‘Who Could Have Predicted This?’: Crenshaw Responds to Sanders’ Campaign Cutting Hour

‘Who Could Have Predicted This?’: Crenshaw Responds to Sanders’ Campaign Cutting Hours After Raising Wages

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Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) mocked the “poetic justice” of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) campaign being forced to make staffing changes after raising their minimum hourly wage.
As IJR previously reported, Sanders’ campaign has been in turmoil over wage disputes within his campaign’s workers union. The self-described democratic socialist vowed to pay his campaign staff the equivalent of a $15 minimum hourly wage. However, given the grueling hours that many campaign workers must put in, many salaried employees were working well over 40 hours per week, making their hourly wage below $15.
In response to the chaos coming from his unionized campaign, Sanders made the decision to put a cap on the number of hours an employee can work during a given week.
Crenshaw – who has been railing against House Democrats for voting to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour – called it “poetic justice” that Sanders’ campaign is having to cut hours for their staff in order to maintain the $15 minimum.
During an interview with “Fox and Friends” on Monday morning, Crenshaw outlined the irony of Sanders’ position.
Crenshaw’s comments:

As Crenshaw noted, the nonpartisan CBO found that a $15 minimum wage could cost millions of jobs and decrease the annual family income of minimum wage earners.