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Dems Build back better in osceola

Osceola Officials, Winners of the Build Back Better Challenge

  

On September 2, 2022 the President of the United States of America announced Osceola County as one of the 21 winners of the Build Back Better Challenge. A regional economic development competition funded by the American Rescue Plan with oversight provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA). According to EDA.gov and Osceola government officials, the award is to be somewhere in the $50.8 million dollar range. 


The funds are awarded in grants to the Building Central Florida’s Semiconductor Cluster for Broad Based Prosperity.  County commissioners partnered with business owners and other local administrators plan to use the awarded funds as a large investment in Neo City. The investment is designed to assist in making Osceola a national leader in the development and production of microchips. Essentially, helping spur economic diversity while creating high paying jobs for the residents of Osceola. 


In an email circulated by BOCC member Peggy Choudry, Chairman Brandon Arrington is quoted as saying, “Not only is this the first major federal semiconductor investment in the United States, but the site they selected for this historical investment was right here in NeoCity. This is a significant validation of Osceola County’s grand vision to create high-wage, high-tech jobs at NeoCity."


U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo commented, “This is a transformative investment that will diversify the state’s economy, revitalize the community around an industry of the future, and support the development and manufacture of low-volume, highly customized semiconductor products that are vital to Florida’s aerospace, defense, and medical industries."


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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE INVESTS APPROXIMATELY $50.8 MILLION TO BOOST CENTRAL FLORIDA’S SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY THROUGH AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN REGIONAL CHALLENGE

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Florida democratic Party update

Press release

 August 16 2022 For Immediate Release 

Florida Democratic Party 


Florida Democratic Party Applauds President Biden for Fighting for Florida Working Class Families  

By Florida Democratic Party Chairman Manny Diaz:  


“Today, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The new law builds on Democrats’ accomplishments and delivers real results for Florida working-class families by reducing inflation and lowering costs. Thanks to our President and Congressional Democrats, we celebrate another achievement of a historically successful legislative run for Democrats.  “In voting with Florida’s working families over special interests, Democrats are lowering the cost of prescription drugs, health insurance, and everyday energy use. The Inflation Reduction Act will also reduce the deficit while making the wealthiest corporations finally pay their fair share in taxes, something Republicans have long opposed.  “It takes monumental steps that Democrats and voters have sought for decades but which Republicans, backed by special interest groups, have consistently derailed.   “For the first time, Medicare will have the power to negotiate drug prices and cap out-of-pocket expenses, lowering health costs for almost 5 million Floridians on Medicare. The Act extends subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, good news for almost 3 million Floridians who receive healthcare coverage through Obamacare, and it caps the cost of insulin at $35 per month for over 2 million Floridians who have been diagnosed with diabetes.  “And it does all of this without raising taxes on any Americans earning under $400,000, another Biden promise kept.  “Once again, Florida Republicans did just the opposite - protecting drug company profits instead of Florida’s working families. Senators Scott and Rubio, along with all Republican House members, have failed the people of Florida.  “As the cost of living goes up, Floridians - especially seniors and working class families - are having a harder time making ends meet. Many Florida families are forced to choose between putting food on the table and paying their next medication because of out-of-control drug prices.  “Republicans’ decision to protect drug company profits instead of protecting Florida’s working families is cruel and unconscionable.”

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Florida democratic Party update

Press release

 April 1, 2022 For Immediate Release 

Contact: Travis Reuther treuther@floridadems.org 202-340-9652 

Florida Democratic Party 


Statement on March Jobs Report  


Following the news that the US economy added another 431,000 jobs in March, this statement should be attributed to Florida Democratic Party Chair Manny Diaz:  “President Biden’s economic agenda is working. Thanks to the American Rescue Plan and no thanks to Republicans, the country is seeing historic, sustained job creation and the lowest unemployment rate in years. It is clear that Democrats’ agenda is putting money in people’s pockets and getting Floridians back to work in jobs with good pay and good benefits.  “That’s why it is so mind-boggling that Florida Republicans continue to oppose this agenda at every turn. Instead of working with us to create jobs, Republicans are more focused on voting against capping insulin prices and touting their plans to raise taxes and cut healthcare for middle class Floridians.” 

