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Trump Brings Back an Obama Era Policy. Sort of.
Under Obama, a conservative judge ruled it unconstitutional.
And with the 2020 election looming the Trump administration is willing to do anything to ensure that bad economic news doesn’t impact their goal of securing a second term.
Well, desperate times call for desperate measures and the Trump administration has decided that resurrecting an Obama era policy that was effectively killed by a conservative judge and Trump’s election, is just the perfect distraction from an impending economic downturn.
From Daily Kos:
The Obama administration tried to raise the threshold to which salaried workers are eligible for overtime from the current level of $23,660 up to $47,476, meaning that a lot of workers would suddenly get either more time or more pay.
That got blocked by a conservative judge, and now the Trump administration plans to propose an increase to $35,308 — which sounds good, if you don’t realize that $47,476 had been on the table, so everyone earning between those two numbers will now be left out.
It’s an advance over the status quo, sure, but a big step back from what the status quo would have been if right-wing groups hadn’t sued to block the…
