President-elect Donald Trump says there’s a “level at which you could” raise the federal minimum wage, but he would want to speak to governors first during an exclusive interview with Meet the Press.
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Dude im from south america. But this woman i cannot stand her! Her bias, hate and just terrible body language just gives me the creeps man!!
Self employment is wear its at. Don’t make these lazy blue collared guys cash for them. Get your own clients, or buy your own equipment but don’t be a tool for the “man” that can be replaced when its broken.
California significantly raised their wages. People still can’t afford to live there. The more you make, the more they take. Especially having a horrible governor like Newsome.
From 2008 to 2014 California minium wage was 8.25 for six years and cost of living still went up. They have to raise it every year since to keep up. Cost of living goes up no matter if you raise it or not.
@@reaganthai9529blame liberal California
Governors make changes to minimum wage, owners just fire workers that want higher pay…
If you cant live in California then please move to one of your republican controlled southern states of degenerates, we dont want you here. It is expensive because we don’t want you here, its only for people who can afford to be here. Just like how they raise property taxes on good neighborhoods to get rid of rift rafts. I mean I like to live in Hawaii but I cant afford it
Of course he won’t do it.
I like how you liberal clowns have no clue what raising the minimum wage does to the economy. If wages go up, prices do as well. Simple as that. What he said at the end is true, there are places where the cost of living is different compared to places like California, New York. Some cities within those states have cheaper cities to dwell in. There is a lot to consider when raising the federal minimum wage.
You have had more clips of trump before he has been inaugurated than 4 years of biden….wonder why
They must like making 7.25$, they supported him for a 2nd term!
He won’t have a choice after his tariffs increases prices on everything.
First off I haven’t seen a job offer for less then 10$ a hour since before Covid. Second it’s just the cost of living that needs to go down
Its 15$ in MA😂😊
Trump won’t do it. If you’re making minimum wage, Trump doesn’t have your best interest in mind.
@@2AM_Radio keeping minimum wage as low as possible is in everyone’s best interest.
Trump does care about poor Americans. In fact he actually won voters with $50k or less income over Harris. A Republican hasn’t done that in forever. He did it bc his tax policies directly benefitted both poor and working class Americans the most. On the campaign trail he promised no tax on tips and no tax on overtime. That is GENUIS! And it’ll help the working class. What rich billionaire who hates poor people does that?
And I can attest to his intentions as I’m very middle class and trump’s policies directly affected my parents’ businesses. We had much more income and purchasing power under Trump than Obama, and especially more so than Biden. In fact without the trump tax cuts, poor families would literally be starving right now. This Biden inflation has destroyed the middle class and the American dream.
TRUMP VANCE 2024
As usual NO answers to anything.
The leaders of everywhere will never help anyone but themselves.
He doesn’t need to do it. Minimum wage is 7.25 and people making almost 3 times that struggle. Also many jobs pay 5+ more than that anyway. It would just give companies more reason to raise prices.
Okay Mr Trump. What state can you live on $7.25 an hour? Curious to know…
He’s right, but I’m in Oklahoma where cost of living is low like that, but $13.05/hr barely feeds me and pays car payment, rent, and insurance. Forget having any kind of life. You’d better not even think about having a kid.
This lady is asking questions but not listening. Before he can even answer a question she’s butting in and trying to over talk him. So glad he called her out on being biased
MINIMUM WAGE DOESN’T NEED TO RAISE MINIMUM EFFORT NEEDS TOO. minimum wage is for highschool jobs. Not careers
He should look into Florida it’s expensive to live out there raise it higher bro like ny
All trump does is lie and benifit himself and his elite buddies .
Although he may have a point, we Americans cannot be living on pocket change week by week. Cost of living is what needs to come down instead of increasing prices and fueling up inflation!
RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE TO $40.00 PER HOUR…………and watch Woke Liberal CEOs and Woke Liberal corporations BEG YOU NOT TO DO IT 🙂 Seriously. Go $40 bucks an hour and watch Chuck Schumer be against it. He’d be the Party of the Rich then.
Wanna be the president ? Just be a yes man and you should be good.
He is dumb and too late minimum wage is $15 hrly
Its,$15 hrly here in va a Wendy’s combo is $12.99 because they get paid $15 hrly its been $15 hrly here for 6 years
Mississippi do have a lower cost of living, but when you don’t make the money everything is to expensive so raise the minimum wage to at least 15 per hour.. I live in Mississippi..
He wants the credit for it.
Raising the federal wage wouldn’t impact a lot of states that have their own wage that’s higher than federal. For example i don’t see why cost of living would be affected here in California when our minimum wage is already $17 an hour, not 1 single person here makes anything less than that including service industry
If the numbers work, do it. If it doesn’t, don’t do it. Right now, it doesn’t make sense.