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Florida Democratic PARTY UPDATES

Press Release

April 1, 2022 

For Immediate Release 

Contact: Grant Fox GFox@floridadems.org 301-461-5435 


Marco Rubio Too Weak To Put Principles Over Politics On China  


For career politician Marco Rubio, nothing is more important than advancing his political ambitions. Case in point: while Rubio has called the NBA a “partner of the Chinese government,” he held a campaign fundraiser at an NBA game the day after giving a major speech on standing up to China.   See below for more:   American Independent: Rubio fundraises at NBA game after calling it a 'partner' of 'the Chinese Communist Party'  Key points: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) held a fundraising event at a basketball game in Washington, D.C, on Wednesday night despite his recent criticism of the National Basketball Association for doing business with the Chinese government.  According to an invitation sent by Rubio's campaign fundraising consultant, donors were asked to contribute at least $1,000 to Rubio's reelection campaign to attend the Orlando Magic game against the Washington Wizards. Representatives of corporations and other special interest groups were asked to donate $2,500 from their political action committees in order to join Team Rubio at the Capital One Arena in Washington.  Earlier this month, Rubio co-authored a letter to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver that said, "Over the years, the NBA has continued to overlook the egregious human rights abuses committed by the CCP, allowing the CCP politics to play a significant role in the NBA's business decisions."  Last month, Rubio wrote in National Review editorial under the headline "American Big Business Must Stop Colluding with China." But that does not appear to have altered his own fundraising strategy.  The fundraiser came just one day after Rubio delivered an address to the right-wing Heritage Foundation warning that the "threat of Communist China" was the "gravest threat facing America today."  


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DeSantis and Rubio Have Failed Floridians in the Fight Against COVID

DeSantis and Rubio Have Failed Floridians in the Fight Against COVID

DeSantis and Rubio Have Failed Floridians in the Fight Against COVID

  Marco Rubio Voted Against Critical Funding To Restore The Everglades And Strengthen Supply Chains
Today the White House announced new funding to invest in ports and waterways as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that Marco Rubio and every Florida Republican voted against. This funding will strengthen the country’s shipping infrastructure to help move goods to their destinations faster and makes one of the largest investments on record in restoring the Everglades and protecting Florida’s coastal waterways from the damaging effects of climate change. 
“The Everglades are an essential part of South Florida’s ecosystem, providing clean drinking water for millions and protecting communities from dangerous flooding and storm surges. Yet Marco Rubio was too weak to put his own political agenda aside and vote for legislation to protect and preserve the Everglades for years to come. Floridians who depend on the Everglades can’t depend on Marco Rubio to do what’s best for them,” said Florida Democratic Party spokesperson Grant Fox.  
Some of the most critical new projects that the new funding for ports and waterways Rubio voted against include: 

  • The largest ever single investment in protecting and restoring South Florida’s Everglades 
  • Restoration of coastlines to protect against erosion and flooding in Pinellas County  
  • Funding to enhance waterway infrastructure across the country to improve shipping

Republicans are wrong to blame Joe Biden for high gas prices

DeSantis and Rubio Have Failed Floridians in the Fight Against COVID

DeSantis and Rubio Have Failed Floridians in the Fight Against COVID

 

