Rep. Cori Bush says Congress needs to work to make sure "people have a footing" after new eviction moratorium ends
CBSN
Congresswoman Cori Bush is calling on lawmakers to work to make sure that "people have a footing" after the new eviction moratorium ends. Bush, who was once "houseless" herself, said on CBSN Wednesday that Congress needs to look at what it can do right now to make sure that after the moratorium expires on October 3 it has "exhausted" government money available to help people.
"This has bought Congress some time to see what it is that we need to do," Bush said. "One issue that we have is this 40 plus billion dollars that is sitting in those state and those local government coffers that we need to get out to the people. We need to get it out and see where we are, believing that this will help to get the country back on track as far as those that are possibly facing evictions." During the pandemic, Congress approved over $46 billion in rental assistance for families affected by the pandemic. But Bush said discrepancies in application lengths and qualifications have bottlenecked local and state governments from processing and distributing the funds. As of the end of June, tenants in need had received only $3 billion of the funds.Billions of cicadas are emerging across about 16 states in the Southeast and Midwest. Periodical cicadas used to reliably emerge every 13 or 17 years, depending on their brood. But in a warming world where spring conditions arrive sooner, climate change is messing with the bugs' internal alarm clocks.
Senate Democrats to unveil package to protect IVF as party makes reproductive rights push this month
Washington — A group of Senate Democrats is set to unveil a new package to protect access to IVF on Monday, as the party makes a push around reproductive rights this month — two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.