{"id":1006424,"date":"2019-09-24T18:06:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T18:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1006424"},"modified":"2019-09-24T18:06:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T18:06:38","slug":"dnc-on-trump-watering-down-overtime-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trump-watering-down-overtime-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC on Trump Watering Down Overtime Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement after the Trump administration issued a new overtime pay rule that covers millions fewer workers than a rule advanced by President Obama:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMillions of American workers are underpaid and overworked, and the Trump administration apparently wants to keep it that way. By watering down President Obama\u2019s proposed overtime rule, President Trump has made his disdain for workers crystal clear.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen I was labor secretary under President Obama, we actually fought for working families. We made sure more workers benefited from overtime pay, not fewer. Now Trump and Republicans in Congress are betraying working people so they can give more tax breaks to their wealthy friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDemocrats will keep fighting for the wages, benefits, and job security workers deserve. And voters will remember Trump\u2019s betrayal on Election Day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement after the Trump administration issued a new overtime pay rule that covers millions fewer workers than a rule advanced by President Obama: \u201cMillions of American workers are underpaid and overworked, and the Trump administration apparently wants to keep it that way. By watering down President Obama\u2019s proposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC on Trump Watering Down Overtime Rule - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trump-watering-down-overtime-rule\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-24T18:06:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trump-watering-down-overtime-rule\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trump-watering-down-overtime-rule\/\",\"name\":\"DNC on Trump Watering Down Overtime Rule - 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