“I discovered I had cancer at a young age, but I didn’t know how heavily genetics impacted my risk,” said Wasserman Schultz, who was diagnosed with breast cancer and the BRCA2 gene mutation at age 41 and after seven surgeries, is now more than fifteen years cancer free. “It’s nonsensical, wasteful and short-sighted that Medicare doesn’t allow individuals to access this inexpensive and widely available screening until they have received a potentially terminal cancer diagnosis. By expanding access to genetic testing, we empower an entire generation to learn their risk and take action before it’s too late.” Read more »
“Like so many women in the United States, I heard those devastating words no one wants to hear: ‘you have breast cancer.’ My personal experience battling this terrible disease led to the creation of the EARLY Act, which was designed to help educate women and their health care providers about the specific threats and warning signs of breast cancer in younger women that lead to early detection, diagnosis, and survival,” said Wasserman Schultz, who was diagnosed with breast cancer and the BRCA2 gene mutation at age 41 and after 15 months of surgery, has been cancer free for 17 years. “Reauthorizing the EARLY Act means that we will continue the vital work of educating young and higher risk women about their breast health and do everything we can to save more lives.” Read more »
“Trump and Ron DeSantis have exploited legal ambiguity around this Everglades internment camp to avoid any scrutiny of abuses there,” said Wasserman Schultz. “Our bill would shut down this atrocity, strengthen oversight of detention facilities nationwide, and mandate public reporting on costs, conditions, and the treatment of detainees at this detention site, as well as report on any harms to the environment and nearby tribal lands. The public deserves the full truth about what’s happening in and around this facility and they deserve accountability for any laws broken.” Read more »
DeSantis’ internment camp puts decades of massive restoration and billions of dollars in Everglades investments at risk. It desecrates the tribal lands it sits upon and wastes hundreds of millions of state funding at a grossly inflated cost. Read more »
"We are seriously concerned about the future treatment of immigrants at this facility. It is also important that we uplift grave concerns over the environmental and tribal impacts of your decision.” Read more »
When lowering costs for Americans should drive every decision we make, this bill needlessly fixates on keeping guns in the hands of those who are potentially a danger to themselves or others and restricts reproductive rights and other cruel and pointless policy restrictions. Read more »
"You are required to seek our approval," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., the ranking member of the VA appropriations subcommittee, told Collins. "You were a member of Congress. You're aware of that, and you have not done that. You still owe us answers on why you sent a notification instead of a reprogramming [request]. You didn't send us a plan. We're asking you for a plan. A two-page notification with one briefing does not give us any real information on what exactly you'll be doing with these funds." Read more »
Social Security is breaking down nationwide as Trump and Musk fire thousands of workers, close field offices, force drastic service cuts, and make it nearly impossible for Americans to get timely help with their hard-earned benefits. Other far-right Republicans propose benefits be cut. Wasserman Schultz was joined by Social Security advocates Gail Weisberg and Rixys Alfonso, AFGE Local 2014 representative Althia Mowatt, Indivisible member Miriam Rodriguez and other seniors and AFGE members who care about and count on Social Security. Read more »
This billboard is dead-on. Trump’s tariffs threaten the largest tax hike in history on every middle-class family who drives past this ad. Trump is tanking our economy and ruining our relationship with Canada and all its visitors to Florida, and that ugly truth needs to be shared everywhere. Read more »
