Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised a group of House Democrats and activists camping out on the east front steps of the Capitol in an effort to pressure the federal government to extend an eviction moratorium.

Pelosi said in a statement on Tuesday that House Democrats “have galvanized a national movement around the eviction emergency.”

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