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The congressman-elect set to turn out to be the first member of Generation Z to serve in Congress stated Thursday his rental utility for an condo in Washington, DC, was denied due to his “really bad” credit score.
“Just applied to an apartment in DC where I told the guy that my credit was really bad. He said I’d be fine. Got denied, lost the apartment, and the application fee. This ain’t meant for people who don’t already have money,” Maxwell Frost stated in a tweet.
Frost, an Orlando-based neighborhood organizer, made historical past final month when he gained election in Florida’s tenth Congressional District at simply 25 years outdated. Frost stunned celebration leaders together with his victory in a crowded major stuffed with senior political figures to switch outgoing Rep. Val Demings, earlier than comfortably successful in opposition to his Republican opponent in a solidly blue district.
In a Twitter thread, the congressman-elect expressed frustrations with relocating to the capital, saying that he has low credit score as a result of he “ran up a lot of debt running for Congress for a year and a half” and that he didn’t make sufficient cash working for Uber to pay for the price of dwelling.
Frost stated that he stop his full time job throughout his race’s major, as a result of “I knew that to win at 25 yrs old, I’d need to be a full time candidate. 7 days a week, 10-12 hours a day. It’s not sustainable or right but it’s what we had to do.”
“As a candidate, you can’t give yourself a stipend or anything till the very end of your campaign,” he added. “So most of the run, you have no $ coming in unless you work a second job.”
Act Daily News has reached out to Frost’s workplace for remark.
In feedback to The Washington Post, Frost declined to establish the constructing, the scale of his debt or credit score rating, however stated the constructing the place his utility was rejected was within the metropolis’s Navy Yard neighborhood, roughly a mile from the US Capitol. He stated he misplaced the $50 utility charge.
Frost isn’t the one incoming member of Congress to have struggled to search out housing in DC.
On Twitter, he referenced New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who, in 2018 grew to become the youngest lady elected to Congress at age 29 – and who additionally had a exhausting time as an incoming lawmaker discovering inexpensive housing in Washington on her then-salary.
Frost identified that when his congressional wage kicks in, he’ll be positive, including that “we have to do better” for others.
“I also recognize that I’m speaking from a point of privilege cause in 2 years time, my credit will be okay because of my new salary that starts next year,” Frost stated. “We have to do better for the whole country.”
Members of the House and Senate earn $174,000 a yr, in keeping with the Congressional Research Service, however that wage is not going to start till Frost is sworn in on January 3.