Last week, the Senate finally passed its massive COVID-19 relief bill. Dubbed the American Rescue Act, the bill makes serious and tangible steps toward helping the millions of Americans devastated by the pandemic by expanding thechild tax credit into a direct payment and subsidizing insurance premiums for millions of low-to-medium income Americans.

Still, infuriating compromises were made to assure the bill’s passage. Concessions to moderate Democrats like West Virginia’s Joe Manchin led to millions of Americans losing access to $1,400 direct payments, even if they qualified for the previous rounds of checks under Trump.

And, most disgustingly, the fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage increase was abandoned by Democrats after it was ruled outside the bounds of budget reconciliation by the Senate parliamentarian. By failing to fight to include the raise in this bill, Democratic leadership has essentially doomed its chance of passing under current Senate rules. Raising the minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour would now require sixty votes to circumvent the filibuster, an unlikely prospect in the incredibly polarized Senate.