WASHINGTON — Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s openness to a more modest federal minimum hike is being met with skepticism by liberals who are insisting the U.S. Senate take up the $15 an hour provision that most Democrats desire.
Acknowledging “it hadn’t been raised in quite a while,” McConnell said on Tuesday that a discussion on an increase was worthwhile, pointing to a GOP proposal by Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah and Tom Cotton of Arkansas that would lift the minimum wage to $10 an hour over four years.
But the rapid backlash among progressives to McConnell’s float of a possible compromise demonstrates the deep distrust many Democrats have of the GOP leader.
