Maxwell Alejandro Frost (born January 17, 1997) is an American politician and activist serving as the

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for since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was previously the national organizing director for

March for Our Lives March for Our Lives (MFOL) is a student-led organization which leads demonstrations in support of gun control legislation. The first demonstration took place in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2018, with over 880 sibling events throughout ...

. Elected at age 25, Frost is the youngest member and the first

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member of the

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Early life

Frost was born on January 17, 1997, to a Puerto Rican mother of Lebanese descent and a Haitian father. His biological mother had several children. He was adopted from birth; his adoptive mother is a

special education Special education (also known as special-needs education, aided education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, and SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates their individual di ...

teacher who migrated to the United States from Cuba in the

Freedom Flights Freedom Flights (known in Spanish as ''Los vuelos de la libertad'') transported Cubans to Miami twice daily, five times per week from 1965 to 1973. Its budget was about $12 million and it brought an estimated 300,000 refugees, making it the "larg ...

, and his adoptive father is a musician from Kansas. He reconnected with his birth mother in June 2021. Frost attended Osceola County School for the Arts in

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. In high school, he was part of the

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. He attended

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, but did not graduate. For nearly a decade, Frost participated in the cadet program of the

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, attaining the rank of

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Early career

Frost has been organizing since around 2012, when he was active with Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign. He also volunteered with the Newtown Action Alliance, an organization created in response to the

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. He has identified

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, the

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, the

killing of Trayvon Martin On the evening of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, United States, George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American, who was visiting his father while suspended from his Miami-area school. Zimmerman, a 28-yea ...

, and the

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as events that affected his thinking. He later volunteered for

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Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, lawyer and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator represent ...

, and Margaret Good. Frost survived an incident of

gun violence Gun-related violence is violence against a person committed with the use of a firearm to inflict a gunshot wound. Gun violence may or may not be considered criminal. Criminal violence includes homicide (except when and where ruled justifiable ...

at a

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event in

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in 2016. Frost was an organizer with the

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and worked to support Florida's 2018 Amendment 4 and to pressure

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to stop supporting the

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in 2019. He was the national organizing director for

. In November 2021, Frost was arrested at a

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rally in Lafayette Square led by

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and

Ben Jealous Benjamin Todd Jealous (born January 18, 1973) is an American civil rights leader, environmentalist and executive director of the Sierra Club. He served as the president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement ...

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2022

In August 2021, Frost announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for

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. During the primary campaign, he released a television ad in

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, telling '' The Hill'', "Latinos are in a place where their first language is Spanish but they speak English as well, and quite frankly that's me... We speak Spanglish in the house, and I know that's the same for a lot of Latino families in the district." Frost beat

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Randolph Bracy Randolph Bracy III (born April 23, 1977) is an American politician who was a member of the Florida Senate from the 11th district. Bracy's district included parts of central and northwest Orange County. Bracy was the first African American to serv ...

and former

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and

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, among others, in the August23, 2022, primary. Due to the district's Democratic tilt, Frost was expected to win the general election in November 2022, which he did, defeating Republican Calvin Wimbish by a 19% margin, which was smaller than the 32% margin by which

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won the district in 2020. Frost is the youngest member of Congress. He was endorsed by numerous national and local political figures, including

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, former

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president

, civil-rights activist

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, and U.S. senators

and

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Committee assignments

For the

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: * Committee on Oversight and Accountability ** Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce ** Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs *

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** Subcommittee on Environment

Caucus memberships

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Congressional Equality Caucus The Congressional Equality Caucus, formerly the Congressional LGBTQ+ Caucus, was formed by openly gay representatives Tammy Baldwin and Barney Frank on June 4, 2008, to advance LGBT+ rights. The caucus is chaired by the most senior openly ...

* Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment *

Congressional Hispanic Caucus The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) is an organization of 38 Democratic members of the United States Congress of Hispanic and Latino descent. The Caucus focuses on issues affecting Hispanics and Latinos in the United States. The CHC was fo ...

Congressional Progressive Caucus The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) is a congressional caucus affiliated with the Democratic Party in the United States Congress. The CPC represents the progressive faction of the Democratic Party. " e Congressional Progressive Caucus, ...

Political positions

Environment

Frost supports a

Green New Deal The Green New Deal (GND) calls for public policy to address climate change, along with achieving other social aims like job creation, economic growth, and reducing economic inequality. The name refers to the New Deal, a set of changes and ...

. He has identified

environmental justice Environmental justice is a social movement that addresses injustice that occurs when poor or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit. The movement has gene ...

as a priority of his campaign.

Guns

Frost is a strong advocate for

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. In January 2023, Frost and Representative

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sent House speaker

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a letter asking him to convene a classified meeting to address mass shootings. The letter called for the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to conduct the meeting.

Healthcare

Frost supports

single-payer healthcare Single-payer healthcare is a type of universal healthcare, in which the costs of essential healthcare for all residents are covered by a single public system (hence "single-payer"). Single-payer systems may contract for healthcare services from pr ...

and investing in

pandemic prevention Pandemic prevention is the organization and management of preventive measures against pandemics. Those include measures to reduce causes of new infectious diseases and measures to prevent outbreaks and epidemics from becoming pandemics. It is not ...

