The Biden administration quietly extended a disastrous pandemic policy

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One of the biggest government power grabs we’ve seen over the last year has largely flown under the radar: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s unilateral move at the start of the pandemic to largely prohibit evictions nationwide. You may have missed the news, but this unprecedented “eviction moratorium” just got extended by the Biden administration.

“The CDC has just announced that it is extending its nationwide eviction moratorium through June,” the National Review reports. “The original CDC eviction moratorium from September made it a crime — punishable by up to one year of imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000 — to evict certain tenants for nonpayment of rent.”

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