasons.
I'm going to explain
why in a second.
That just means that the democrats
cannot pass it with 50 votes.
So they must, they need 60 votes
unless they end the filibuster.
So that means they're going to kill
the minimum wage.
Now you could,
it doesn't necessarily mean that.
So why does reconciliation
parliamentary mean nothing?
Well, Republicans passed everything
they wanted through reconciliation
and they didn't care at all,
including a nearly $2 trillion tax
cut for the rich.
Didn't have any debates about
reconciliation or parliamentarian,
anyway it was never
mentioned during the Trump era.
No one cared.
They pass whatever the hell they
wanted, if they had enough votes.
Now, Democrats come into place they
don't actually want
the minimum wage.
The only one who
actually does is Bernie Sanders and
the justice Democrats in the house
everyone else.
I don't know, maybe not fair
to say everyone else, but
most of the Democratic party and
definitely Joe Biden is lying.
They don't actually want
the minimum wage increase.
They've never wanted it increase.
How do I know that?
I could prove it.
The parliamentarian is totally
irrelevant according to Senate
rules and I could paint that is
Senate rules and traditions.
I thought guys cared so
much about Senate traditions.
One of them is that the vice
president in a situation like this,
can overrule the parliamentarian.
So in one second,
you could put it back in the bill.
And the Biden team is saying no,
we don't want to put it
back in the bill.
So I thought,
I thought you were liars.
And I turns out I was right.
And by the way, I told you guys
this before the election,
I told you Biden's not going to do
these things.
Even the simplest ones I said,
even minimum wage,
which they swear up and
down that they're going to do,
I told you,
they're not going to do it.
They're totally beholden to
their donors.
They're not, I told you they were
going to do it and
they aren't going to do it.
So and as today, and
they're choosing not to all.
>> Right,
she should be overruled the Senate
parliamentarian should be.
Some of you are probably wondering,
by the way, did we ever hear about
the Senate parliamentarian once
during the Trump administration?
Did we hear about the Senate
parliamentarian once?
When Trump tried to pass his tax
cuts which of course he
successfully passed through
reconciliation in the Senate.
No, we didn't hear about it because
you know why, when Republicans want
to do something, they get it done.
Unfortunately, they typically want
to get pretty
awful policies passed.
But they don't have discussions
about Senate tradition.
They don't talk about the rules.
They get it done.
And they got those tax cuts for
the rich.
They lowered the top corporate tax
rate from 35% to 21%.
And they did not do away with
corporate tax loopholes,
which means that the effective tax
rate is actually much lower.
That's why you have incredibly
profitable companies like Amazon,
getting away with paying zero in
federal taxes, zero, okay?
>> Okay. >> So real quick Jack hold
on, I'm not done.
Elizabeth MacDonough
is the Senate parliamentarian,
she's not democratically elected,
she is irrelevant.
If Democrats actually wanted $15
an hour minimum wage they could
overrule her as Cenk mentioned.
And Representative Jayapal
mentioned this herself recently.
Let's take a quick look at what
she had to say.
>> The parliamentarian issues and
advisory opinion.
Once the parliamentarian
issues that advisory opinion,
it is up to the chair of the Senate
to decide whether or
not to incorporate that opinion.
It's a small technicality, but
i do think that we've got to use
every tool in our toolbox here.
Whether it is reconciliation,
whether it is ultimately reforming
the filibuster, we're going to need
to deliver on our promise to raise
the wage for 27 million Americans.
And if we're going to make those
promises, we have
to be able to deliver on that.
Because I'll tell you what,
in two years Rachel, when people
vote in the midterms, you're not
going to be able to say, well, I'm
sorry we couldn't raise the minimum
wage because the parliamentarian
ruled that we couldn't do it.
That's not going to fly.
>> Yeah.
>> Americans don't
care about the parliamentarian.
I can't can't believe that this is
even a discussion right now.
Cenk go ahead.
>> It's a lie told by Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris.
Media do your goddamn job.
But he says no Senate traditions.
What are you talking about?
It's an advisory opinion.
The Senate tradition is that
the chair which is
the BP can overrule it.
So you are going to go to the
voters and you are going to say,
okay lets assume am a barbarian.
And its I'm so rude, I'm so
terribly rude ,what's really
helpful to is,
what's not rude is stealing
92 billion dollars from the average
American worker ,I'm going to
explain that now in a second, okay?
But I'm the rude guy, so
lets say that Biden is onto level.
So he's going to go and
make the case, the Democrats
are when we're voting in 22 again.
And they're going to say,
we thought the advisory opinion
of the parliamentarian was more
important than our voters.
That's going to be your case to
the American people.
You told your voters that you will
do a $15 minimum wage.
And by the way, it's immensely
popular in the country, including
in every red state, Republicans
like it, Democrats like it, voters.
The politicians all hate it,
because, of course,
as always corporate donors anyway.
So you're going to go and say,
well, Senate tradition is so
important, but
actually not the ones that I could
use to actually pass this.
I don't like those Senate
traditions.
I like the Senate traditions
of the advisory opinion of
the parliamentarian, and
I like it so much.
I valued over the promise that
I made you.
I valued it over my own voters.
Well, then you're basically telling
your voters,
I don't care about you at all.
You tell me why you're doing
a Joe Biden.
And in the media, if you believe is
ridiculous excuse about
the parliamentarian just to retire,
you're an idiot, you don't know
anything about politics.
Republicans never cared about
the advisory opinion of anyone.
No one would even
dare ask Trump that question.
Don't be ridiculous.
So this is the Democrats saying,
we're corporate stooges and
we lie to you from day one.
Last thing,
I want to come back to that number.
Do you know how many people that
raising the minimum wage order
affect?
Over 30 million Americans.
Ain't what kind of a raise
they would get?
Well, first of all, for the ones
making the current minimum wage,
they wouldn't double their wages.
Wow like, is it going to go
from 100,000 to 200,000 a year?
No, it's going to
go from 15,000 to 30,000.
So you can barely live on 30,000 in
some states in this country, okay?
That would be the one they're
saying, no way,
we're not going to do it.
So now you gotta live on 15,000
after working every
single day with no vacations.
So why do the corporations
not wanted?
Why is the Chamber of Commerce
saying, hey Biden, shut up and
do as you're told by good.
Yes sir, absolutely, sir.
Why is the Chamber of
Commerce saying that?
Because if they raise the wages,
American workers, all of them,
none of them bums don't listen to
Republicans, they're liars.
They're all literally working
for a living.
That's how you will make a wage,
okay?
They would make $92 billion more if
the minimum wages raised,
92 billion every year.
So corporations go, I don't want to
give up the 92 billion,
I want to give it to my executives.
I want to give it to my incredibly
wealthy shareholders.
I don't want to give it to
my employees.
Hey, dogs, corporate dogs who
are the Democrats and
the Republicans, get out there and
tell them that you care about
the parliamentarian [LAUGH].
Hey, dogs of the media,
go tell them the parliamentarian
thing is real.
And all of a sudden you guys
are concerned about it,
even though you never asked about
it before when Trump was in office.
Hey, dogs do as you're told, and
all those dogs are yelping all
over America right now.
They don't give a damn about the
parliamentarian and the only person
who would is a total moron if they
were on the level, but they're not
on the level, they're liars.
They're going to
betray you right now.
They're in the middle of doing it.
That's who they are.