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Support a $20 federal minimum wage, indexed to inflation.

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PartialFact-checker reviewConfidence: 79%

Promise (2024 Senate campaign): support a $20 federal minimum wage indexed to inflation. Since taking his seat (Dec 2024), Schiff's on-record action is cosponsoring the Raise the Wage Act of 2025, the leading Senate Democratic minimum-wage vehicle, which raises the federal minimum to $17 by 2030 (with post-target indexing). Both primary Senate sources — the Sanders release and the HELP Committee release — name "Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)" among the 30+ cosponsors joining Sanders; the HELP page's cosponsor sentence was verified verbatim. This supports a federal minimum-wage increase with indexing — the direction of the promise — but at $17, below the promised $20, and indexed to median wage rather than inflation. No Senate bill in the 119th Congress sets $20 (the only $20 measures are House bills a Senator cannot cosponsor), so the specific $20/inflation vehicle does not exist in his chamber. He is one of many cosponsors, not the author or leader, so there is no leadership evidence — CHAMPIONED is correctly ruled out. He did part of what he promised (backed a federal minimum-wage raise with indexing) but not the specific $20 level or inflation basis, which is PARTIAL. Not FULL ($17 is not $20; median-wage indexing is not inflation indexing), not ATTEMPTED (he supported a lesser bill rather than pushing a failed $20 measure), and not MISALIGNED (his action is directionally consistent with the promise). Both sources verified reachable, quotes accurate, and the PARTIAL outcome does not overstate the evidence.

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