Sens. Cotton, Romney to propose raising federal minimum wage to $10 with phased approach

Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Mitt Romney, R-Utah, are proposing legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $10 an hour, coupled with an E-Verify system to ensure employers hire only legally-authorized workers.

SEN. TOM COTTON: [On COVID-19 stimulus] "There are a lot of earmarks in here. Democrats are bringing back wasteful earmark spending and they’re doing it with a vengeance in this bill. The bill spends hundreds of millions of dollars on states that haven’t lost any money. States that have had surpluses in the last year. [It] spends tens of billion dollars on schools, not this year, when the schools need it may need it most, but in future years. That has nothing to do with getting kids back to school this year.