Americans really voted for this man. No really.
It’s nice to finally have a president who knows what he’s taking about
Americans don’t need a higher minimum wage. They need a finance class that teaches them how to save, invest, and not spend money on things that adds no long term value to their life.
Teach em’ Tyrone!
$25 hr should be minimum
good one buddy
Crazy eyes.
I know this is not going to happen & in some cases not even practical but it needs to be $25/hr. That’s 48k a year. That’s around what I make & after rent, utilities, car payment, student loan payment, gas, food, etc. I’m basically paycheck to paycheck. Imo in certain parts of the country where the cost of living is lower, I would move there if the minimum wage was 25 so I’d have a chance to get ahead in life & those areas would never have a shortage of workers quite the opposite, it’d be super competitive.
This outlet isban embarrassment. But hey, as long YOU’RE making money, right? Pathetic.
Trump will make America great again 🇺🇸
Raising minimum wage is not the answer. That means everything increases as well. That’s how it works. God help us
stop raising wages, for once at least decrease taxes to help “all” americans and not just the minimum wagers
atleast make it $10 an hour!
I would love to sit down with her. Ask her questions and debate with her
What a joke! Trump raise the status of at least $200 a month for SSDI recipients. You people drive nice cars and own houses. The Lord is watching.
I rather him say idk and I will consider it than sit up here and lie
if they raise the minimum wage, u ruin small mom and pop stores who cant afford to compete w/ companies like walmart. walmart can afford to raise it to as high as they want while the small businesses will get fked. this will work against us.
I don’t know anyone who earns federal minimum wage? Do you you?
The higher Minimum wage is the hire the cost of living goes up. Maryland learned their lesson from that the hard way.
Trump makes alot of sense!
its already done donald trump has no say on it will go into affect next year january 1st 2025 lol 😂
Crazy it’s like the rich get richer and the poor get poorer… we should be a prosperous country heck even people are realizing it’s not even worth it to continue education given the fact
Give tax breaks to businesses who pay a living wage.
We give tax breaks over green investments and all sorts of other things, but we dont have any tax breaks to incentivize employers to pay better.
Trump is a good man to come on NBC which he did so much for and then got all of the nonsense and hate back
When the left wants to raise minimum wage: Ummmm so you want prices to go up???
When the right wants to raise the minimum wage: Yes finally someone who understands
Left wing or right wing it’s the same bird, yall are all getting played
They need to raise it to 20.00 hr
how about lower the ceo and executives salaries
He is very good in this interview,
We don’t need a wage increase. We need a rent cap for businesses and people. That’s what’s causing everything to be so expensive and what is causing people to not be able to afford to live. Why does nobody talk about that?
It’s a trap. Don’t do it, President Trump… Minimum wage is probably not even necessary. No one would do my job, which is manual labor, for five bucks an hour. I would, however, do the job with 30% less, not that I’d want to. Minimum wage is for entry level & students…
The real problem : everyone thinking more money will fix it and letting political figures talking you into higher wages will fix everything if you vote for them ….
The solution : hey ugh guys.. people… why dont you make the people you voted for …. like bring the cost of living down…. ?
I make $19 / hour, that’s only like $660 or less after taxes per week. That’s not enough to live when rent is $2,300 a month for a 3 bed apartment. It’s just ridiculous.
How come everyone questions whether or not minimum wage should be raised, but no one questions what can be done to reduce cost of living?
If you reduce cost of living, you reduce inflation, you reduce demand for increase in minimum wages, you reduce business concerns and costs, you reduce the chance of employees having less hours, and you contribute to a greater more manageable & stable economy as a whole. It benefits everyone. The only one who it would not benefit are corporations that exploit people’s cost of living (e.g., Black Rock and Housing).
Wages haven’t kept up with inflation since the 70s according to the department of labor.
Raising the minimum wage generally does not help. Newsome raised the fast food wage to 20 dollars, and lots of people lost their jobs and even more people cut their fast food eating altogether.
Raising the wage a little bit at a time can help if there are other factors also supporting the economy. But don’t be like Newsome and go 5-10 dollars at once!
It’s not the CA wages that are the problem, it’s the insane number of taxes they’re forced to pay. That’s why businesses are foreclosing left and right…
Look, I say this. It really won’t matter if the minimum wage comes up if the prices of things keep rising. Sorry if that makes people upset, but it’s the truth. Go for the grocery prices, places to live, Lower them down first. Then see about upping the Minimum Wage
$280 a week for anyone making $7 an hour, I don’t know anywhere in the US that is livable
Matthew 19:29
“And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.”
King James Version (KJV)
And other words “NO” these Republican Governors don’t want the raise the minimum wage
Should have no minimum wage
It’s not a joke that minimum wage is $7. It’s a joke that the dollar doesn’t have the same buying power it used to. But keep printing more money that should fix it..
