Wasserman Schultz Sounds Alarm on High Gas Prices, Highlights Local Impacts

Pembroke Pines, FL - Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) joined constituents and Teamsters Union representatives to sound the alarm on skyrocketing gas prices and highlight its impacts on the South Florida community.

To watch the press conference, click here.

Wasserman Schultz was joined by Broward County AFL-CIO president and Teamsters Local 769 member Andy Madtes, Teamsters Local 769 member Josh Zivalich, small business owner Julie Pray, and private music teacher Cari Barter. Teamsters leaders discussed how the hikes harm members, and Pray shared how she was forced to close her small business due to high gas prices. Barter has been forced to give up on students who live farther away and has had to cancel doctors appointments for her special needs children because of skyrocketing fuel costs.

"Life is too expensive. Food prices are up. Rent and home insurance costs keep climbing. Healthcare costs - if you can even afford coverage at all - are doubling and tripling for some of us," said Wasserman Schultz. "And now I fear this war against Iran is only going to make matters worse on our families as gas prices take a bigger bite out of family and small business budgets. Worse, rising diesel costs will drive up food prices our community just cannot afford right now. I'll fight for solutions, like raising wages, and crackdowns on price gouging by oil companies."

Since President Trump launched his war in Iran without Congressional approval, Americans are paying 35 percent more at the pump, and escalating diesel fuel, fertilizer and other rising costs from the conflict are driving up prices all Americans must pay.

Though Trump campaigned on a pledge to lower prices, gasoline alone has spiked to more than $4 a gallon since the start of Trump's war. Now, families must deal with high gas prices on top of other rising food, housing, and healthcare costs from Trump's chaotic tariffs and corrupt economic policies that favor billionaires over working families.

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