Updates

During the past several months, hundreds of thousands of families across the nation have had a loved one taken by the coronavirus, yet there has been no national reckoning or memorial to acknowledge these tragic losses. With the COVID-19 death toll in Florida nearing 16,000, including more than 3,500 lives lost in Miami-Dade County, Congresswoman […]

Ten Democratic members of Congress from Florida wrote to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday calling for him to utilize federal assistance to expand COVID-19 testing in the state.  “We urge you to, once again, vocally encourage vaccines and boosters, and stop propagating vaccine and booster messages filled with doubt and indifference,” the letter said, noting that cases in

Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) on Thursday called on the Biden administration to immediately end the deportations of Haitian migrants gathered at the southern border, arguing that it is “inhumane” to send people back to a country “in tatters.”  In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Wilson, who along with New York Democratic Reps. Yvette Clarke and Hakeem Jeffries represents the largest Haitian

As elected representatives of the largest Haitian-American community in the United States, we echo our constituents’ concerns about spiraling crises that have upended Haiti. A 90-minute flight from Miami, Haiti’s stability has significant economic and security implications for this country and the region. President Biden has an opportunity to reorient U.S.-Haiti policy to bolster Haitian-led

The effort to increase vaccinations among Black residents continues with a new push to get shots into every arm in the community. The Get Out the Vaccine campaign is being launched by Congresswoman Frederica Wilson to combat mistrust of the vaccine in her district and throughout Miami-Dade. “We’re standing at a memorial cemetery because this

Miami Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson was one of 10 Black lawmakers to meet with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday, when the president voiced his support for changing policing standards and committed to picking a Black woman for the Supreme Court. Wilson, who holds a leadership post in the Congressional Black

The Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys held its first meeting on Tuesday.  Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) introduced legislation establishing the commission following the murder of George Floyd and the nationwide protests sparked in its aftermath. A companion bill introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) passed the Senate in June 2020, and the final act was signed into law that

The remarks from Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) came during a tense House hearing focused on DeVos’s handling of students who claim they were defrauded by for-profit colleges. “I’ve had some honest disagreements with my friends in the Republican Party on how to move education forward but I have never — not one time — believed they were

U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida wrote an op-ed in today’s Washington Post asking for answers on what happened during the October ambush in Niger that left four U.S. soldiers dead. Wilson, who has received national attention for taking on Donald Trump’s administration over how the president spoke to the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, has been drawing attention to a

The fact that Rep. Frederica S. Wilson (D-Fla.) was riding in a limousine with the widow of Sgt. La David T. Johnson when President Trump called comes as no surprise. Nor does the outrage she expressed in one news interview after another in which she stood by her claim that the president’s insensitivity toward the fallen soldier