A warning sign for Democrats attempting the Full Bernie

Hey, Democrats: You really should be petrified of that minimum wage study

Sen. Bernie Sanders proposes legislation for $15 minimum wage.
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How goes the Trump-GOP agenda? Well, pick your meme. "This is fine" certainly works. And you probably can't go wrong with "dumpster fire."

Hardly too harsh an assessment. The two biggest Republican policy priorities, repealing ObamaCare and cutting taxes, seem moribund. And it's not just Democrats and "fake news" media saying this. The IMF has trimmed its forecast of U.S. economic growth because of Washington gridlock, while Goldman Sachs is now telling its clients that "enactment of broad health legislation ... seems unlikely."

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James Pethokoukis

James Pethokoukis is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he runs the AEIdeas blog. He has also written for The New York Times, National Review, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and other places.