U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to reporters in The Senate Reception Room during the second day of Trump’s second impeachment trial in Washington, February 10, 2021.Brandon Bell | Pool | ReutersSenate Democrats will abandon plans to help raise workers’ pay through tax penalties and other economic incentives that some lawmakers had considered as an alternative for hiking the federal minimum wage, according to a person familiar with the matter.Some lawmakers last week floated a “plan B” in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid stimulus bill that would have punished corporations that paid workers below a certain threshold.Senators had …
