Rep. Rashida Tlaib said the federal minimum wage should be raised to $20 an hour.
“Big fights like this one, $15. When we started it, it should have been $15,” the Michigan Democrat said in a video posted by America Rising on Monday. “Now I think it should be $20 … It should be $20 an hour. $18-20 an hour.”
Tlaib said the higher minimum was because the cost of “a lot of things” has gone up.
WATCH: @RashidaTlaib calls for a $20 Minimum Wage. pic.twitter.com/tKsjOXDhIj
— America Rising (@AmericaRising) July 22, 2019
Tlaib, 42, has been on the front lines of the “Fight for $15.” In 2018, the congresswoman was arrested during a protest in support of a national fast food workers walkout to demand a $15 per hour minimum wage.
“These corporations are making billions off of our blood and sweat,” then-candidate Tlaib said. “That’s the most American thing you can do today: to push back, because they are pushing our children into poverty, because we deserve better.”
This week, video surfaced of a screaming Tlaib being forcibly removed from a Trump event in 2016.
