Frustrated that the House adjourned without extending the eviction moratorium—and having experienced eviction herself—Rep. Cori Bush began a sit-in on the steps outside the Capitol. By the fifth day, the Biden administration had reversed course.
WASHINGTON—President Biden insisted that the only way to extend an expiring eviction moratorium was for Congress to pass a new law. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the only way was through the executive branch.
Then Rep. Cori Bush , in office just seven months, stepped in. Frustrated that the House had adjourned late Friday for a long break without trying to extend the moratorium, Ms. Bush made a decision in the moment. She put a chair on the steps outside the Capitol and began a nearly round-the-clock sit-in—sleeping there some nights. By the fifth day, the Biden administration had reversed course and“Am I supposed to just go home? No,” said Ms. Bush, who said she has been evicted herself three times.
The moratorium might not stand. Mr. Biden said he wasn’t sure if it would pass constitutional muster, and a group of property managers and Realtors. Republicans called it overreach by the administration and said the ban was of dubious legality. But the gambit marked a breakthrough moment for the 45-year-old first-term congresswoman and a rare occasion when a lawmaker’s protest has changed policy in Washington, even if it proves fleeting.
“Rep. Cori Bush gets huge credit,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday on the Senate floor. “One person who changed things for tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people.”
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