Congress Let The Eviction Moratorium End!

Cori Bush sleeps on the Capitol stairs.

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The Eviction Moratorium expired on July 31, 2021 at 11:59pm.

Now it appears that folks who couldn't pay their rent on time are facing possible eviction from their properties. Struggling families are taking hits because of the pandemic. Estimated 11 million families could be forced out of their homes due to the Congress allowing the moratorium to fall.

Over 645,000 Americans are dead from the coronavirus. 

Do you really need a bunch of do nothing lawmakers who do performance art instead legislating?

The Squad complains yet they're not putting a bill forward. Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) do performance art. 

Instead of drafting a bill or a resolution, they camp outside the U.S. Capitol.

Mind you that Bush, Tlaib, Pressley, Ocasio-Cortez, Bowman and Omar have private security and voted against funding the U.S. Capitol security and getting Afghanistan translators out of the war zones. They also threaten to oppose the bipartisan infrastructure bill because it's not progressive enough.

We already have fascist Karens in the Republican Party, don't make me call these folks the socialist Karens.

They are calling out President Joe Biden for not doing enough. Again, the Supreme Court banned the White House from doing anything. These dumbass progressive lawmakers in the Democratic Party act like Biden has unilateral powers to stop evictions from happening.

Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday blamed Democrats – both in the House of Representatives and at the White House – for allowing the eviction moratorium to expire, as millions of American families are at risk of being kicked out of their homes. 

Eviction moratorium expires at midnight. Our movement is growing. Tag your Rep. The House must reconvene and #ExtendTheMoratorium or @POTUS @CDCgov could extend it tonight.

We need all hands on deck.@AOC@AyannaPressley pic.twitter.com/LcQ8YanPP5

— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) July 31, 2021

We’ve been outside of the Capitol since last night demanding that our Democratic-controlled government take action to save millions from eviction. We have until midnight.

Thank you, @ewarren, for supporting our push on the Senate floor and joining us outside. Let’s keep pushing. pic.twitter.com/8BYZgBIvH3

— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) July 31, 2021

It’s 1 AM. Our solidarity is strong and our numbers are growing.

Millions are at risk of being removed from their homes, and a Democratic-controlled government has the power to stop it.

Extend the eviction moratorium now. pic.twitter.com/Rt0LFgViAN

— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) July 31, 2021

"The House and House leadership had the opportunity to vote to extend the moratorium, and there was frankly a handful of conservative Democrats in the House who threatened to get on planes rather than hold this vote," she said on CNN "State of the Union." "We have to really just call a spade a spade. We cannot, in good faith, blame the Republican Party when House Democrats have the majority."  

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in June to allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep its eviction moratorium in place until July 31, saying that Congress would have to authorize any further extension. But the White House still waited a month until the day before the House adjourned to release a statement asking Congress to extend the moratorium, Ocasio-Cortez said. 

A member of the House Financial Services Committee, which has jurisdiction over housing, she told CNN’s Jake Tapper that representatives had been pressing the House Secretary and the Biden administration for their stance on extending the eviction moratorium, but "they were not being forthright about that advocacy and that request until the day before the House adjourned."

"The House was put into a needlessly difficult situation," Ocasio-Cortez said, arguing her sentiment has been echoed by Financial Services Chairwoman, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who rushed to draft a bill that would have extended the moratorium through the end of 2021. The bill failed to pass. 

CNN's @jaketapper: Who's to blame for the eviction moratorium expiring?

Rep. @AOC : "There was, frankly, a handful of conservative Democrats in the House that threatened to get on planes rather than hold this vote and we have to really just call a spade a spade." #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/FXW7o1SIOD

— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) August 1, 2021

Despite the House of Representatives adjourning for the next seven weeks, Ocasio-Cortez said every member is on a 24-hour callback notice to Washington, D.C. in anticipation of the bipartisan infrastructure bill, as negotiations on the package still continue in the Senate. 

Bush, Omar and Pressley should have spent more time writing a bill instead of doing showboating. They each are paid $174,000 to write legislation not be activists.

"We have all left town with plans to come back within 24 hours if necessary. And I believe the expiration of the eviction moratorium and having 11 million Americans – one out of every six renters – at risk of being kicked out of their homes is worth coming back and triggering that 24-hour notice," Ocasio-Cortez said. "We cannot leave town without doing our job."

The American Rescue Plan allocated an additional $21.5 billion for Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) that can be used by renters to cover arrears and make landlords whole. That added to the $25 billion allocated under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, brings the total amount of assistance available to more than $46 billion. 

Out of the $46 billion, Ocasio-Cortez said just $3 billion has gone out to help renters and small ‘mom and pop’ landlords.  Money was handed over to state and local municipalities and each individual governor is responsible for establishing programs to get emergency rental assistance out in time. 

"I think, in some states, some governors and state administrations might be slow walking this process to get it out. In other states, there’s the administrative burden of setting it up. But there are states and municipalities who have been getting it right. Frankly, those state governments need to get it together, but we cannot kick people out of their homes when our end of the bargain has not been fulfilled." 

A report released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in March indicated that 11 million renter and homeowner households were significantly overdue on their regular housing payments as of December 2020, placing them at heightened risk of losing their homes to foreclosure or eviction over the coming months. As of July 5, roughly 3.6 million people in the U.S. said they faced eviction in the next two months, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey.

Biden said Thursday that the administration’s hands are tied after the Supreme Court signaled the moratorium would only be extended until the end of the month. He called on Congress to swiftly pass legislation to extend the date. Racing to respond, Democrats strained to rally the votes early Friday. 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) implored colleagues to pass legislation extending the deadline, calling it a "moral imperative," to protect renters and also the landlords who are owed compensation.

But after hours of behind-the-scenes wrangling throughout the day, Democratic lawmakers had questions and could not muster support to extend the ban even a few months. An attempt to simply approve an extension by consent, without a formal vote, was objected to by House Republicans.