Debbie Mucarsel-Powell's Story is Florida's Story

While her mother worked double shifts as a home health care provider, Debbie worked at a donut shop to help her family make ends meet. After working her way through high school and college, Debbie worked for Florida International University’s Colleges of Health and Medicine. While at FIU, Debbie helped lead a program to expand access to affordable health care to more Floridians.

Serving in Congress, Debbie fought to expand opportunity for every American. Debbie wrote the bill to expand seniors’ Medicare Advantage coverage, and she worked with Republicans to provide economic relief to families and small businesses, and secured $200 million for Everglades restoration. Today, Debbie takes care of her elderly mother and knows firsthand what it’s like to take care of aging parents while also taking care of her own children.

Now, Debbie is running for the U.S. Senate because our democracy, our economy and our rights are all on the line — and Senator Rick Scott has...

Florida is one of the least affordable states in the nation, but Senator Rick Scott wants to raise taxes on our families and end Social Security and Medicare coverage. As someone who takes care of her elderly mother, Debbie will always fight to protect Medicare, Social Security and access to quality, affordable health care.

And Rick Scott has pushed for a nationwide abortion ban, working to take the rights away of women and their families. Scott supports Florida’s abortion ban with no real exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother.