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Congress Up and Left, and the Eviction Moratorium Ended.
Our lawmakers should be ashamed to show their faces in their districts.
Well, the August recess for Congress is upon us.
Lawmakers get to go home, make calls to their donors, host high dollar fundraisers, or maybe even go on vacation, living comfortably on their taxpayer funded salaries with top quality healthcare. All while at the same time engaging in the bizarre yet perfectly legal ability to enrich themselves with the stock market and business interests while in power.
Unfortunately, Congress left Washington on Friday without extending the eviction moratorium, in the middle of a pandemic that is once again worsening, and leaving millions of people vulnerable to losing their housing in the coming weeks.
I mean, what can we even say?
Such an abject failure and dereliction of duty to the American people is still, even after all this time, genuinely hard for me to process. Of course, Democrats engaged in their typical theatre, with Nancy Pelosi genuinely believing she can save her own skin by pretending to put in an effort to save it at the 11th hour just as her fellow lawmakers were getting ready to leave. Of course, they’re now wringing their hands, pointing fingers, and doing their very best, as…
