Victoria, TX (WBAP/KLIP) – Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed another lawsuit against the Biden administration. This time over an executive order issued last month mandating an increase in the minimum wage for federal contractors.
Paxton alleges overreach in the order that raises the wage from $7.25 and hour to $15.00 per hour. Paxton says the increase would harm the state’s economy.
Mississippi and Louisiana joined Paxton in the lawsuit.
The complaint reads: “In pursuit of partisan political objectives, Defendants are unilaterally attempting to impose a radical policy—a dramatic and rapid increase in the minimum wage for federal contractors—with little apparent regard for the widespread havoc on the economy that will result,”
The order impacts nearly 70,000 federal workers and close to 300,000 employees of federal contractors.
In a statement last month Biden said, in part, “This increase will provide those workers and their families a little more breathing room. And because we know that higher wages boost productivity and mean lower job turnover, these orders will allow the government to do its work better and faster,”
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