By Alissa Quart,
In 2022, after Maxwell Frost was elected to Congress at age 25, he announced he would be living with friends while saving money and looking for a place. When the Republican National Committee mocked him for couch surfing, Frost responded: “I don’t get my first paycheck till February and I don’t have a lot of money.” He was, he said, rebutting “the ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps’ people.”
He is not the only member of the new Congress to reveal a modest financial position. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D), an auto body shop owner who won a surprising 2022 victory in a red district of Washington state, told the media, “I’ve never bought a new car in my life” and has argued that our country needs more people governing who worked in trades.
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