Dr. Ben Carson to Newsmax: Biden CDC’s Eviction Moratorium Extension Illegal
August 10, 2021 | District of Columbia
Former President Donald Trump HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson told Newsmax Monday that the recent eviction moratorium extension by President Joe Biden’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through Oct. 3 is not legal.
“Obviously, it’s not legal,” Carson said during “Cortes & Pellegrino” Monday night. “We need to recognize that the environment is very different than when the moratorium on evictions was first enacted during the Trump administration. We had a raging viral epidemic going on at that point. We did not have a vaccine, and we didn’t have other treatments that were judged acceptable.”
Carson said the country now has vaccines in place, jobs available, and federally designated money to go to the landlords to pay the back rents caused by the lockdowns…. (Excerpts from the Newsmax)
