Rep. Wasserman Schultz on Everglades ICE Facility: "An Internment Camp"

July 12, 2025

I just took a staged ‘tour’ of the Everglades internment camp today with my colleagues. Despite being sanitized, it was clear: This place needs to be shut the hell down. They're abusing human beings in cages.

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  • Rep. Wasserman Schultz NOAA Cuts Zoom Press Conference July 9, 2025

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  • Rep. Wasserman Schultz on Passage of the Big Ugly Bill July 3, 2025

    Republicans' Big Ugly Bill is an abomination. Millions stripped of health coverage and food aid, hundreds of hospitals and nursing homes face closure – all rushed and passed under cover of night to give handouts to billionaires. I fought it nonstop and proudly voted against it.

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    Republicans throw the American people to the wolves with their Big Ugly Bill. Our country is not better off when millions have health care stolen from them.

  • Rep. Wasserman Schultz on the Big Ugly Bill July 3, 2025

    🩺 Millions lose healthcare 🏥 Hospitals face closures 🥪 Kids, seniors & veterans lose food assistance 👷🏻 Millions of jobs killed 📈 Debt skyrockets 💣 Deficit explodes All of this to hand huge tax breaks to the rich

  • Rep. Wasserman Schultz on Republicans' Big Ugly Bill July 2, 2025

    Republicans' Big Ugly Bill steals health care from millions of people and still manages to blow a $4 trillion hole in our national debt, all to give tax breaks to billionaires. Congress is supposed to help people. This bill just hurts people.

  • Rep. Wasserman Schultz Amendment to Big Ugly Bill July 2, 2025

    I filed an amendment last night to ensure SNAP or Medicaid cuts in the Big Ugly Bill can’t take effect unless Secretary Rollins certifies it won’t affect eligibility for free school lunch. Republicans voted no, and shot it down.

  • Rep. Wasserman Schultz Amendment to Big Ugly Bill July 2, 2025

    Yesterday, I filed an amendment to ensure ICE and DHS can’t use taxpayer dollars to blindly put detention facilities in ecologically sensitive areas like the Everglades if it causes environmental harm. Republicans rejected it.

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    The Big Ugly Bill is an abomination. We come to Congress to help people, not hurt them.

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