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Posted: 2019-07-18T16:38:12Z | Updated: 2019-07-18T16:38:12Z

The Democratic-led House passed a bill Thursday that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025, delivering a major, though mostly symbolic, victory to the Fight for $15 movement.

The bill was approved 231-199, mostly along party lines, with six Democrats and three Republicans crossing the aisle.

The bill faces all but certain death in the Republican-controlled Senate ; even if it survived there, it would require the approval of President Donald Trump to become law. Nonetheless, the House vote marked the first sign of progress in years on hiking the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25 per hour and hasnt budged since 2009.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the proposal a well-earned raise for workers toiling on the bottom rungs of the economy.

House Democrats are here to deliver on their promise to hardworking Americans, Pelosi said at a press conference, flanked by fellow representatives and low-wage workers.

She added, in reference to those workers: We would not be here without the outside mobilizing.