Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “The proposed--the proposal from Republican leadership to cut funding back to Fiscal Year 2022 levels across the board…”

This change will significantly impede efforts to protect and conserve our nation’s threatened and endangered species of fish, wildlife and plants.

The rule change directly threatens the unique habitats that support the plants and animals for which our state is renowned.

I fight every single day to help improve the lived experience of the people that I represent.

This rule will significantly weaken the ESA and usher in the often-irreversible loss of habitat, hastening the extinction of plants and animals that are a vital part of our state’s culture and tourism economy.