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Moskowitz is pivoting to the newly created 25th district, which stretches along the coast from Delray Beach to Miami Beach. Its an area Trump won in 2024 by about 9 percentage points.

“Former Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick abused Americans’ trust in the most egregious way possible. She manipulated the COVID-19 crisis to funnel over $5 million dollars of FEMA relief funds to her and her family members,” said James Percival, DHS General Counsel. “This is outright fraud."

The vote came just two days after Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled his proposal and the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. The decision could make it harder for Democrats to challenge Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts in ways that limit the influence of nonwhite voters.

Tuesday’s resignation of Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick leaves hundreds of thousands of South Floridians in parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties without a representative in Congress. The seat may remain empty for some time — or at least until next year when a new lawmaker gets elected in November.

Two South Florida Republican lawmakers joined with Democrats on Thursday to push forward a bill in the House that would reinstate Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for 350,000 Haitians in the United States.

The drumbeat to boot U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick from Congress is growing louder in Washington.

The full Committee will meet in Washington, D.C., to determine what, if any, sanctions will be recommended to the U.S. House of Representatives. She could be expelled from Congress.

Hector Mujica, a Venezuelan-American who left his longtime job at Google to run for the U.S. Senate in Florida, is leaving the statewide race to compete in the Democratic primary for the 28th congressional district currently held by Republican U.S. Rep. Carlos Giménez.

Senate Democrats have filed legislation that would prevent the U.S. from attacking Cuba without congressional approval. It's a move that comes in response to President Donald Trump’s stated goal of a “takeover” of the Caribbean country.

Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani who was a key figure in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment investigation, is joining a crowded field of Democratic candidates seeking to unseat Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar.

The congresswoman has been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee since May 2024 and last year was indicted by the Department of Justice for allegedly stealing $5 million in COVID relief funds.

Peru's Congress has voted to remove interim President José Jerí from office as he faces corruption allegations. The move triggers a fresh wave of political instability just weeks before the April presidential and congressional elections. Jerí is under a preliminary investigation over his undisclosed meetings with two Chinese executives.