Maxwell Frost

Maxwell Alejandro Frost (born January 17, 1997) is an American politician and activist serving as the U.S. representative for since 2023. Previously, he was the national organizing director for March for Our Lives. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Frost was first elected to Congress in 2022 at age 25. He is the first ever Generation Z member of the United States Congress. Early life Frost was born in Orlando, Florida, 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 at birth by Maritza Argibay-Frost, a Cuban immigrant and special education teacher, and Patrick Frost, a Kansas-born musician-producer. He reconnected with his birth mother in June 2021.

Frost attended Osceola County School for the Arts in Kissimmee, Florida. In high school, he was part of the Technology Student Association. He attended Valencia College, but did not graduate. For nearly a decade, Frost participated in the cadet program of the Civil Air Patrol, attaining the rank of cadet major.

Early career Frost has been organizing since around 2012, when he was active with Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign. He later volunteered for the campaigns of Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Margaret Good.

Frost was an organizer with the American Civil Liberties Union and worked to support Florida's 2018 Amendment 4 and to pressure Joe Biden to stop supporting the Hyde Amendment in 2019. In November 2021, Frost was arrested at a voting rights rally in Lafayette Square led by William Barber II and Ben Jealous.

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2022

Frost and the 118th Congress are sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives, 2023 In August 2021, Frost announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Florida's 10th congressional district. During the primary campaign, he released a television ad in Spanglish, 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 state Senator Randolph Bracy and former U.S. Representatives Alan Grayson and Corrine Brown, 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 Biden won the district in 2020. Frost is the youngest member of Congress. He was endorsed by numerous national and local political figures, including Jesse Jackson, former NAACP president Ben Jealous, civil-rights activist Dolores Huerta, and U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

Committee assignments For the 119th Congress: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee on Government Operations Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

Caucus memberships Black Maternal Health Caucus Congressional Black Caucus Congressional Equality Caucus Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment Congressional Hispanic Caucus Congressional Progressive Caucus Congressional Freethought Caucus

Political positions Frost, President Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive to the Rose Garden for an announcement on the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention in September 2023.

Environment Frost supports a Green New Deal.

Healthcare Frost supports single-payer healthcare and investing in pandemic prevention.

Criminal justice Frost wants to "build toward a future without prison".

Housing

Frost is a proponent of affordable housing. He supported Kamala Harris's plan to build three 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 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 Iran nuclear deal (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 Hezbollah and Hamas." He has criticized the Palestinian Authority's Martyrs Fund that compensates the families of dead and wounded militants, likening it to a recruitment tactic of Hamas for the purpose of committing politically motivated violence against Israel. Frost opposes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and accuses it of harboring leadership from terrorist organizations. In early August 2022, the Jewish news website Jewish Insider published a candidate questionnaire from Frost's congressional campaign that showed a shift in Frost's foreign policy positions on Israel and Palestine. 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".

In November 2025, Frost co-sponsored a resolution recognizing Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide.

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 entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried and Sam's brother Gabriel, and he was among a handful of Democrats who received about $1 million in help from the super PAC Protect Our Future, almost all of it after announcing the council. 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 LGBTQ charity.

Immigration Frost is opposed to building a southern border wall. During a January 2024 House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on immigration, Frost proposed removing the Statue of Liberty in response to the 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 remarked that his arrest should "scare everyone". In April 2025, Frost traveled to El Salvador with three other members of Congress to advocate for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and others who had been deported without due process by the Trump administration.

Frost conducted multiple oversight visits to "Alligator Alcatraz", a temporary immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, and publicly raised concerns about detention conditions and alleged human rights abuses. He continued calling for investigations and accountability after the facility's closure.

Personal life

Frost can speak both English and Spanish. He also enjoys the trading-card game Yu-Gi-Oh!, having played the game since his younger years.

In December 2022, Frost said that he was denied a rental apartment in Washington, D.C., due to a "really bad" credit history. He explained that his credit rating was bad because he "ran up a lot of debt running for Congress for a year and a half".

On January 24, 2026, Frost stated that he was the victim of racial assault at Sundance Film Festival the day prior. According to Frost's account, a man told him that "Trump was going to deport [him]" before punching him in the face. Following the alleged attack, Frost mentioned that he was not seriously injured and that the man was arrested.

Electoral history + Year Office Party Primary General Result Swing . Total % . Total % . 2022 U.S. House Democratic 19,288 34.77% 1st 117,955 59.00% 1st Hold 2024 33,208 81.77% 1st 181,455 62.37% 1st Hold 2026 Canceled Unopposed Hold Source: Secretary of State of Florida Election Results