O’Malley Talks Up Minimum Wage Hike, Downplays Dispute Over Immigration

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Thursday reunited with U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez, a former member of the governor’s Cabinet, to make some burritos and talk up the importance of raising the minimum wage.

The event at a Bethesda restaurant was the first time O’Malley (D) had appeared in public with a member of the Obama administration since a dust-up last month over how to handle thousands of unaccompanied migrant children coming across the U.S. border.

Whatever lingering tension remains between the Obama and O’Malley administrations was not on display Thursday, however, as O’Malley and Perez showered one another with praise and spoke about the record of cooperation between the governor and president on numerous other issues.

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