There are measures the Executive can take and there are measures the legislature can take. The fact that all of them are standing around pointing fingers demonstrates they don’t intend to do a damned thing about it.

Judge kauvagna, however you spell it). Says he will switch his vote if they extend it. So that’s a no from the SC.

So biden is just pulling a parliamentairing bs excuse why they won’t even try. The reality is if it’s extended it will at the very least by a few weeks as it’s taken up by the courts. Also his cabinet is filled with black rock and they want all those small landlords property.

The house. Well the house could of done something. Instead Pelosi held a unanimous consent vote so she could blame the republicans for it not passing and to just get on with her vacay. And she’s using the old but the senate excuse.

Now they are pointing fingers at each other looking about as brain dead as my elderly landlord.

Looks like the white house is also blaming the press and accusing them of being hyperbolic

Basically Biden’s administration wants the moratorium to end because they think it will be good for the economy and housing market long-term, but they can’t say that outright so they are just passing the blame.

The short version: the Supreme Court would probably block it, but Democrats didn’t bother trying to extend it regardless.

The long version:

The eviction moratorium was put in place by the CDC and was scheduled to end on July 31. The Supreme Court said in late June that the CDC should not have been allowed to issue it in the first place, but said that it can stay in place until July 31 because that’s so soon and there’s still tons of rental assitance money that hasn’t been distributed yet.

On July 29, Biden said “this is Congress’ problem to fix.” Nancy Pelosi was like “what the fuck this is the first time I ever heard about this issue how do you expect me to pass this bill in two days.” She called a bullshit unanimous consent vote (meaning any 1 objector could block it) and some random Republican did (as expected). Then Nancy said “the mean old GOP blocked the eviction bill” when it’s painfully obvious she didn’t have the votes to pass it regardless (and even if she did it would get filibustered in the Senate). Biden thought about extending the moratorium unilaterally but decided against it because he assumed he’d lose at the Supreme Court and that the Supreme Court might block even more covid orders in addition to the eviction one. The CDC has said they won’t do it because they think they’ll lose in court. Biden asked the CDC to extend the moratorium on August 2nd, but shrug.

So now we have Biden and Pelosi finger-pointing over whose fault it is, half of Congress on vacation now anyway, and a tidal wave of evictions. They didn’t even try to extend the moratorium and it’s painfully obvious neither Biden nor Congressional Dems really support it.

Note that in June, the Supreme Court mentioned that the rental assistance money was one reason why there shouldn’t be an eviction moratorium. A month later, in early August (today), the rental assistance money still hasn’t gone out. There are some lawyers who think that would persuade the Supreme Court, but I have no fucking idea because I can’t read Brett Kavanaugh’s mind and neither can they.