Making 7.25 an hour is an embarrassment, but setting that as the minimum bar that separates workers and slaves is just as embarrassing.
Although the minimum wage is $7.75 youd be hard pressed not to find a place hiring at at least $10/hr. No one is able to hire at minimum.
The minimum wage is a socialist concept that prices low-skilled workers out of a job. (In a free market, the government has no business telling employers what wages they must offer for prospective employees.)
https://youtu.be/6TGkfjaxFWs?si=Ml75PLr7PpJJJrRi
What if minimum wage had to keep up with inflation
They did pretty good together, i like this duo tbh.
That lady has a crazy look in her eyes
He’s absolutely right. You can’t raise the federal minimum wage too crazy becuase you’ll put places out of business.
If you are a grown person that’s not working for recreation purposes, but is depending on $7.25/h, you need to sit down and reevaluate your life right now.
Is this guy for real!! If restaurants are going out of business, then maybe make food prices lower rather than letting these food oligopolies make record profits. Make the price of utility low, but lowering prices of oil and gas and stopping those oil companies from making ridiculous profits. California has one of the highest installation of renewable energy, but why isnt the cost of electricity going down? On top of that this president wants to cut corporate taxes. Brilliant!! Even california minimum wage is nothing, given the cost of living there. This is just sick!
Besides the cost of living else where is low is not a justification. There are 3 basic things an American uses. FOOD, ELECTRICITY AND FUEL for work. None of these 3 things have come down throughout US.
This is my thing let’s give him $7.25 and give him three kids and a wife and see if he could live off 725!!! he don’t care what the rest of us make because he’s a millionaire on top of a millionaire. He ain’t gotta worry about money !!! he ain’t gotta worry about food. He ain’t gotta worry about bills. He ain’t gotta worry about nothing. He don’t give a crap what we make how we survive he don’t care about the cost of living. He don’t care about inflation because none of that registers to him because it doesn’t impact him on a daily basis.
Lol republicans dont want to.
There is NO PLACE ON EARTH WHERE $7.25 ALLOWS YOU TO LIVE IN ANYTHING BUT POVERTY!
Nobody makes the federal minimum wage anymore besides people who make tips.
Isn’t it sad? Billionaires pay no taxes and won’t give workers cost of living wage. My last 10 yrs of working before retirement was 8.25/hr no benefits only pay for work as a state tested nurses aide during tRump administration.
Honestly people thats on minunum wage on that weed or a minor other then that your azz shouldnt be working mininum wage jobs
Min wage should be adjusted every year for inflation. Embarrassing that it isn’t
Just get rid of the Fed, institute full reserve banking, and ban interest rates.
No need for the government to even have a minimum wage. Companies that actually need workers will pay a competitive wage to attract employees
When you increase the pay of fast-food workers at establishments like McDonald’s to $20 an hour, it creates a ripple effect across various industries. For instance, if McDonald’s employees used to earn $10 an hour and plumbers earned between $15 and $25, raising the minimum wage leads to higher pay expectations for skilled workers as well. Plumbers might then charge $25-30 an hour to remain competitive.
The problem is that raising the minimum wage often results in increased prices for goods and services. For example, you might see everyday items in stores costing an additional $1 to $3. So when you go shopping and buy ten items, your bill could easily increase by $100 to $300.
Sure, you might be making $3 more per hour, which sounds great on the surface. Over a standard 40-hour workweek, that translates to an extra $120 a month. However, if the cost of living increases significantly – as a result of wage hikes – that extra income may be negated by the higher prices you’re facing.
This is why inflation can be problematic. Once the minimum wage is raised, it rarely goes back down, and the cycle of rising costs can erode any benefits workers might have gained from the increase. It’s essential to consider these economic dynamics when discussing wage increases and their broader impact on society.
He doesn’t know or he knows they all know Republicans. They’re the ones that make your city suffer the most by raising your city taxes and raising your rent and the cost of your living in your city every year. He knows that’s why they don’t build houses for you in your city and that’s why Oxnard California ranks third as being the brokest
Stop raising minimum wage and start lowering cost of living
Bad idea! Costs will go up!
Minimum wage laws without a corresponding maximum profit law results in the increased wages being passed on to the consumers.
Trump thinks minimum wage workers make too much. What a crock of shyte.
Everything gets inflated with minimum wage raise. You lose more money than you were making before in the end. Americans just don’t know math or economics.
Funny how they cant ask these questions to Biden or Harris
The government could seriously care less. They want the majority of society to be poor and have to work their entire lives. How else would they get their tax money?
Washington DC has highest minimum wage for non tipped employees at $17.50 per hour, he can’t tell the truth
LOOK AT HER FACE THAT STARE
Trump is right. Also, why didn’t they ask Biden that?