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Originally Posted by opendoor
Because they need 60 votes in the Senate to pass bills. They can use reconciliation in a narrow way (and likely will for the COVID relief bill), but the minimum wage portion would have almost surely violated that unless they just made it temporary or something.
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This combined with what AFC stated above - Manchin holds the senate and he is on record, time and time again (as I learned from our friend John Oliver) that he will not vote to remove the filibuster.