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AOC Urges Biden Administration to 'Actually Try' to Extend Eviction Ban
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August 3, 2021
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2:38Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined protesters camping outside the US Capitol who are calling on the Biden administration to issue an immediate extension of the eviction moratorium.
Ocasio-Cortez has joined with Rep. Cori Bush, who is organizing the protest, to sit outside on the House steps several times since it began.
"Our request here is to try and ask them to actually try, instead of citing what they believe is going to going to be a defeat," Ocasio-Cortez said, referring to the Biden administration.
"Why don't we actually try?" she said.
The White House is pressing state and local governments to swiftly adopt policies to protect renters after an eviction moratorium expired over the weekend, potentially pushing millions of Americans out of their homes.
In a statement on Monday, the White House emphasized that the federal government has provided $46.5 billion to keep renters in their homes. But it accused states and cities of being “too slow to act,” preventing that aid from making its way to tenants whose livelihoods have been upended by the pandemic.
The focus on states comes as President Joe Biden faces stinging criticism, including from some in his own party, that he was was slow to address the end of the moratorium.
Some people were at risk of losing their homes as soon as Monday. But the White House insists there is only so much it can do on its own and that state and local leaders need to step up and get the aid out.
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