March 15, 2022 For Immediate Release Contact: Travis Reuther treuther@floridadems.org 202-340-9652 Fact Check: Republicans Wrongly Blame Biden for Rising Gas Prices  Republicans are trying to have it both ways on gas prices – they support President Biden’s ban on imports of Russian oil amid Putin’s unprovoked war on Ukraine, while also blaming the Biden administration for Putin’s price hike. A recent New York Times fact check laid out their hypocrisy.  Read More: New York Times Fact Check: Republicans Wrongly Blame Biden for Rising Gas Prices  WASHINGTON — As gas prices hit a high this week, top Republican lawmakers took to the airwaves and the floors of Congress with misleading claims that pinned the blame on President Biden and his energy policies.  Mr. Biden warned that his ban on imports of Russian oil, gas and coal, announced on Tuesday as a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, would cause gas prices to rise further. High costs are expected to last as long as the confrontation does.  While Republican lawmakers supported the ban, they asserted that the pain at the pump long preceded the war in Ukraine. Gas price hikes, they said, were the result of Mr. Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline, the temporary halt on new drilling leases on public lands and the surrendering of “energy independence” — all incorrect assertions.  […]   “Covid changed the game, not President Biden,” said Patrick De Haan, the head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, which tracks gasoline prices. “U.S. oil production fell in the last eight months of President Trump’s tenure. Is that his fault? No.”  […]  Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has only compounded the issues.  […]  The notion that the United States gained “energy independence” under Mr. Trump, and reversed course under Mr. Biden, is also misleading.  Even before Mr. Trump took office, the United States had been projected to become a net energy exporter in the 2020s “because favorable geology and technological developments result in the production of oil and natural gas at lower costs,” according to the Energy Information Administration.  […]  Moreover, the specific policies cited by Republican lawmakers as evidence of Mr. Biden’s supposed “war on American energy” have had little impact on rising gas prices.  The Keystone XL pipeline, which would have expanded an existing system transporting oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast, has been a political and environmental battleground since its conception in 2008. The Obama administration denied the company behind it, TransCanada, a construction permit in 2015. The Trump administration approved the permit in 2017, but the project stalled in the face of litigation. By the time Mr. Biden rescinded its permit on his first day in office, just 8 percent of it had been built.  […]  Absent the Keystone XL pipeline, crude oil imports from Canada have nonetheless increased by 70 percent since 2008, transported by other pipelines and rail. The Trump administration itself told PolitiFact in 2017 that the pipeline’s impact on prices at the pump “would be minimal.”  The claims about oil and gas leases are even more incorrect.  Though Mr. Biden temporarily halted new drilling leases on federal lands in January 2021, a federal judge blocked that move last June. In its first year, the Biden administration actually approved 34 percent more of these permits than the Trump administration did in its first year, according to federal data compiled by the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group.  “None of these permits are relevant to production right now,” Mr. Rajendran said. “These permits are for production three, four years down the line. If they had approved 10 times as many permits, we would have the same production issues.”  READ THE FULL FACT CHECK HERE. 

Biden's plan to Build Back Better

DeSantis and Rubio Have Failed Floridians in the Fight Against COVID

Vaccination Requirements Are Working

 

Three of the major components of the Build Back Better Agenda are:

  • CLIMATE: Tackling the climate crisis by creating good-paying, union jobs – like those building electric cars - that build a clean energy future, strengthens our nation’s resilience to more frequent extreme weather events, puts people to work capping wells and restoring abandoned mines, and puts in place tax cuts that accelerate clean energy technology and bolster domestic supply chains.
  • HEALTH: Making health care more affordable, lowering health care costs and premiums by extending the American Rescue Plan’s cost savings and closing the Medicaid gap for low-income Americans, and lowering prescription drug costs.
  • FAMILY: Making caring for your family more affordable, extending the Child Tax Credit to cut taxes for middle class families to give them more breathing room, and making child care and elder care more affordable – and helping people, especially women, get back into the workforce.

Vaccination Requirements Are Working

The Path Out of the Pandemic: President Biden’s COVID-19 Action Plan

Vaccination Requirements Are Working

 As more and more businesses and organizations across the country implement vaccine requirements it is becoming clearer every day: Vaccination requirements are working.

