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“Cancer rates dropped before you took office,” Wasserman Schultz said on Twitter in response to the president’s claim. “Hopefully they keep dropping because Congress rejected your cruel research budgets, which sought billions in CUTS to @NIH and the National Cancer Institute. This is good news despite you — not because of you.” Read more »

Put simply, President Trump is corrupt and unfit for his office. Therefore, I will vote to impeach this president, both for abusing his power, and his flagrant obstruction of Congress. Read more »

Until the Ukraine scandal exploded, the protection of federal whistleblowers was important to Republicans and Democrats alike. That old bipartisan commitment was on display during an Appropriations subcommittee hearing on a Veterans Affairs internal watchdog report. The inspector general found an office meant to protect whistleblowers inflicted injury instead. Read more »

Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., a member of the House Oversight Committee who was present for the deposition, told NBC News that Vindman was a “very credible” witness and said his testimony "corroborated the testimony of other witnesses" that "really drew a direct line to the President, and those around him and their interest in withholding foreign aid through Ukraine that was vital, as well as insisting on investigations into Biden." Read more »

We owe it to our communities, families and future generations to confront the climate crisis head-on. That starts with getting to the root of the problem and holding ExxonMobil and other fossil-fuel companies accountable for the damage they knowingly caused. Read more »

My story, like many others, begins with the words “You have breast cancer.” Read more »

"Elijah Cummings had unmatched integrity, wisdom. You couldn't spend five minutes with Elijah Cummings without feeling impacted deeply by his guidance, by his values," the Florida Democrat said. Read more »

“We cannot allow this president to turn our national security into some sick reality TV plot,” Wasserman Schultz said in the Democrats’ national weekly address, in which she called the wall “a wasteful solution to a manufactured crisis that intoxicates his base and turns our service members into political pawns.” Read more »

Florida ranks 49 out of 50 in the country for the worst income inequality. The consequences for our state’s families are severe: nearly half of households can’t afford basic needs. Read more »

The lawmakers sent a letter to Attorney General Barr, saying the ongoing DOJ inspector general investigation should not limit itself to how Epstein was able to wind up dead in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial. It should focus on the deal Epstein received to escape meaningful punishment 10 years ago. Read more »