Posted on 07/31/2021 3:40:11 AM PDT by 11th_VA
As House Democratic leaders struggle to find enough party support to extend an eviction moratorium, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is advocating a temporary fix, urging the Biden administration to act unilaterally to help the nation's most vulnerable renters.
The Speaker said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which has instituted a ban on evictions through the end of Saturday, should extend the deadline further, giving House Democrats more time to codify the extension in legislation.
"I think this is something that we'll work out. It isn't about any more money - the money is there, resting in localities and governors' offices across the country," Pelosi said Friday morning during a press briefing in the Capitol. "So we'd like the CDC to expand the moratorium. That's where it can be done."
The remarks come as Pelosi and other Democratic leaders are scrambling to locate the votes to extend the eviction moratorium legislatively - a request that President Biden made only Thursday.
The Rules Committee considered the topic on Friday morning, debating a proposal sponsored by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), head of the Financial Services Committee, which initially would have extended the moratorium through the end of the year.
But a number of moderate Democrats are opposed to the bill - one put the number of Democratic opponents at 14 - citing the length of the extension. That opposition led Democratic leaders to shrink the window of the benefit to expire on Oct. 18, although it remains unclear if that concession is enough to win the support of the centrist holdouts…
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Since when did the CDC have the “powers” to do this in the first place?
I think SCOTUS said they don’t have the power. But gave them til the end of July to fix it legislatively
They had a month to do something. Oh, yeah - insurrection hearings.
Eviction moratorium to expire Saturday as House leaves town without passing extension
Hmmm. Thanks for the info. I sure haven’t seen any evidence of their trying to fix it.
“”- the money is there, resting in localities...””
Good ol’ Nazzi; always ready to give away other people’s money.
Never.
Re: 2 - Let’s think this through.
Pelosi is asking the CDC to extend the moratorium, so the Congress can get legislation together.
The CDC extends the moratorium.
SCOTUS then enjoins the CDC from extending the moratorium.
What do you think will get reported by the media?
What will the media report. Trump bad. Insurrection.
Wait...Pelosi says that Joe can’t forgive student debt by an unelected bureaucracy can forgive debt?
They don’t. Plain and simple.
The vast preponderance of things that are enforced upon us are not even laws.
It is time to stop sitting in the back of the bus in so many different ways.
We can’t rely on Republican congresspeople to step up and push back, but the real fight is at the state level. We need to apply more pressure to Republican governors to exert state sovereignty and stop this madness.
There are only a small handful fighting — Abbott and DeSantis are examples — but we have the majority of the governorships in the country. More need to step up and join the struggle.
The cdc, and all branches of government, do NOT have the right to invalidate a valid legal contract. They do not have the right to force a land owner to provide an apartment, heat, light, maintenance, insurance, without compensation.
There is absolutely no doubt about this.
I doubt that SCOTUS is going to do anything to stop this.
Essentially, the CDC is now in the business of seizing property to replace the owners with government-sanctioned squatters. It reminds me of the passages in Dr. Zhivago, when the doctor returns to Moscow to find that the Marxist government has moved people into every room of his house, which they are busy trashing.
Essentially, this anti-eviction thing is exactly the same. Probably the majority of the tenants have been living off of government benefits (UBI) and simply not paying their rent. So you take away the capital (property, in this case) of people who have worked and simply redistribute it as government largess among people who haven’t.
Got a problem with that, comrades?
My first thought was what gives the CDC authority to do this? Liberals always just assume absolute governmental omnipotence; the government can do it because it has the power.
Nothing at all. Some POS lowlife, unelected, bureaucrat just decreed America can stop paying their landlords - for any reason or no reason whatsoever... and everyone went along with it.
In modern America, some agency.gov dick can now just fk over all landlords and an entire industry by snapping his grubby fingers.
Which tells me we need to start chopping some fingers off. For real.
1. Renter pays no rent.
2. Landlord goes broke and probably files bankruptcy.
3. Bank repossess property at bargain basement price.
The bank does well. The bank also donates to the DNC. The corporate state is alive and well.
Anything that keeps Dems from a tough vote is okay in the new regime.
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