“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 »
Veterans’ care and benefits are sacred promises we pay to our veterans as part of the cost of war and in acknowledgment of their sacrifice. We owe it to our nation’s veterans to honorably recognize their service — not subject them to political hijinks with potentially disastrous consequences. Read more »
“Logic would tell you that treating cancer is probably slightly more expensive and impactful on Medicare’s bottom line then the cost of genetic testing. ... It’s vital that we address cancer through early detection using all the tools available,” said Wasserman Schultz. Read more »
The call for a “National Day of Hate” from white supremacists promoting antisemitism produced a counter-reaction in Broward, as a range of political, law enforcement, civic and religious leaders joined to denounce antisemitism and other forms of hate.
“We are united against the extremists and the white supremacists,” said U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Read more »
Wasserman Schultz grilled a Fox News legal analyst for sharing “pure conjecture” during a hearing for the House’s new Weaponization of the Federal Government committee. Read more »
“Women have a target on their back right now,” Wasserman Schultz told reporters Monday, adding that Lopes and the other guests would “highlight the extremism” of Republican states. Read more »
