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Candidates › FL-24 race › 2025–2026
Shevrin "Shev" Jones
DemocraticU.S. House, FL-24Florida
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- Lost the Democratic primaryAug 18, 2026 · 19,029 votes (32.0%) · 2 of 7 · Oliver Gilbert is on the November ballot
- Where to vote
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- Top priorities
- Digital Assets & Financial Innovation
- Fixing North Perry Airport
- Respecting Our Nurses
- Standing Up for Our HBCUs
- AI Regulation for the Public Good
- Money
- $429.6K raised, $429.6K spent, $0 cash on hand (through Sep 30, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 10% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 82% from Florida · largest committee giver AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, $5K
- Outside groups
- $2.2M supporting, $111.6K opposing Jones
- Backed by
- Equality PAC · New Politics · Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida and 69 more. As the campaign lists them
27 priorities from shevrinjones.com, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
South Florida has become one of the nation’s leading hubs for digital assets and financial technology — and the families of Florida’s 24th District deserve to share in that growth, not be shut out of it. They want to see financial innovation not only grow, but they want to be a part of it. I support cryptocurrency and blockchain innovation, and I believe the way to protect financial innovation is with clear rules, transparent government, and real consumer safeguards. After 14 years of work in the Florida Legislature on financial and technology issues, , I know that clarity is not the enemy of innovation — it is what allows innovation to thrive and last. It is past time for Congress to act on clear rules of the road for digital assets and cryptocurrencies so that consumers know what kind of market they are participating in and industry knows the rules they must follow.
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Like most of South Broward, I am tired of the plane crashes near North Perry Airport. It should not fall to the county to run and fund that tower, and the FAA’s neglect is baffling. North Perry is the busiest contract tower in the country, and it is unacceptable that we keep seeing crashes without the federal intervention that safety demands.
When I am elected, this gets addressed immediately. I will call for a meeting with FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford and demand the federal government do its job, so the families who live under these flight paths can finally feel safe in their own neighborhoods.
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STANDING WITH THOSE WHO CARE FOR US ↗ (opens shevrinjones.com/issue/respecting-our-nurses at this heading)
Nurses and healthcare workers held this country together through its hardest days, and this administration has made it clear it does not value them. Under its new student loan rules, nursing is officially not considered a professional degree, cutting off the loan access nurses need for advanced training, discounting their work, and deepening a shortage that hurts every patient and every family.
I will have their backs. In Congress I will work with leaders like Representatives Underwood and Bonamici to invest in the future of the nursing workforce, fight to classify advanced nursing degrees as the professional degrees they are, and pair loan forgiveness with the child care relief in my Essential Worker Tax Credit, because respecting our nurses is not a courtesy. It is how we keep our families healthy.
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A PROUD RATTLER’S COMMITMENT ↗ (opens shevrinjones.com/issue/standing-up-for-our-hbcus at this heading)
As a proud Rattler, I will always stand with our HBCUs. This is work I have already been doing at the national level: President Biden appointed me to serve on the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, where I worked alongside HBCU presidents and national leaders during an administration that delivered historic investments to these institutions. With Florida Memorial University right here in the heart of this district, our HBCU students deserve a seat at every table. I will join the Bipartisan HBCU Caucus, work to pass the IGNITE HBCU Excellence Act, and support HBCU Capital Financing, including relieving the kind of federal construction debt that FAMU is carrying so schools can invest in students instead of loans.
And I will hold the state accountable. The Biden administration documented that Florida underfunded FAMU by nearly two billion dollars compared to the state’s other land-grant university over three decades. The gap was identified. Now the work is making sure Florida actually closes it and makes Florida A&M whole.
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Artificial intelligence is one of the most powerful technologies of our lifetime. It is already reshaping how we find jobs, access healthcare, interact with government services, and experience our daily lives. For communities like ours in District 24, the stakes are enormous: AI done right could open doors long closed to Black workers and families; AI done wrong could automate away our livelihoods, deepen inequality, and leave our communities behind — again.
