Dem Rep Rashida Tlaib Reportedly Raked in Major Rental Income as She Pushed 'Nationwide Cancellation' of Rent

Congresswoman and “squad” member Rashida Tlaib, while vocally calling for the cancellation of rent and casting a negative light on landlords, was reportedly seeing rental checks from her own tenants to the tune of “up to $100,000” during the C***D19 panic.

The Michigan lawmaker’s most recently filed annual financial disclosures on Thursday showed that she collected at least $15,000 and up to $50,000 in rental income from a Detroit property she owns in 2021, according to disclosures revealed by Fox News. Even more surprisingly: The rental income for the same property in August 2020 was the same.

Added up: The rent from that single property totals anywhere from $30,000 to $100,000 during the two years of C***D in Michigan, where Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer enacted some of the harshest lockdowns in the nation.

During the same period, Tlaib alongside fellow “squad” legislators like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Cori Bush of Missouri heavily pushed efforts to “cancel” rent, leaving landlords in the lurch, saddled with properties running in the net negative, with a bill designed to “institute a nationwide cancellation of rents and home mortgage payments through the duration of the c****av***s p******c.”

In August 2021, K**lian Laverty of FreedomWorks wrote that “After a pressure campaign led by squad member Rep. Cori Bush, Biden used his executive authority to extend the Center for Disease Control eviction moratorium despite significant constitutional concerns. Biden himself even admitted repeatedly that he lacked the authority to further extend the moratorium following a recent Supreme Court ruling — before following through with it anyway.”

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Laverty explained that Omar later wrote and introduced a bill co-sponsored by Tlaib, H.R. 1847, the Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act, that would have codified the cancellation of rental payments nationwide all the way until April 2022.

FreedomWorks found that Tlaib was not the only “squad” member who was benefiting from a rental income stream. Pressley was also collecting between $5,000 and $15,000 in rent during the same period of 2021.

H.R. 1847 subsequently died in committee — it was referred to the House Committee on Financial Services and failed to be considered.

According to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Pressley, Tlaib and Ocasio-Cortez, all sat on the Financial Services Committee in 2021, which was chaired by Rep. Maxine Waters.

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Here’s a short summary from the text of the bill:

“Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the obligation of each tenant household of a covered rental dwelling unit to pay rent for occupancy in such dwelling unit shall be suspended with respect to such occupancy during the C****-** suspension period.”
“No tenant or tenant household may be charged a fine or fee for nonpayment of rent in accordance with paragraph (1) and such nonpayment of rent shall not be grounds for any termination of tenancy or eviction.”
“No tenant or tenant household may be treated as accruing any debt by reason of suspension of contribution of rent under paragraph (1).”
“No tenant or tenant household may be held liable for repayment of any amount of rent contribution suspended under paragraph (1).”
“The nonpayment of rent by a tenant or tenant household shall not be reported to a consumer reporting agency nor shall such nonpayment adversely affect a tenant or member of a tenant household’s credit score.”

Similar restrictions were to be placed on mortgages, but would nonetheless ultimately leave landlords with a rapidly depreciating asset, that they are legally responsible for the maintenance of, with no capacity for rec**ping their operating losses due to maintenance or other causes.

Notably, this bill failed to be heard in committee or be considered on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives despite Democrats holding control of both committee and House agendas and possessing a commanding majority in both.

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'He didn’t like to read': Missouri paper highlights a 'particularly curious' element of Trump’s document stash
'He didn’t like to read': Missouri paper highlights a 'particularly curious' element of Trump’s document stash
President Donald J. Trump, addresses his remarks prior to signing Anti-Human Trafficking legislation Wednesday, January 9, 2019, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
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An editorial published Saturday in Missouri’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch called out former President Donald Trump’s well-documented distaste for reading, posing the question: “Why would an ex-president who doesn't read want boxes of documents at his home?”

The Post-Dispatch referenced a series of stunning reports published over the past week detailing the FBI’s seizure of nearly “two-dozen boxes of documents that belonged to the federal government and reportedly contained top secret material.” Those documents were found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last Monday.

Noting the former president’s proclivity towards boredom, general lack of interest in reading and abject love of TV, the editorial board writes:


“Against that backdrop, the existence of perhaps 25 boxes full of government documents, reportedly including top secret material, in a Mar-a-Lago basement seems particularly curious. Why would Trump want them at his private residence when he didn’t like to read and had no legal right to possess them?”
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Referencing Trump’s relentless 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton over her private email sever, the editorial board insists, “Trump certainly had to grasp how serious it is to unlawfully retain classified documents”



“And after the FBI collected 15 boxes full of documents at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year, Trump must have had a good reason to hide the existence of another 10 boxes,” the editorial continues. “It was only after an informant tipped off the FBI to the additional boxes that a federal judge authorized last week’s search.”

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The editorial board goes on to slam Republicans who are “apoplectic” over the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago but mum on Trump’s decision to take documents that “were never his.”


“Regardless of the justification, the documents were never his, and Republicans who are apoplectic over the FBI search should first be asking why it was ever O.K. for him to break the law in the first place,” the board writes.

I was going to post this as a new topic, but if you do not mind I will add it to your topic. Jaime Dimon, the head of JP Morgan is pretty smart. I think even brain dead Democrats and liberals respect him. He says increasing US oil and gas production is not at odds with battling C*****e C****e. Now as everyone knows, I always say Climate Chang/G****l W*****g is horse manure, but I can live with what Mr. Dimon is saying.

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