Politics
Pelosi Scraping for Votes to Extend Virus Eviction Moratorium
- Speaker offers extension to mid-October as compromise
- Senate also needs to act as moratorium expires Saturday
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought to scrape together enough votes to extend a national moratorium on renter evictions before it expires Saturday, a move requested by President Joe Biden that Democrats say is desperately needed to keep families and children from the streets.
House Democratic leaders spent late Thursday and early Friday putting pressure on lawmakers to pass an extension but hadn’t convinced some moderates skeptical about keeping the ban until December. Pelosi floated a compromise of extending the moratorium until mid-October rather than December as was originally proposed.