Frost was born on January 17,1997,to a mother of Lebanese and Argentine descent and a Haitian father.[3][4] His biological mother had several children.[5] He was adopted from birth;his adoptive mother is a special education teacher who migrated to the United States from Cuba in the Freedom Flights,and his adoptive father is a musician from Kansas.[6] He reconnected with his birth mother in June 2021.[6][7] Frost attended Osceola County School for the Arts in Kissimmee,Florida.[8] In high school,he was part of the Technology Student Association. He attended Valencia College but dropped out before his senior year.[6][9]
In August 2021,Frost announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Florida's 10th congressional district.[15] 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."[16]
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
In January 2023,Frost and Representative Jared Moskowitz sent House speaker Kevin McCarthy 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.[28]
Frost is a proponent of affordable housing. He supported Kamala Harris'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.[31][needs update] He was endorsed by the Florida chapter of YIMBY Action,[32] 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.[33]
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".[34] 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."[34]
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 with antisemitism.[39] 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.[38]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-Zionism.[36] His campaign later released a position paper that formalized these positions.[35][38]
Following the war in Gaza,Frost has shown a shift in his views on Israel-Palestine. While Frost voted to provide Israel with initial support following the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel,[40][41] 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".[42][43]
Crypto regulation
During his campaign,Frost announced a "crypto-advisory council" that would advise him during his campaign.[44] He received $8,700 in contributions from Sam Bankman-Fried and his brother and nearly $1 million in help from the Super-PAC Protect Our Future,almost all of it after announcing the council.[45]
Immigration
Frost is against building a southern border wall.[46] During a January 2024 House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on immigration Frost proposed removing the Statue of Liberty in response to Republican bill H.R. 2 Secure the Border Act.[47][48]
Personal life
Frost plays drums at an event in support of the CREATE Art Act,2024
In December 2022,Frost said he was denied a rental apartment in Washington,D.C.,due to a "really bad" credit history. He said his credit rating was bad because he "ran up a lot of debt running for Congress for a year and a half".[52]
Frost was among a handful of Democrats who received about $1 million in support from former billionaire and felon Sam Bankman-Fried's Protect Our Future PAC,as well as the maximum individual donation of $2,900.[53] 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.[54] After the announcement of charges against Bankman-Fried,Frost donated the individual donation to the Zebra Coalition,an LGBTQ charity.[55]
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