• Supreme court ruled Congress must authorize extension beyond 31 July
• President expected to announce vaccine mandate for US federal workers
• Speech comes after CDC recommends masks in some areas
• Republicans’ new tone on vaccines having little effect on hardcore holdouts

3.57pm BST

For months, Denise Forcer would get stressed just by opening her closet. The crush of belongings stuffed inside reminded her she didn’t know where she would go or what she would do if her landlord followed through with the eviction notices they kept posting on the door of her south Florida apartment.

“I thought I was going to have a breakdown, I really did,” Forcer, 51, told the Guardian. “I didn’t know when those people were going to come banging on my door or put up another paper.”

Related: US states brace for ‘avalanche’ of evictions as federal moratorium ends

3.46pm BST

Joe Biden is calling on Congress to extend the pandemic-related eviction moratorium, which is currently set to expire at the end of this week.

In a new statement, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the president does not believe he can unilaterally extend the moratorium because the supreme court ruled last month that Congress must authorize any extension beyond July 31.

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Source: The Guardian