Vox Sentences - Manila’s new lockdown

Democrats are fighting over the expired eviction moratorium; the Philippines is instituting a new pandemic lockdown.

Tonight's Sentences was written by Gabby Birenbaum.

The eviction moratorium sleep-in

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• After 11 months, an eviction moratorium introduced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expired on August 1, leaving millions of Americans saddled with months of rent payments they cannot afford. [Vox / Maryam Gamar]
• The Biden administration has said an executive expansion would not be possible given a June Supreme Court ruling that an extension would need to come through Congress, and asked House Democrats to take it up two days before their recess. [CNN / Zachary B. Wolf]
• The delayed action meant the House adjourned on Friday with no extension plan. As a result, 7 million Americans who have fallen behind on rent are at risk of eviction. [NPR / Chris Arnold]
• Congress had initially authorized nearly $50 billion in rent relief funding, but that money has proven difficult to access, with slow distribution through a variety of state and county programs. Unless a state has a local moratorium, landlords can now begin evictions for missed rent. [USA Today]
• Of the $46 billion allocated for rent relief for tenants and landlords, experts estimate that just $3 billion has been successfully spent. [Newsweek / Elizabeth Crisp]
• Progressives have blasted Democratic leadership for dropping the ball on extending the moratorium. Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), who has experienced homelessness, is leading a sleep-in protest, where she and others are sleeping outside the Capitol grounds to pressure her colleagues into returning and passing a bill. [Yahoo News / Shannon Dawson]
• As more Democrats have joined Bush’s call, House leadership has turned the situation back on Biden, asking him or the CDC to extend the moratorium given that even successful passage of a House bill would be irrelevant because the 50-50 Senate would never go for it. [Politico / Katy O’Donnell]

Lockdown in Manila

• Residents of Manila are facing a curfew from 8 pm to 4 am each night and a lockdown from August 6 to 20 as the delta variant has begun to overwhelm health systems in the region. [Reuters]
• Previously, the Philippines had been in lockdown from March 29 to April 30, but had since seen a reopening of the economy until June, when case counts began to rise once again. [Inside Asian Gaming]
• Officials have said the number of beds in use at hospitals has been steadily increasing, with utilization rates consistently rising in risk level. [CNN Philippines]
• Manila is logging daily case counts over 8,000, with ICU bed occupancy rates expected to hit 70 percent within three weeks. [Manila Times / Zsastee Villanueva]
• President Rodrigo Duterte has made a number of threats toward vaccine refusers, including suggesting they should be detained inside their homes or jailed. [NYT / Jason Gutierrez]

Former President Barack Obama’s 60th birthday party on Martha’s Vineyard is expected to include hundreds of guests, despite concerns over the delta variant. [Insider / Kelsey Vlamis]

• Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has received an offer of asylum from Poland after she refused to board a flight out of Tokyo following an order from her coach. [The Cut / Claire Lampen]
• Laurel Hubbard, a New Zealand weightlifter, became the first openly transgender woman to compete at the Olympics. [Washington Post / Chuck Culpepper]
• Both Lollapalooza and the Governor’s Ball removed rapper DaBaby from their lineups in response to homophobic comments he made at Miami’s Rolling Loud festival. [BuzzFeed News / Tasneem Nashrulla]

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“I have been evicted three times myself. I know what it's like to be forced to live in my car with my two children. Now that I am a member of Congress, I refuse to stand by while millions of people are vulnerable to experiencing that same trauma that I did."

[Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), on Democrats’ failure to extend the eviction moratorium]

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