  • The White House released a new report on how vaccination requirements are helping to drive up vaccination rates, put people back to work, and strengthen the economy.
  • First, vaccination requirements result in more people vaccinated. They have increased vaccination rates by 20+ percentage points to over 90% in many organizations—across different sectors.
  • United Airlines has over 99% of its 67,000-person workforce in compliance.
  • Houston Methodist got 98% of its workforce vaccinated.
  • Rutgers University got over 99% of their 71,000 students vaccinated or in compliance.
  • Second, vaccination requirements are good for the economy and the labor market. Higher vaccination rates could help up to 5 million workers return back into the workforce as people feel safer to go back to work and no longer have childcare issues. And higher vaccination rates will boost consumer demand and spending as people feel more comfortable dining out at restaurants, shopping at local small businesses, and traveling.
  • Third, vaccination requirements are becoming the standard across all sectors. More than 3,500 organizations have already stepped up to require vaccinations, and thousands more will do the same in the weeks ahead as the president’s vaccination requirements go into effect.
  • Fourth, vaccination requirements have broad public support. Vaccination requirements are nothing new in this country. They have been helping us successfully fight diseases like measles and polio for years. COVID-19 vaccination requirements are supported by businesses, labor unions, workers, students, and a majority of the public support. Why? Because people want this pandemic to be over and understand that getting more people vaccinated is the key to doing that

The Path Out of the Pandemic: President Biden’s COVID-19 Action Plan

The Path Out of the Pandemic: President Biden’s COVID-19 Action Plan

The Path Out of the Pandemic: President Biden’s COVID-19 Action Plan

 Since January 20, we have gone from about three million fully vaccinated Americans to more than 187 million.

  • We are bringing the same wartime spirit and science-based approach that we have always brought to match the scale and type of challenges we face as the virus evolves.
  • President Biden’s COVID-19 action plan focuses on:
  • Vaccinating the Unvaccinated: President Biden announced vaccination requirements that cover an estimated 100 million Americans – two-thirds of all workers – including all employees in the federal government and those at most health care settings.
  • Further Protecting the Vaccinated: President Biden announced there will be enough booster shots available to everyone for free as soon as they are authorized – with a national distribution system ready, providing easy access for all eligible Americans, and ensuring Americans know where to get a booster.
  • Keeping Schools Safely Open: The president called on all governors to require vaccinations for all teachers and staff, will require vaccination for educators at federal Head Start Programs, and is helping increase regular testing at schools. And, any teacher or school official whose pay is withheld by a governor will have that pay restored by the federal government – 100%.
  • Increasing Testing & Requiring Masking: The president’s plan will ensure that every American – no matter their income – can access free, convenient tests. The plan expands easy-to-use testing production through the Defense Production Act, makes tests more affordable, expands free pharmacy testing, and sends free rapid tests to food banks and community health centers. The plan also continues to require masking for interstate travel and on federal property.
  • Protecting Our Economic Recovery: The president announced several programs that will help ensure the U.S. economy continues to grow, including an expansion of the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan program so small businesses can borrow up to $2 million to keep their businesses strong.
  • Improving Care for Those with COVID-19: The administration is strengthening its surge response, with nearly 1,000 personnel already deployed across 18 states and the Department of Defense doubling the number of their teams deployed to support hospitals. The administration is also increasing the weekly pace of monoclonal antibody shipments.

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One year of a Biden Administration

One year of a Biden Administration

One year of a Biden Administration

One Year After President Biden’s Inauguration, Florida’s Economy is Booming
Thanks to the Biden Administration’s efforts, Florida’s economy has experienced dramatic improvement over the past year.
Despite constant opposition and obstruction from Florida Republicans, including Senator Rubio and Governor DeSantis, the Biden Administration h

One Year After President Biden’s Inauguration, Florida’s Economy is Booming
Thanks to the Biden Administration’s efforts, Florida’s economy has experienced dramatic improvement over the past year.
Despite constant opposition and obstruction from Florida Republicans, including Senator Rubio and Governor DeSantis, the Biden Administration has gotten hundreds of thousands of Floridians back to work, passed laws to create jobs and rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, and bolstered the state’s COVID response, increasing the number of vaccinated adults by roughly 75%. 

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One year of a Biden Administration

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