Suppose Congress Has Just Passed a New Law Regarding the Increase

Suppose Congress has just passed a new law regarding the increase in the federal minimum wage to $18 per hour. The law is rather vague, however, and does not specify when the minimum wage is to be implemented by and if it is to be enforced immediately or on a gradual basis. The agency that is tasked with carrying out the increase in the minimum wage will have ______.

A) implementation authority
B) bureaucratic discretion
C) administrative discretion
D) congressional power