He got the CDC to end the protection as of July….
There was howl from Progressive Democrats ….
While Real Estate and Landlords where happy….
Those Democrats where NOT….
The CDC has revised itself and left the moratorium in place….
Progressives are dancing….
They feel they finally won one….
We have absolutely no idea whether the White House’s effort to halt evictions in Covid danger zones will work. We have no idea if a court will strike it down. We have no idea whether Congress will eventually be forced to pass a new law preventing landlords from booting their tenants during a pandemic.
But what we do know is that progressives in Congress feel emboldened in standing up to the White House, and that should help give new shape to the administration’s relationship with the left on Capitol Hill.
Democratic Reps. Cori Bush (Mo.), Mondaire Jones (N.Y.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Jimmy Gomez (Calif.) and Al Green (Texas) took a victory lap, of sorts, just now outside the Capitol after the White House announced the new eviction moratorium just days after they said they didn’t believe it was possible.
But the undertone of their comments was that they feel as if they now know how to force their leadership and the administration’s hands on critical legislative issues.
We asked AOC after the news conference what she learned about power from this episode:
“I think really what this is about is that we work together, collaborate on our shared values, common interests as much as possible. We’re not here … every time there’s a disagreement that it comes to this and I think we saw that with the negotiation of the American Rescue Plan. When stimulus checks were imperiled during those negotiations, we worked really hard internally to apply that pressure to get it done but frankly, you know, when we’re issuing these warnings, this, this was not new, we have been on the record for weeks and months, sounding the alarm about this, and frankly when we are given no recourse, I think it shows that the power of everyday people and and the political power that everyday people have. When it is absolutely necessary and when it, when it is just, we will do everything that we can.”
After we pressed AOC a bit more, she said this with a smile: “When you have to play hardball, you have to play hardball. And we’re not afraid to do that.”
With tons of must-pass bills and other critical legislation in the next four months, this is an important point for Democrats to absorb.
Bush, who led the protest, put it this way: “Activists are in Congress. So expect things to be different than what maybe people are used to.”…
When he announced this, Biden pretty much admitted that this is likely unconstitutional and he does not truly have the right to do it, but was doing it anyway.
That’s a pretty bold admission. Kudos for honesty I suppose, but imagine if Trump had said something like that.
Biden does NOT have a love affair with Progressives even if you and other Republicans want to tag him as a ‘lefty’…..
In the end?
This may throw this back to Congress and THAT means it’s gone…..
He’s much further to the left than me. I still voted for him, despite all the reservations, because he is not Donald Trump.
That seems to genuinely upset people here more than if I had voted for Trump. People online tend to prefer “black and white.”
YOUR vote IS YOUR vote don’t matter WTF people think…..
“People ain’t just One thing‘….
I’m confused. Who here is upset that CG voted for Biden?
His own Straw Man is. I haven’t seen him post on here though.
As Pres. Biden suggested….
A federal judge suggested Monday that the Biden administration was engaging in legal “gamesmanship” in order to resurrect a pandemic-related eviction ban despite an indication from the Supreme Court that the measure was unlawful….
More…
DSA would neither endorse nor congratulate Joe Biden (which might have been a plus for Biden if it blunted some potential GOP attack ads and talking-points).
The Socialist Party of America (DSA’s ancestor) would not endorse FDR (Norman Thomas got nearly a million votes as the Socialist candidate against FDR & Herbert Hoover in 1932.)
But I consider both FDR and Joe Biden (and for that matter LBJ & Barack Obama) as necessary but not sufficient for what is now called progressivism.
Nothing is possible without the New Deal or the Great Society but they’re insufficient.
However, I think Joe Biden is doing a good job, given the current composition of Congress and the Supreme Court.
I agree with your last sentence DSD….
This is just anecdotal but only about 5% of eviction cases locally have been effected to this moratorium…