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Looked like a shutdown might happen that they had the budget authority to renew contracts through the month of january, and that they would do everything they could to continue renewing them after that, although they may run into some problems in february. we were very alarmed by that. >> so thats the surprise, you just found out yesterday, actually, no, the january thing is not real. those are not going to be renewed. what does that mean for people who are depending on this housing? >> so all o...

In the past. 20 years in the past. they have been rendered obsolete. they have been rendered irrelevant but it remains a one-man show, donald trump against the democrat party and the media. we are very fortunate the guy does not cave. we are very fortunate he is willing to put up with this. brian: the heat will be turned up because another week without a paycheck for a lot of people, 400,000 different jobs, those who are not going to get checks from hud. those federal workers who last got paid d...

Tennets, in a statement -- hud did not say how many families are affected by the expiring contracts and why the contracts werent renewed. joining me to talk about this, sarah pratt, former hud deputy assistant secretary. thank you for joining us. tell me what your concern is about this. >> well, my concern is because of the shutdown, the federal government does not have the personnel to do the paperwork and get the money out the door. and so the action that hud took on january 4th sent letters t...

Households. what role does hud play in getting people housed or getting people housing? >> hud plays a subsidy to the landlord for every qualified tenant. the tenant pays part of the rent and hud plays a part thats part of the federal subsidy. when hud cant pay, the tenants are at risk and the landlords are at risk. if the landlords, what hud told the landlords to do was to take the money out of their own pockets and pay the cost of running the property in january, themselves, because hud couldn...

Bigger discussion about the fact that there are a lot of people who say that hud is not funded the way it should be, and that theres been an effort to sort of reduce funding. so here weve got people sort of who are the least among us, the ones who are struggling the most, even fully funded, hud is having problems meeting the needs of the audience of the clientele that it needs to. >> hud most recently funded about 7,700 people or full-time equivalence, and it in the past when it was most success...

Included with many medicare advantage plans. call the number on the screen now or visit getsilversneakers.com the shutdown in its 18th day is putting some of the poorest americans at risk of eviction. huds section 8 rental assistant program helps 1.2 million low-income families find housing, but 5% of those contracts have expired since the shutdown began. in a last-minute effort, the agency sent letters asking land lords to take steps to avoid evicting thousandsj

Were talking about real money here. >> we are talking about real money and the lack of real money and that puts tenants at risk. a landlord who does not have the money to continue operations wont have any option but to shut down. >> your experience in the past, hud has told us that in the past, they have made the back payments. is that what you expect is sl e likely to happen? that assumes a land lord would agree to continuing on with a tenant and not evicting them. do you expect that they will ...

Might feel like they have a crisis and adjusting something accurately and honestly, they are beginning to break. you have cory gardner saying why dont we temporarily reopen the government and focus on what woe dont agree on. tillis, collins and lamar alexander same thing. if they begin to break and feel the pressure, for example, a mass walkout at tsa or irs or hud where they get supplemental rental checks where those arent coming that will maybe begin to crack at the foundation of the republica...

Decouple it from the conversation about reopening the government. nancy pelosi now is trying to take steps to continue to reopen the government but also put pressure on republicans for refusing to go along and do so. what were going to see this week is all the bills being held up that dont have anything to do with border security. last week, democrats voted to pass them in a block and then kick the can down the road on the homeland security funding. this week, youll see each bill get brought up ...

Folks. it will be interesting to see was rather bizarre. we need to look at more than how the guys, put outside all the other splits in the field, just a physical barrier, we need those guys work out their to look at more border patrol arrangements going forward. agents, technology and other >> part of the arrangement is means as well. the texas primary is the same day as the big california >> in other words, republicans are still arguing just back to primary which is now in march. >> right. eve...