House Democrats seek to move past rifts with minimum wage bill | TheHill

Progressives pushed for more stringent health and humanitarian standards for holding migrants in custody, but Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiDurbin responds to Trump tweet: 'Thank goodness' Omar made it to United States Sanders: Pelosi is being 'a little bit' too tough on Ocasio-Cortez Pelosi: Trump's attack on Democratic lawmakers reaffirms his plan to make 'America white again' MORE (D-Calif.) ultimately caved to demands from centrists that the House take up a bipartisan Senate bill that didn’t go as far as liberals wanted.After Pelosi minimized the influence of four progressive freshmen who voted against the House Democrats’ bill in a New York Times interview, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezHillary Clinton responds to Trump tweets telling Dem lawmakers to 'go back' to their countries Trump doubles down after telling Democratic congresswomen to 'go back' to their countries #RacistInChief takes off on Twitter after Trump tells Dems to go back where they 'came from' MORE (D-N.Y.) fired back by suggesting that the Speaker was engaging in a “singling out of newly elected women of color.”But despite the progressive tensions that initially appeared to threaten the passage of an annual defense policy bill, House Democrats ultimately approved the legislation on Friday with only eight liberal defections.Given that raising the minimum wage is a key plank of their party platform, House Democratic leaders are trying to ensure that the legislation secures the votes broadly across the caucus as with other signature bills like for pay equity, government and ethics reform, and giving young undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship.The decision to include the amendment from Murphy and O’Halleran comes after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025 would give 17 million workers a raise and lift 1.3 million people out of poverty.