i live in san antonio. i'm here right now. and this morning there was a town hall or forum that was for utility assistance and rental assistance, and hundreds, if not thousands of people showed up to that. but they went out to the people and tried to make it as easy as they could for folks to come and get their questions answered, get their applications in. these are not only tenants, but also landlords. that's important, because some people when they hear about the eviction moratorium, they say these landlords have had to wait too long. these funds are actually available to landlords, ultimately. so only 11% of these funds have gotten distributed. 89% have not. states and localities need to get their act together, cut the red tape, don't wait, but go out into the community. on top of that, i believe that congress should act as soon as possible to extend an eviction moratorium and states that don't have one in place should immediately consider one. >> secretary julian castro, i appreciate your time and i especially appreciate

i live in san antonio, i'm here right now. and this morning there was a town hall or forum that was for utility assistance and rental assistance. and hundreds if not thousands of people showed up to that. but they went out to the people and tried to make it as easy as they could for folks to come in and get their questions answered, get their applications in. these are not only tenants but also landlords. that's important, because some people when they hear about the eviction moratorium, they say, look, these landlords have had to wait too long. these funds are actually available to landlords ultimately. so only 11% of these funds have gotten distributed. 89% have not. states and localities need to get their act together, cut the red tape, don't wait, but go out into the community. and on top of that, i believe that congress should act as soon as possible to extend an eviction moratorium and states that don't have one in place should immediately consider one. >> secretary julian castro, i appreciate your time and i especially

antonio and austin and houston doing what's necessary to protect the residents of those areas. >> to that point, governor abbott is seeking legal action to uphold his anti-mask mandates saying any school district, public university, or local government official who decides to defy the order will be taken to court. this is the state of texas versus everyone else. so i take your point about this being reprehensible. it also to me doesn't square with the supposed conservative principle of small government, of trusting local elected officials to decide what is in the best interests of their communities, to say nothing of going against the sort of free market idea, right? the fact that you have him talking on restaurants that want to have mask mandated. it all just doesn't square. >> look, what it reflects is not only a campaign against vaccinations and coronavirus restrictions on conservative media that have radicalized a certain portion of the republican electorate against public health measures, but it also reflects the republican culture war against cities. the places that are defying

both of my kids, a 12-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son go to school in san antonio, and like a lot of parents i'm wondering exactly how they're going to keep the kids and teachers safe especially because they're not fully empowered in those school districts to do so. it's giving a lot of parents pause, and if the governor thinks he's doing himself any favors, he's not. >> they're all different stripes who see this as knuckle headed. as seeing as lacking common sense and joaquin is right. he's doing this because he's trying to appeal, woe have a republican primary base because he has 11, and he's afraid of losing. so he's sacrificing the health, potentially of all of our concern in order to keep his seat. >> congressman, i want to be transparent about how we all came to be here today talking about this. my team and i get on a call where we talk about the stories that we talk about, and it was very important to me to mark the two-year anniversary of the el paso shooting and we needed to talk about the doj and voting rights and when we stepped back and we said, wait a second. these ar

antonio and austin and houston doing what's necessary to protect the residents of those areas. >> to that point, governor abbott is seeking legal action to upholed his anti-mask mandates saying any local government officials that decides to defy the order will be teen court. this is the state of texas versus everyone else. so i take your point about this being reprehensible. it also to me doesn't square with the supposed conservative pin of small government, of trusting local elected officials to decide what is in the best interests of their communities, to say nothing about going against a free-market idea, the fact that you have him taking on restaurants that want to have mask mandates, it doesn't square. >> look, what it reflects is not only a campaign against vaccinations and coronavirus restrictions on conservative media that have radicalized a part of the electorate, but the reflects the culture war against cities, the places that are defying the mask mandates are cities in texas, which tend to be more liberal than the rest of texas, even though texas is a conservative state. s