Congressman Ted Deutch, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism, led a bipartisan letter with U.S. Representatives Adam Kinzinger, Brendan Boyle, David Trone, Tom Malinowski, Colin Allred, David Cicilline, and William Keating calling on the Trump Administration to strengthen American diplomatic and foreign assistance to respond to the humanitarian situation in Idlib, Syria. In the letter to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo... Read more

Today, U.S. Representative Ted Deutch (FL-22) wrote to U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Jovita Carranza urging the agency to issue the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) advancements of $10,000 within three days as required under the CARES Act. When small businesses apply for the EIDL program, they may request immediate assistance of $10,000 to help cover urgent expenses until their EIDL application is approved. Congress included in the CARES Act a provision requiring the... Read more

U.S. Representative Ted Deutch (D-FL) and U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) on Wednesday sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) pushing for more funding for public defenders during the COVID-19 crisis. In 2019, Harris and Deutch introduced the Ensuring Quality Access to Legal Defense (EQUAL Defense) Act to give public defenders the support and resources they need to ensure integrity in our syst... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) wrote a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Peter Gaynor to raise concerns that vast amounts of personal protective equipment (PPE) are disappearing from FEMA’s view and being lost to a broken private sector supply chain. Last week, the Trump Administration announced a public-private partnership to bring PPE from around the world to the United States. On Friday, FEMA provided a briefing to the Florida congressional delegati... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin expressing concern for the rollout of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for small businesses and requesting additional guidance on its implementation. In the letter, Congressman Deutch acknowledges the obstacles facing small businesses in applying for PPP funds and their "frustration and concern that lenders have been developing and pursuing additional application requirements for small busin... Read more

Today, U.S. Representative Ted Deutch (FL-22) wrote a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to urge her to expeditiously distribute the $14 billion in Higher Education Emergency Relief funds provided by the CARES Act, including the $7 billion in emergency financial aid grants students urgently need. As Rep. Deutch wrote, “it is imperative that you act now to ensure that students swiftly receive the $7 billion in emergency grants that Congress has already made available for them." Wit... Read more

U.S. Representative Ted Deutch (FL-22) joined Representatives Andy Levin (MI-09), Ben Ray Luján (NM-03), Tom Malinowski (NJ-07) and Joe Neguse (CO-02) in sending a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed by 128 House Members requesting that future COVID-19 response packages include stabilization funding specifically for localities with populations under 500,000. While the CARES Act included a $150 billion Coronavirus Relief Fund, the legislation did not allow for localities with populations ... Read more

Today, the bipartisan Palm Beach County legislative delegation - including U.S. Representatives Ted Deutch (FL-22), Alcee L. Hastings (FL-20), Lois Frankel (FL-21), and Brian Mast (FL-18), and members of the Florida Senate and Florida House of Representatives - wrote to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Peter T. Gaynor urging them to support the recently announced Community Based Testing Site to expand novel coronavirus (COVI... Read more

After unanimous passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act by the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) issued this statement: “Our primary goals must be to keep our communities healthy and protect the must vulnerable among us from this virus. However, the economic impact of achieving these goals will be felt deeply by American families and businesses. That’s why, as Americans follow federal, state, and local guidance and practice social dis... Read more

Today, U.S. Representatives Ted Deutch (FL-22) and Lois Frankel (FL-21) wrote to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar urging him to rush necessary testing supplies to Florida to enable the State to utilize more of its COVID-19 testing capacity. Last week, Governor Ron DeSantis announced that the State acquired enough test kits to test 625,000 Floridians, but the orders for testing supplies like sample collection swabs have been delivered in “dribs and drabs.” Despite having enou... Read more