Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Sunday that he will continue to push for the federal minimum wage to be increased to $11 as part of the CCP virus stimulus package, down from the $15 per hour minimum proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). The federal minimum wage must be “above the poverty guideline,” Manchin said in an interview with ABC News’s “This Week.” The senator noted that the “base” should be at $11 an hour “so you have the respect and dignity of work.” “And then we index it with inflation to make sure it never gets back in this political conundrum that we have right now,” he added. “It shouldn’t be a political football.” In the days leading up to the vote on Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus proposal, Manchin, who holds a pivotal vote in the Senate Democrats’ slim majority, indicated he would not approve a minimum wage hike to $15 …