Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Democrat from Washington, has openly admitted she's been working to help communist Cuba get oil — while the rest of us are still paying through the nose every time we pull up to the pump. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida caught wind of it and did what any sane person would do: he torched her publicly.
Let that sink in for a second. A sitting United States congresswoman is doing favors for a communist dictatorship's energy supply. Not her constituents' energy supply. Cuba's.
Jayapal went on record describing Trump's Cuba sanctions as "an economic bombing of the infrastructure of Cuba" and called the situation "a crisis beyond imagination." A crisis beyond imagination. For Cuba. Meanwhile, American families are budgeting around gas prices and grocery bills, but sure — let's make sure Havana keeps the lights on.
You can watch her say these things for yourself here...
https://twitter.com/ShadeSalvo/status/2052099535153819825
President Trump made the administration's position crystal clear back in January when he issued an executive order threatening tariffs on any country supplying fuel to Cuba. His words, in case anyone forgot: "THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA. ZERO." Then on May 1, 2026, Trump signed expanded sanctions to tighten the screws even further.
And it's been working. According to Jayapal herself, since January only one Russian tanker of oil has made it to Cuba — and she admitted that one tanker covers roughly 10 to 14 days of Cuba's oil needs. So the sanctions are choking off the regime's supply line exactly as intended, and Jayapal's mad about it. She's not hiding it. She's bragging about trying to undo it.
That's when Sen. Rick Scott fired off his response, calling her efforts "DISTURBING" and writing directly to House Democrats: "members of your party are OPENLY admitting to aiding a communist adversary." He reminded them that the administration "put those sanctions in place to keep Americans SAFE."
https://twitter.com/SenRickScott/status/2052131715368325454
He didn't mince words, and he shouldn't have. Because what Jayapal is doing isn't some routine policy disagreement. She's actively working to undermine sanctions designed to pressure a hostile communist regime — one that has cozied up to Russia, Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, and Iran for decades. These aren't our friends. These are countries that would love nothing more than to see America weakened.
And who did Scott address his letter to? Rep. Jeffries and the rest of House Democrat leadership. Because this isn't just a Jayapal problem. This is a Democrat problem. Nobody on their side has stood up to condemn it. Nobody has said, "Hey, maybe we shouldn't be running oil errands for the Castro regime's successors." Silence is endorsement.
Here's the part that really gets you. Jayapal described Trump's executive order as "declaring a national emergency over the threats to America posed by Cuba" — her tone dripping with mockery, as if a communist military dictatorship 90 miles off our coast isn't a legitimate national security concern. Apparently in Jayapal's world, the only emergencies worth addressing are the ones that don't involve actual enemies of America.
Breitbart reported on Scott's full statement ripping House Democrats, and honestly, it's the kind of thing that should be playing on loop on every news channel in the country. A U.S. congresswoman admitted — out loud, on the record — that she's been working to help a communist country get around American sanctions. And the media yawned.
We elected Trump to put America first. He put sanctions on Cuba to do exactly that. And now Democrats are openly trying to sabotage those sanctions to keep a communist island's generators humming.
If Jayapal wants to lobby for Cuba's energy needs, maybe she should run for office in Havana. We hear they've got an opening.