Trump’s Top Labor Official Opposes Minimum Wage Increase

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said May 1 that he doesn’t support a change to the federal $7.25 minimum wage, signaling that the Trump administration’s top labor official would advise the president not to sign any bill raising the nationwide pay floor.

“We do not support a change in the federal minimum wage at this time,” Acosta said May 1.

House Democrats are still trying to build enough support to move a bill that would raise the federal minimum from $7.25 to $15 an hour in a series of steps. A group of lawmakers in the party are instead pushing a ...