In an interview on CNN on Tuesday, Ms. Wasserman Schultz said that the delegation had been in Saudi Arabia when Hamas fighters first broke through barriers encircling the Gaza Strip on Saturday and attacked nearby Israeli towns, where they killed hundreds of civilians and took scores of hostages. She added that Saudi officials told her the events had not deterred them from pursuing normalization of relations with Israel.
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A bipartisan group of 84 lawmakers wrote to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona pressing for information on the Department of Education’s plans to resolve a backlog of investigations into campus antisemitism and improve protections for Jewish students, Jewish Insider has learned. Read more »
"Mr. Kennedy can say anything he wants, and he certainly has," Schultz said. "No one is censoring him. The issue is should Republicans give him one of the world's largest platforms by allowing him to share misinformation and dangerous disinformation before Congress. It is irresponsible, especially given the incendiary and inaccurate things he's saying and the violence that Jews and Asians are facing in this country as a result of rising hatred directed at their communities." Read more »
A congressional committee approved an increase in funding for the office of Deborah Lipstadt, the State Department’s antisemitism monitor, from $1.5 million to $2.5 million. Read more »
"It is a show of solidarity and of defiance and of American leadership," she said. "And having this briefing, this community in here, as close as we are to Cuba is so critical, because we know they're watching." Read more »
“I want to deliver safer, speedier travel and cut down commute times in South Florida, and that requires an across government effort, so I’m proud that President Biden and Congress partnered to deliver that help to our community,” Wasserman Schultz said. Read more »
“We have permanently funded a guaranteed health-care fund for toxic-exposed veterans. It’s just, it’s historic,” Wasserman Schultz said Wednesday. She credited the party’s messaging effort, soon after the late April passage of the GOP’s initial plan to cut $4.8 trillion in funding, as critical to highlighting how those cuts would have inevitably led to steep cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Republicans in districts that Biden won in 2020 panicked at that line of attack, prompting GOP leaders to promise to protect VA funding in the final compromise. “It happened because we shamed them into it,” Wasserman Schultz said. Read more »
“Today, the House unequivocally condemned antisemitism by passing my resolution with a bipartisan vote,” Wasserman Schultz tweeted. “As Jewish American Heritage Month comes to a close, let’s recognize that while hatred is on the rise, we must recommit ourselves to the fight against it and all hate.” Read more »
Like President Biden, I believe in maintaining sanctions against the Maduro regime and its enablers until we see the restoration of human rights, the release of political prisoners and wrongfully detained Americans, and a framework for free, fair elections. Mr. Maduro’s frequent public gripes regarding these sanctions demonstrate our continued leverage. Read more »
“This timely response by the President will help unleash temporary housing, home repairs, and property loans for our families, and it extends a helping hand to businesses eager to rebuild from the effects of this natural disaster. Only if we unite with a true federal, state, and local effort, can we get our Broward community fully back up on its feet. And when we asked for that assistance, I’m proud and thankful that President Biden wasted no time in making that pledge to us.” Read more »