. He introduced with Representative

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in 2024 the EPIPEN Act, which seeks to cap out-of-pocket costs for

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s used for severe allergic reactions at $60 per two-pack for individuals with health insurance.

Criminal justice

Frost wants to "build toward a future without prison". He supports the

decriminalization of sex work The decriminalization of sex work is the removal of criminal penalties for sex work (specifically, prostitution). Sex work, the consensual provision of sexual services for money or goods, is criminalized in most countries. Decriminalization is ...

and the decriminalization of cannabis use.

Housing

Frost is a proponent of affordable housing. He supported

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's plan to build 3 million new housing units in her first term and believed that increasing housing affordability and accessibility should be a policy priority in a Harris administration. He was endorsed by the Florida chapter of YIMBY Action, a

YIMBY The YIMBY movement (short for "yes in my back yard") is a pro-housing social movement that focuses on encouraging new housing, opposing density limits (such as single-family zoning), and supporting public transportation. It stands in opposition ...

group. Frost co-sponsored the End Junk Fees for Renters Act in 2023, which aims to eliminate extra fees imposed by landlords, ban application fees, and increase transparency in rental agreements.

Iran

Frost believes that the 2015

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(JCPOA) "certainly fell short in ways, but it blocked Iran's ability to build a nuclear weapon, which was an important success". In 2022, he supported restoration of the JCPOA but stressed "we must make it longer, stronger, and broader to cover not just the issue of nuclear weapons, but also the full range of destabilizing and threatening actions Iran engages in, like Iran's ballistic missile program and the country's support for terrorist proxies like

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and

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Israel–Palestine

Frost supports a

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to the

Israeli–Palestinian conflict The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is an ongoing military and political conflict about Territory, land and self-determination within the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine. Key aspects of the conflict include the Israeli occupation ...

and has indicated his intent to travel to Israel to promote "US leadership in bringing peace to a region that so desperately needs and deserves it". He has called himself pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian. In 2022, he supported unconditional U.S. military aid to Israel. He has criticized the Palestinian Authority's martyr's fund that compensates the families of dead and wounded militants, likening it to a recruitment tactic of

for the purpose of committing politically motivated violence against Israel. Frost opposes the

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a nonviolent Palestinian-led movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel. Its objective is to pressure Israel to meet what the BDS movement describes as Israel's ...

(BDS) movement and accuses it of harboring leadership from

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s. Frost had formerly participated in pro-Palestine activism, signing pledges with the Florida Palestine Network (FPN) and the Palestinian Feminist Pledge, calling for support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, ending military aid to Israel, and rejecting the conflation of

anti-Zionism Anti-Zionism is opposition to Zionism. Although anti-Zionism is a heterogeneous phenomenon, all its proponents agree that the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, and the movement to create a sovereign Jewish state in the Palestine (region) ...

with antisemitism. In early August 2022, the Jewish news website ''

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'' published a candidate questionnaire from Frost's congressional campaign that showed a shift in Frost's foreign policy positions on Israel and Palestine. ''Jewish Insider'' characterized his responses as a reversal that distanced himself from his past while declaring an aggressive stance against the BDS movement, calling for unconditional military aid to Israel, and stating his opposition to anti-

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. His campaign later released a

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that formalized these positions. Following the

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, Frost has shown a shift in his views on Israel-Palestine. While Frost voted to provide Israel with initial support following the

October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel On October 7, 2023, Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launched coordinated armed incursions from the Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, the first invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli ...

, as of April 2024 he has voted against providing Israel with further aid, has accused Israel of violating international law during the war, and has stated that "the bombing campaign in Gaza must stop".

Crypto regulation

During his campaign, Frost announced a "crypto-advisory council" that would advise him during his campaign. He received $8,700 in contributions from crypto entrepeneur

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and Sam's brother Gabriel and nearly $1 million in help from the Super-PAC Protect Our Future, almost all of it after announcing the council.

Immigration

Frost is against building a southern border wall. During a January 2024 House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on immigration Frost proposed removing the

Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World''; ) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. The copper-clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of French Thir ...

in response to Republican bill H.R. 2 Secure the Border Act. In March 2025, after former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and his legal status was revoked, Frost stated, that act should “scare everyone.” In April 2025, Frost traveled to

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with three other members of Congress. Frost traveled to El Salvador to advocate for the release of Kilmar Abrego and others that were wrongfully deported.

Personal life

Frost can speak both English and Spanish. He is a

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and plays the

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. His nine-member high school band Seguro Que Sí () performed in the parade during President Obama's second inauguration in 2013. He also enjoys the

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, having played the game since his younger years. Frost is a

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. In December 2022, Frost said he was denied a rental apartment in Washington, D.C., due to a "really bad"

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. He said his credit rating was bad because he "ran up a lot of debt running for Congress for a year and a half". Frost was among a handful of Democrats who received about $1 million in support from former billionaire and felon

's Protect Our Future PAC, as well as the maximum individual donation of $2,900. In December 2022, the U.S. government indicted Bankman-Fried after alleging that he gave investor money to progressive political candidates, among other fraudulent crimes. After the announcement of charges against Bankman-Fried, Frost donated the individual donation to the Zebra Coalition, an

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charity.

Electoral history

References

43. Diamant, Jeff (January 3, 2023
“Faith on The Hill”
''Pew Research Center.'' Retrieved September 7, 2023''.''

External links

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