Wasserman Schultz, Sánchez, Goldman Lead Democrats in Demanding IRS Stop Illegal Abuse of Taxpayers' Data

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Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) was joined by Rep. Linda Sánchez (CA-38), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Rep. Dan Goldman (NY-10), a member of the House Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees, to demand that Acting IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem cease their illegal efforts to abuse taxpayers...

Bipartisan Legislation Reintroduced to Strengthen U.S.-Israel Energy Cooperation

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Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), Buddy Carter (GA-01), Joe Wilson (SC-02), and Brad Schneider (IL-10) announced the reintroduction of the BIRD Energy and U.S.-Israel Energy Center Reauthorization Act of 2025. This bipartisan legislation extends and expands the successful U.S.-Israel energy partnership through 2034, ensuring continued collaboration on c...

Wasserman Schultz, Meeks Lead Democrats to Slam Rubio’s Venezuela TPS Hypocrisy

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Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), co-chair of the Venezuela Democracy Caucus, joined Rep. Gregory Meeks (NY-5), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in a letter demanding that Secretary of State Marco Rubio explain the Trump Administration’s stunning betrayal of Venezuelan residents with Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Wasserman Schultz and Mee...

Every Florida Congressional Democrat Warns Trump to Avoid Cuts to Hurricane Forecasting as House Republicans Stay Uniformly Silent

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Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) announced that every Florida Congressional Democrat wrote the Trump Administration to warn that cuts to meteorologists and weather forecasting resources pose an immediate threat to hurricane preparedness and extreme weather response efforts in Florida and across the nation. “Investments in weather forecasting and emergency prepared...

Congressional Jewish Caucus Calls on Google to Restore Holocaust Remembrance, JAHM Messages

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Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) announced that she and members of the Congressional Jewish Caucus (CJC) sent a letter to Google urging the company to reverse its decision to remove International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) from its default calendar display. The letter requesting that Google reverse this decision marks the fi...

Wasserman Schultz Calls on VA Secretary Collins to Halt, Fully Disclose Unlawful Mass Veterans’ Firings, Voided Health Care Contracts

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Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) released her letter to Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins demanding an immediate halt to unlawful mass firings and impoundment of funds, and requested he provide details on how these or other actions would deteriorate the care veterans receive. Wasserman Schultz, the Ranking Member on the House Military Construction and ...

Wasserman Schultz Welcomes Trump Flip-Flop on Allowing Oil Profits to Fund Maduro, Demands Trump Stop Sending Law-Abiding Venezuelans Back to Brutal Regime

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Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) released the following statement on President Trump’s reversal of his previous stance to allow oil companies to profit alongside Maduro’s brutal regime, while renewing her calls for Trump to restore TPS for Venezuelans and protect them from being subjected to this ruthless dictatorship: "For months, I have demanded the termination of oil ...

Wasserman Schultz: Republican Budget Ravages Medicaid, Explodes Debt, All to Fund Billionaire Tax Breaks

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Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) released the following statement after House Republicans assured Democrats that no further votes would occur tonight, then did a deceptive about face, and called a vote to pass a budget resolution that betrays middle class families to hand billionaires and big corporations more huge tax breaks: “This Republican budget is a vicious scheme ...

Wasserman Schultz Announces New Effort To Hear From Americans Hurt By Trump Actions

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Sunrise, Fla. – Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), joined Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Democrats in announcing a new effort to hear directly from Americans harmed by the Trump Administration. “If you lost your job, been denied important services, or face other impacts because of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s extreme, illegal, and unconstitutional actions, we need to h...

Wasserman Schultz, Salazar, Soto, Wilson Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Adjust Legal Status for Venezuelan Nationals

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WASHINGTON, DC – This week, U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), Darren Soto (D-FL-09), María Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27), and Frederica Wilson (D-FL-24) announced the re-introduction of H.R. 1348, the Venezuelan Adjustment Act, bipartisan legislation to adjust the status for certain Venezuelan nationals to that of lawfully admitted permanent resident (LPR) if they meet certain criteria, incl...

Wasserman Schultz on Veterans’ Health Care Assault from VA Firings

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Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), the Ranking Member on the House Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, released the following statement in response to the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs confirming it dismissed more than 1,000 employees: Under President Trump’s cruel directive, the VA Secretary’s indiscriminate firing of 1,000 public ser...

Reps. Wasserman Schultz, Van Drew, Moskowitz, Moran Introduce the PROTECT Our Children Act in the House

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Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), Jeff Van Drew (NJ-02), Jared Moskowitz (FL-23), Nathaniel Moran (TX-01), introduced the PROTECT Our Children Act, which would reauthorize and modernize the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the companion bill in the Senate. “Our lives...

Wasserman Schultz Shares ‘Grave Concerns’ with New VA Secretary Collins on Funding Freeze, Data Leaks, Staffing and Policy Impacts to Veterans and VA

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Washington DC – Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) wrote to new Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins to share ‘grave concerns’ over the Trump Administration’s unconstitutional federal funding freezes, and warned that these and other outside programs cuts, along with massive job losses within the VA health care system, would inflict unacceptable harm to Veterans and their fa...

Sun Sentinel: Wasserman Schultz helps form new Congressional Jewish Caucus as ‘antisemitism reaching record levels’

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Jewish members of Congress have formed a Jewish Caucus, as lawmakers seek ways to strengthen relationships, advocate for policy and combat threats such as the rise in antisemitism. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the first Jewish woman from Florida elected to Congress, was one of the founders of the group, which also includes her South Florida colleagues, U.S. Reps. Lois Frankel and Jared Mos...

Democrats Demand Secretary Hegseth Justify Asking Taxpayers to Cover $50,000 ‘Emergency’ Paint Job at Government Furnished Home

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Washington DC – Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Subcommittee, joined House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), to demand that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth explain why he expects taxpayers to pay for a $50,000 ‘emergency’ paint job on his ...