Sending Our Best: Incoming House Dem Plans on Couch Surfing Because He Can’t Get Apartment Due to Poor Credit

RMaxwell Frost, D-FL, ep.-elect, revealed that he would likely have to “couch surf” For his first few months in Washington D.C., after being sworn-in, he was denied an apartment because he had bad credit.

“It’s not cheap. I’m dealing with it right now — getting denied from apartments and trying to figure out where to live because I have bad credit,” He spoke to ABC’s This Week Sunday morning “Probably going to have to couch surf for a little bit.”

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The incoming congressman was open about his struggles as he tried to move to one nation’s most expensive housing market.

“Just applied to an apartment in DC where I told the guy that my credit was really bad,” Frost tweet earlier in the month. “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.”

Frost was criticised by a Republican National Committee-aligned Twitter account. “couch surf” Plans wrote in a tweet Frost’s salary of $174,000 annually.

“So out of touch that they don’t understand how renting an apartment works,” The Florida Democrat replied. “I don’t get my first paycheck till February and I don’t have a lot of money. When you move into an apartment, you pay first, deposit, sometimes last, and for furniture.”

“I find it interesting that the ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps’ people take issue with me staying with friends until I save up enough to get an apartment,” Frost tweeted Later in the day.

Frost, a progressive gun-control activist who also worked part time as an Uber driver to help pay campaign costs during last election, will make history by becoming the first Gen Z representative elected to Congress.

“I’m feeling the love especially from a lot of the Democrats and especially in the different caucuses I’m joining,” Frost told the network.

Frost is not the first lawmaker to struggle with Washington’s steep cost of living. Many legislators have lived in Capitol Hill offices, buying Murphy beds or futons.

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The 2018 edition of the New York Post estimated Around 100 members lived in Capitol Hill offices. This list included Paul Ryan, House Speaker (R–WI), Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Leader (R–CA), Dan Donovan and Gregory Meeks (D–NY), Lee Zeldin and John Katko (R–NY), as well as Brian Higgins (D–NY).

Where now-South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem While in Congress, she slept in a pullout bed in her office. She also used the gym facilities to take a shower in the member’s bathroom.