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One of President Biden's top priorities in his first month in office has been passing a

coronavirus relief bill, which makes sense.

I mean, people spent an entire year having to smell their own breaths.

The least they can get in return is some compensation.

Unfortunately, though, to actually get the bill passed, Biden needs the support of the

United States Senate.

And they're about as supportive as a YouTube comments section.

Today, Biden announced a new income limit on who will be getting those $1400 checks,

because moderate Democrats objected to the cost of the bill.

And that's after one of the most popular pieces of the bill has already been stripped out.

President Biden's bid to double the federal minimum wage apparently will not be part of

his COVID relief package.

The Democrats plan to pass the president's plan through a budget process called Reconciliation.

That allows Democrats to pass a big package in the Senate with a simple majority, but

the trade office at the bill can only involve taxing and spending.

The nonpartisan Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonough decided the minimum wage provision

didn't meet that standard.

That means it is going to be impossible for senators, the Democratic senators here, to pass

that bill through the Senate, because there are certainly not the 60 votes necessary to

do it as part of that package.

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