The United States is pulling back from its role in spreading democratic ideals abroad under President Donald Trump.

Every member of Congress was up for election this year. Of the seven South Florida districts, six lean Democrat or Republican, but one is so evenly split that voters have flipped the district a few times over the last decade.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Glenna Milberg welcomes Rep. Maria Salazar, Republican Party of Florida Vice Chair Evan Power, Miami Herald Miami Government reporter Joey Flechas, Herald investigative reporter Sarah Blaskey, and WLRN accountability reporter Josh Ceballos.

One of the biggest national stories during the first week of 2024 hits home in South Florida. The decades-old unsolved border and immigration crisis that blew up again.

On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg welcomes Israel’s Consul General to South Florida Maor Elbaz Starinsky, South Floridian with family in Gaza Hakeem Basheer, Rep. Maria Salazar, State Sen. Tina Polsky and State Rep. Joel Rudman.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Glenna Milberg welcomes Israel’s Consul General to South Florida Maor Elbaz Starinsky, South Floridian with family in Gaza Hakeem Basheer, Rep. Maria Salazar, State Sen. Tina Polsky and State Rep. Joel Rudman.

In Washington D.C. last week, there an unprecedented scramble to seat a house speaker became even more urgent.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Michael Putney chats with Rep. Maria Salazar, Vice President of the Florida Education Association Carole Gauronskas, State Rep. Daniel Perez and Dr. Teri Stockman.

A South Florida Republican congresswoman got into a verbal spat last week with Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg are joined by Florida lawmakers Rep. Daniel Perez and Sen. Jason Pizzo, Broward County Mayor Michael Udine and Feeding South Florida President and CEO Paco Velez.

On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg speak with Rep. Maria Salazar, Elvin Dowling, Phil Jackson, Emmanuel Morel, Priscilla Taylor, Joe Geller and J.C. Planas. The full episode can be seen at the top of this page.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg speak with Rep. Maria Salazar, Elvin Dowling, Phil Jackson, Emmanuel Morel, Priscilla Taylor, Joe Geller and J.C. Planas.

A member of Congress from Miami-Dade County is facing a big vote this week.

A group demanding to restart the cruising industry brought together cruise line CEOs, longshoremen and politicians on both sides of the aisle.

MIAMI – A day after touring the U.S. southern border in Texas, Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-FL District 26 described what he saw as a “humanitarian crisis.”Gimenez discussed touring a facility that housed hundreds of migrant children between the ages of 4 and 17. “It really broke my heart to see those hundreds of kids,” he said in a news conference at Miami International Airport. Ad“We feel it’s due to the change of policy of the Biden administration, and we call on the Biden administration to reverse that stance,” Gimenez said Tuesday. Gimenez says the president should visit the border. Gimenez said the group of lawmakers was also told Monday by those protecting the border that they need more Customs and Border Patrol agents and need certain portions of the border wall finished, in addition to better technology.

MIAMI – During a live appearance Sunday on Local 10′s “This Week in South Florida,” new Congresswoman Maria Salazar accused her predecessor Donna Shalala of “refusing” to transfer constituents’ case work in the transition between offices after the November election. “Not in any moment in time [was there a refusal to help in the transition],” Shalala’s former deputy chief of staff Raul Martinez, Jr. said. AdSalazar said Shalala’s office notified her office of just two or three cases. While there is no indication Shalala’s office willfully refused to transition the cases, Salazar stands by her accusation. Salazar’s interview on “This Week in South Florida” can be watched below:

As a resurgence of the pandemic in the fall looked set to overwhelm Portuguese care homes, the government mobilized all the resources it could. Some of the home’s residents, suddenly confined to their rooms or their floor, were bewildered and chafed at restrictions, even trying to take the elevator and escape confinement. The soldiers’ mission: fan out across the country to visit hundreds of nursing homes and help shore up their defenses against the pandemic. On top of that, nursing home staff in Portugal commonly work in several different care homes and travel between them on public transport. They have already been to more than half of the targeted 2,770 care homes.