Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) heard from healthcare professionals – including hospital CEOs, healthcare workers, and consumer advocates – about how massive Republican Medicaid cuts and the failure to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits would harm local health providers and families in our community. Following the roundtable discussion, she took questions fro... Read More »
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) led 137 Democratic Members of Congress to support and defend Venezuelans from the Trump Administration’s baseless termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by filing an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in National TPS Alliance v. Noem. This filing follows a federa... Read More »
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) held a press conference with a healthcare advocate, insurance expert, and Affordable Care Act recipient to address the Republican healthcare crisis unleashed by the Big Ugly Bill, attacks on vaccines, and the refusal to extend healthcare tax credits in partisan GOP spending bills. Watch Wasserman Schultz’s full remarks here. Watch ... Read More »
Washington DC – Today, U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) and Tim Burchett (TN-2) announced the introduction of the bipartisan Courtney Wild Reinforcing Crime Victims' Rights Act to close the legal loophole that kept survivors of notorious sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein in the dark about his secret, sweetheart deal in 2008. This legislation would ensure survivors retain their rights and ... Read More »
Washington, DC -- Today, U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement on the House Resolution regarding Charlie Kirk: "While I strongly disagreed with Charlie Kirk’s views, and today’s resolution honoring him was not language I would have chosen, I voted for it to make clear that the horrific political violence that took his life has no place in our democracy. Our ... Read More »
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) and Max Miller’s (OH-07) bipartisan Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act passed in the U.S. House of Representatives by voice vote. If signed into law, it would help ensure hundreds of fallen American-Jewish servicemembers are buried under military grave markers that represent their true religion and heritage. ... Read More »
Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) secured a key provision in a House funding bill that would protect the research capabilities at the federal agency responsible for keeping Americans safe from extreme weather and climate threats. This bipartisan measure ensures that key forecasting and climate work at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)... Read More »
Washington DC — Today, the Speaker of the House appointed the House Conferees with the U.S. Senate after the full House voted to participate in the Conference Committee to finalize the fiscal year 2026 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, and Legislative Branch funding bills. U.S. Rep.... Read More »
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) led Florida’s entire Congressional Democratic delegation in calling on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to reverse a recent policy plan to eliminate state vaccine mandates. Florida’s House Republicans were invited to sign on to the request, which pointed to the potential negative health and economic impacts that could result from such a... Read More »
U.S. House Democrats from Florida have signed a letter urging Gov. Ron DeSantis to reverse Florida’s plans to eliminate school vaccine mandates. Led by U.S. House Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, the lawmakers write that removing the mandates will hurt public health and tourism. They also criticized Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo for comparing vaccine mandates to slavery. “The m... Read More »
Degraded hurricane forecasts. Undetected HIV infections because of reduced testing. Seniors on the phone for hours waiting for Social Security to answer. Children without enough food. And dirtier planes and longer waits for bags at the airport. Those developments — some calamitous, some merely frustrating — are coming or are already here, a range of Broward elected officials said Friday as they of... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), co-chair of the Congressional Venezuela Democracy Caucus introduced the bipartisan Revoke Exemptions for Venezuelan Oil to Curb Autocratic Repression Act, or REVOCAR Act, as an amendment to the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. The REVOCAR Act would prohibit new and existing licenses for companies to transact wit... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) led an urgent public briefing at the Broward County Governmental Center to highlight the impacts of the Big Ugly Bill, other federal and state budget cuts, and recent Trump Executive Orders. Wasserman Schultz was be joined by U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20), State Representatives Marie Woodson (D-105), Robin Bartlema... Read More »
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) released the following statement after a Florida judge ruled to effectively shut down the Everglades Immigrant Detention Center: “The Everglades immigrant internment camp is a testament to cruelty, waste, and corruption. It needs to be closed. Thanks to pressure by fellow Democrats in our Congressional delegation and lega... Read More »
Wasserman Schultz, Merkley Lead 63 Lawmakers to Press Trump Admin on Plans for Dangerous, Cruel ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Facility Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) and Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley led 63 members of Congress to raise the alarm and demand immediate answers from the Trump Administration about the immigration detention camp in Florida’s E... Read More »
