Veterans

I was able to help secure major veterans and Everglades investments while also blocking GOP assaults on abortion rights. Read more »

I fought for years to make changes in the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill to replace their outdated and discriminatory policy and expand these benefits to veterans equitably. Our servicemembers put their lives on the line for our country and deserve equal access to the tools and resources available to start their own families. Read more »

“We were able to get directly to the right people for him, and that the necessary pieces of evidence that were needed to prove the money was actually stolen, and to help him through the process of the bank’s appeal, and then going to the taxpayer advocate service to make sure once the money was returned to the IRS, that it was sent directly to him,” said Wasserman Schultz. Read more »

This ‘laddered CR’ proposal is yet another spending bill driven by the extremist, irresponsible House Freedom Caucus, and one that recklessly opens the door to a double whammy shutdown and is intended to hold vital funding hostage to fulfill extreme Republican funding goals. 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 »

As Ranking Member on the House Appropriations Subcommittee that ensures our nation’s veterans have the resources and support they need, I refuse to back a vicious default scheme that threatens to rob $2 billion in health care services from those who served, and exposes veterans to massive future service cuts. This bill is a cowardly insult to their brave sacrifices. 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 »

This bill demonstrates an unwavering commitment to our brave servicemembers, their families and to our Veterans. Read more »

This package funds critical local projects, and boldly confronts America’s larger challenges, like growing our middle class, rethreading our safety net, and confronting climate change Read more »

Our nation must respond to the true impact of war, and our veterans must not bear that burden alone, often decades after their service, amid a cloud of medical uncertainty. I am very proud President Biden clearly committed to address the needs of veterans who encounter brutal environmental hazards like burn pits while serving our nation. Read more »