Maria Elvira Salazar

The lone South Florida Republican to join Democrats was U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, of Miami, whose congressional district has one of the highest ACA enrollment rates in the country.

South Florida lawmakers, who have long been united in their bipartisan condemnation of the Venezuelan regime led by President Nicolás Maduro, on Saturday morning applauded the Trump administration, and U.S. military and U.S. law enforcement authorities, for capturing the “narco-terrorist” and bringing him to justice in the U.S.

All eight Florida congressional Democrats, including South Florida’s five U.S. Representatives, voted in favor of two resolutions to invoke the War Powers Act of 1973, which was intended to reassert congressional power over the declaration of war.

“Let’s be clear, in Virginia and New Jersey, the GOP would have had a much better chance of winning if the Hispanic vote would have stuck with the GOP," Salazar said in her widely viewed social media post

The measure — the Keep SNAP Funded Act of 2025 (H.R. 5822) — would direct the U.S. Department of Agriculture to maintain full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, operations throughout any lapse in government funding.

Even before the federal government shut down Wednesday, Democratic and Republican lawmakers in South Florida were engaging in partisan finger pointing on who's to blame for the legislative standoff.

President Trump failed to revoke DACA in his first term and his focus on immigration this time has mostly ignored the policy. Still, Republican lawmakers are deferring to the president on the issue.

Robin Peguero is blasting the Miami Republican lawmaker for voting against a critical infrastructure project in Cutler Bay — and then championing its approval.

The Cuban government is directly involved in Russia's war against Ukraine by providing thousands of Cuban mercenaries, making the communist island nation one of the largest foreign sources of troops for the Kremlin, Ukrainian intelligence officials told South Florida's Cuban-American members of Congress.

Richard Lamondin, a Miami-based environmental services company co-founder, is running for the Democratic nomination to challenge incumbent U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar in the 2026 midterm election. Lamondin is a long shot, as the 27th congressional district is identified as a "solid Republican" seat

A bipartisan group South Florida lawmakers want the street in front of the Cuban government’s embassy in Washington renamed after a prominent Cuban dissident killed 13 years ago this month in a mysterious car crash in Cuba.

More than two dozen labor, community, and advocacy groups have formed the Battleground Alliance, a political action committee aligned with Democrats to target three Republican-held congressional House districts in Florida, including the South Florida seat held by U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar.