Amid rising prices and stock market uncertainty in early April 2025, claims that U.S. President Donald Trump signed a new executive order to raise the federal minimum wage to $25 per hour ...

including Executive Order 14026, which had increased the minimum wage for federal contractors. Signed on April 27, 2021, by then-President Joe Biden, Executive Order 14026 mandated that federal ...

including Executive Order 14026’s substantial increase to the minimum wage for federal government contractors and subcontractors. The March 14 Executive Order puts to rest continuing legal ...

A viral video falsely claims President Trump raised the federal minimum wage to $25 an hour ... to rely on taxpayer-funded public services in order to avoid economic hardship." ...