Issues

Florida’s working-class families are spending more hours on the job but receiving less in their paycheck than ever before. Rent, insurance, and grocery store costs are climbing far higher than paychecks can keep up with, and too many young people are being priced out of the communities they grew up in. This isn't bad luck or a lack of hard work - it's the result of deliberate political choices that have prioritized corporate profits over our basic needs. By investing in affordable housing, expanding clean and reliable energy to lower utility bills, tackling predatory insurance practices, and protecting workers’ rights, Florida can become a place where a decent job means a good life. The cost of living shouldn’t cost us our dignity.

America’s farmers are working harder than ever while earning less, aging out, and facing the front lines of extreme weather. In Florida, heatwaves, saltwater intrusion, and stronger storms threaten our food supply, yet Washington continues to gut the Farm Bill. My plan creates a national carbon farming program that rewards farmers for regenerative practices like cover cropping, agroforestry, and rotational grazing. I will redirect subsidies from polluting megafarms to sustainable small and mid-sized farms, while expanding protections for farmworkers. This is personal for me—I grew up around farming, and my PhD research is in sustainable agricultural policy. Unlike Trump and Cammack, who side with corporate agribusiness, I’ll stand with the farmers who feed us and the consumers facing skyrocketing grocery bills.

No one should be priced out of a future. For Gen Z, the average age to afford a first home is creeping into the mid-30s, while mortgage rates and rent swallow nearly half of people’s income. In Florida’s CD3, rapid growth threatens to benefit developers, not current residents. I’ll fight for first-time homebuyer support, federal housing funds tied to zoning reform, and walkable neighborhoods. My plan includes expanding the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act, linking student loan forgiveness to housing stability, and establishing a Federal Resilience Rebate to rein in insurance premiums. Without an extreme weather resilience plan, housing is a ticking time bomb—and without housing, there is no future.

You paid in—you earned it—and I will fight like hell to protect it. Right now, Republicans in Congress are working to defund Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, threatening the benefits that millions of Americans depend on. I’ll fight to expand Social Security, lift the payroll cap so the wealthy pay their fair share, and increase monthly benefits to reflect today’s cost of living. Medicare must be modernized—lower eligibility to 60, cap out-of-pocket costs, and expand coverage to dental, vision, and hearing. Medicaid should be fully funded, block grants stopped, and rural nursing homes supported. This isn’t about budgets—it’s about dignity, and I know the policy and the people to defend it.