distribute. have you investigated this? i mean, why is this money not being used? well, the government s doing a poor job of distributing the money, and that should be no surprise because the government often does a poor job in many things but particularly when it comes to providing relief to phobes. that s what we re to folks. what we re seeing is an attempt to skirt their inability to administer the relief in an effective way by blaming or at least giving the cdc the authority to roll out these moratoriums. so really we re seeing a blame game. arthel: so stacy johnson-cosby, she wants the moratorium lifted. she s with the national housing provider coalition. here s what she had to say about this. we didn t need the eviction eviction moratorium because we re business people. we want to keep our customers happy, and we we also want to collect the money. what happens is when they did
but at least we will have the ability, if we have to keep this going for a month at least. i hope longer. dana: if people are working and the economy is getting back together and they know this is lawless, why try to continue this evictions moratorium when there are $49 billion out there that hasn t been distributed? that part i agree with. i found the president s statement a little confusing where he said he couldn t guarantee that they wouldn t rule that they didn t have the authority. i think from the moment we put this eviction moratorium in at the end of the trump administration, everybody has been saying how do you get out of it? it can t go forever. when you put in moratoriums like this you get more pent-up demand for evictions so it gets harder every month. i think we could all acknowledge that in the middle of a pandemic there is a public
for this moratorium set the groundwork and that is getting interest for the story. not that nobody was interested, but they brought it to the mainstream. people have problems with public policy on capitol hill, and they have followings. and certainly alexandria ocasio cortez has massive following, but pelosi was working the white house, and she gave the president explanationings of the moratoriums, and then talking to making the arguments, and super interesting full court press from the rank and file doing this public kind of the projection, and you know, kind of the public protest in a sense, and pelosi working the phones, and using her washington know-how to get it across the finish line. yeah. let s talk about the intra
to help out there potentially extend their own moratoriums, make sure that they are freeing up aid for those families who need it. and this is as you see a renewed effort and focus on the pandemic that we have not seen in several weeks here at the white house where they have tried to focus on other priorities as they thought the pandemic was coming to an area where they felt a lot better about the progress. now you are seeing it is once again their number wo one prior. new cases are surging so badly that the federal government is deploying surgery teams to help stabilize ten states, one of those being louisiana where the largest hospital needs help treating the highest number of covid cases they have ever seen due to the delta variant. the governor says the situation may look bad now, but it will get much worse. the urgency is that we have the highest case growth rate in the country and the second place state is quite a ways behind us.
political party should be so darned important. for sure. director of the national institutes of health. dr. francis collins, thank you so much for everything you had to say this morning. we really appreciate it. now to this. the supreme court has rejected a request from a church in maine to keep the state from reimposing covid-related restrictions on services. calvary chapel of bangore asked . though the court has issued nearly a dozen rulings since last fall that block restrictions in favor of religious freedom. justice briar rejected the church s motion without comment. the white house is trying to figure out a way to stop landlords from evicting tenants now that the moratoriums on