Media boasts Cori Bush spearheading eviction mortarium, largely silent on defund the police comments

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Mainstream media outlets who boasted about Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., influencing President Joe Biden’s latest eviction moratorium order were silent regarding her “defund the police” comments.

Last week, the Biden administration announced a new ban on landlords evicting tenants during the pandemic, despite conflicting with Supreme Court rulings. Although Biden ultimately announced the decision, many media outlets and Democrat politicians cited Bush’s protest outside the U.S. Capitol as a factor.

The Washington Post referenced this in an article titled “Cori Bush slept outside the Capitol to protest evictions. Democrats credited her for the renewed protections” noting “On Tuesday, Bush’s campaign succeeded.”

The New York Times was more direct in its article “With Capitol Sit-In, Cori Bush Galvanized a Progressive Revolt Over Evictions.” This article included the byline “Refusing to move from the Capitol steps, the first-term congresswoman from St. Louis intensified pressure on the Biden administration and showed her tactics could yield results.”

Though Biden denied ever supporting defunding the police, he previously agreed “absolutely” that there should be redirecting of police funds in 2020. Other predominant Democrats such as Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., have openly and continually called for defunding the police and has openly supported Bush’s actions.

“Defunding police means defunding police,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education’s budget so the exact same police remain in schools.”

For now, Biden has worked against the defund the police movement by offering $350 billion from the American Rescue Plan to New York City police officers to combat the growing crime rates.

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