President Joe Biden As progressive House lawmakers urged the government to extend the moratorium, and two of them even slept outside the U.S. Capitol in protest, there was no sign that the federal deportation ban would expire at midnight on Saturday.
After the Biden administration refused to extend the federal eviction ban imposed last September to protect tenants during the pandemic, millions of Americans may be forced to leave their homes.The White House said Thursday that it will not extend the moratorium on the grounds Supreme Court It was decided last month to oppose the extension to July.
House of Representatives Corey Bush Representative of Missouri and Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts Sleeping outside the parliament building Send a message to the federal government on Friday. Bush is ready to camp for the second night on the steps of the building. “I don’t plan to leave before some kind of change happens,” she told reporters.
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It is not clear why this question was left to the last minute.The House of Representatives takes a break with some people on Friday Democratic Party Blame the White House.Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi Said Friday that she thinks it should depend on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Extend the suspension period.
Biden urges Congress, And even state and local governments to resolve the issue of the expiration of the ban, which frustrated the progressives who had failed to collect votes for the renewal of the contract and asked the president for a solution.
On Saturday, Bush and Presley took the lead in writing a letter to Biden, which was signed by six other people, including the House of Representatives. Alexander Ocasio-Cortez Rashida Tlaib in New York and Michigan Ilhan Omar According to Politico, the state government of Minnesota called for “an emergency response from the government.” They wrote: “Extending the ban on deportations is a matter of life and death for the communities we represent.”
California Rep. Maxine Waters calls on Biden to issue an executive order to “extend and extend” the suspension CNN On Saturday, criticized the president for following the Supreme Court’s ruling. “We think the White House is in charge,” she said. “We have families, there may be 11 million families, and they will be evicted.”
senator Elizabeth Warren The Governor of Massachusetts reminded the Chamber of Commerce in his speech at the rare infrastructure bill meeting on Saturday that “we are only a few hours away from a completely preventable housing crisis.”
Warren added in a tweet: “We have a responsibility to immediately extend the eviction order to ensure the safety of American families and to give states time to distribute emergency rental assistance.”
As approximately 11.4 million Americans defaulted on rent, state and local officials further exacerbated the eviction problem, and they slowed the allocation of the $46.5 billion in rent assistance passed by Congress.
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