The statement Hawley put out could’ve been written by Sanders, too, as it bore his signature mix of working-class virtue signaling and factual inaccuracy.

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Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri proposed a bill Tuesday that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, his latest move to frame himself as a new kind of pro-worker Republican.