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"We're gonna push it as quickly and as hard as we can," the Vermont independent said on Thursday. A Senate committee will soon take up a bill that would more than double the minimum wage -- though the legislation's chances of passage are slim. Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said a $17-an-hour minimum wage is needed to help workers keep pace with the rising cost of living across the United States. "I am delighted to announce this morning that on June 14, the Senate HELP Committee will be marking up a bill to raise the minimum wage to $17 an hour over a five-year period," Sanders announced Thursday. The senator's suggestion -- a $2 increase from his 2021 proposal -- is designed to keep pace with inflation, Sanders said in remarks decrying congressional inaction. "The last minimum wage bill passed by Congress was in 2008. You think it's time to raise it?...

A Trump-friendly change to Michigan’s primary process was backed by the national Republican Party, a Michigan GOP official says. ABC News Photo Illustration / Alex Gilbeaux The Republican National Committee had some level of involvement in a plan to implement a change to the nomination process that critics argue benefits former President Donald Trump, Michigan’s Republican Party chair tells ABC News. Michigan Republican Party officials voted behind closed doors Saturday evening to pass a "resolution of intent" that would dole out just 16 of Michigan’s 55 delegates on primary election night, with the remaining 39 delegates chosen through caucuses four days later, according to a draft of the proposal reviewed by ABC News -- a process that could benefit Trump by limiting selection of the lion’s share of delegates to an especially involved group of caucus-goers that is expected to be friendly to the former president. State party Chair Kristina Karamo, who secured Trump’s backing ...