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MIAMI, Fla. — U.S. Representative María Elvira Salazar (FL-27) joined Mount Sinai Medical Center leaders, healthcare professionals, and members of the South Florida community for the ribbon cutting of Mount Sinai’s new Emergency Center in Westchester, located in Florida’s 27th Congressional District.

The new four-story facility will expand access to emergency treatment, advanced diagnostic imaging, and behavioral health services for families in Westchester and surrounding communities. It is scheduled to open to patients in October.

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — U.S. Representative María Elvira Salazar (FL-27) visited Key Biscayne to deliver more than $2.4 million in federal funding she secured for two projects that will help address flooding around Key Biscayne K-8 Community School and explore a long-term solution to shoreline erosion.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Representative María Elvira Salazar (FL-27), Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, convened a hearing titled “Confronting the Totalitarian Ortega-Murillo Regime,” examining the dictatorship’s repression of the Nicaraguan people, its growing cooperation with America’s adversaries, and the threat it poses to U.S. national security.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representative María Elvira Salazar (FL-27) joined Representatives Carol Miller (R-WV), Steven Horsford (D-NV), and Chris Pappas (D-NH) in introducing the bipartisan Stronger Start for Working Families Act, legislation that would lower the earned-income threshold for the refundable Child Tax Credit from $2,500 to $1.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, María Elvira Salazar (R-FL)  U.S. Representatives Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) co-chairs of the House Tuberculosis Elimination Caucus, introduced the End Tuberculosis Now Act of 2026. This bipartisan legislation would strengthen U.S. efforts to prevent, diagnose, treat, and ultimately eliminate tuberculosis (TB) worldwide. A group of seven bipartisan Representatives joined as original cosponsors.

MIAMI, FL — Today, Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar (FL-27) joined Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling and South Florida restaurant leaders for a roundtable focused on No Tax on Tips, the pressures facing locally owned restaurants, and the industry’s need for a stable, legal workforce.

VATICAN CITY — U.S. Representative María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) spoke today with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, where she raised the issue of immigration in the United States and personally presented the Holy Father with information about the DIGNITY Act (H.R. 4393), her bipartisan immigration reform legislation.

MIAMI, Fla. — Rep. María Elvira Salazar (FL-27) visited the West Miami Multigenerational Center alongside West Miami Mayor Eric Díaz-Padrón, Vice Mayor Iván Chávez, and city leaders to see firsthand how the $1 million in federal funding she secured is improving the lives of children, families, seniors, and residents across the community.