I am running for Congress to make sure that doesn’t happen. This position paper lays out a clear, commonsense agenda: to keep America the world leader in AI innovation, while making sure that leadership benefits everyone — not just a handful of tech billionaires. We do not have to choose between innovation and accountability. We can have both.
WHY THIS MATTERS TO DISTRICT 24 ↗ (opens shevrinjones.com/issue/ai-regulation-for-the-public-good at this heading)
Our district is majority Black, working-class, and proud. We have lived through waves of economic disruption — from deindustrialization to the financial crisis — and we know what it looks like when powerful forces reshape the economy without asking us first. AI is the next wave, and it is moving fast.
Today, algorithms decide who gets called for a job interview, who qualifies for a loan, who gets flagged by a landlord’s screening software. These systems are often built with biased data and deployed with zero accountability. Without regulation, AI risks supercharging the same systemic inequities our community has fought for generations.
But there is another side to this story. AI is already helping doctors catch cancer earlier. It is helping small businesses compete with larger companies. It is making city services more responsive and accessible. The goal of this agenda is not to slow that progress — it is to make sure District 24 is at the table when the benefits are distributed, not left waiting outside.
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HOUSING AND PROPERTY INSURANCE ↗ (opens shevrinjones.com/issue/keeping-a-roof-over-our-heads at this heading)
A home should be a place of security, not a source of fear every time the mail comes. Right now, families across this district are being priced out of the neighborhoods they built. Greater Miami has become the most cost-burdened major metro in the country, harder on working families than New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco. Nearly six in ten renters here spend more than they can afford on rent, and Florida is the most expensive state in the nation for homeowners insurance, more than double the national average, with Miami-Dade at the very top.
This is not an accident, and it is not the fault of the people paying the bills. It is the result of years of leaders treating housing and insurance as somebody else’s problem. I refuse to.
This is the fight I am already leading. In Tallahassee I filed the People’s Relief Program, a state-funded safety net for families squeezed by housing, utilities, childcare, health care, and property insurance, because affordability is not a slogan to me, it is the whole point. I have asked out loud, on the Senate floor, whether this would finally be the session we deal with what people feel at their kitchen table. In Congress I will carry that same fight to Washington: real investment in affordable and workforce housing, federal action to bring down insurance costs, and protections so that seniors and working families are not taxed out of homes they already own.
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WORKING FAMILY RELIEF ↗ (opens shevrinjones.com/issue/ending-child-poverty at this heading)
When President Biden expanded the Child Tax Credit, this country saw the largest drop in child poverty ever recorded. The expanded credit lifted more than two million children out of poverty on its own, and the credit as a whole reached nearly three million. Then we let it expire, and we watched too many of those same children fall right back.
Ending childhood poverty should not be a Democratic issue or a Republican issue. It is a commonsense issue.
When I am elected, I will work to deliver Working Family Relief by expanding both the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit. We proved it works once. There is no excuse not to do it again, and to make it last this time.
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WHO THIS ECONOMY IS REALLY BUILT FOR ↗ (opens shevrinjones.com/issue/trumps-tax-scam at this heading)
One trillion dollars. That is what Donald Trump handed the wealthiest one percent, and it is more than he cut from Medicaid to pay for it.
Independent analysts found that the top one percent are in line for about a trillion dollars in tax cuts over the next decade under Trump’s law. To cover it, that same law slashes the health care and food assistance that working families rely on. Between the tax breaks tilted to the top and the tariffs he has piled on, regular people pay more so the rich can pay less. Our teachers, our nurses, our restaurant and retail workers, our firefighters, essentially everyone who is not at the very top, carries the bill.
We have to correct this. I will work to undo the misaligned tax policy Trump forced through, and to build a tax code that rewards the people who actually keep this country running instead of the ones who already have the most.
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MAKING THE ULTRA-WEALTHY PAY IN ↗ (opens shevrinjones.com/issue/tax-wealth-not-work at this heading)
When the wealthiest one percent hold more than ten times the wealth of the entire bottom half of this country, something is broken. That is not a reward for hard work. It is hoarding at everyone else’s expense.
When I am elected, I will champion legislation to make billionaires and the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share, so that the money now sitting idle at the very top can help generations of children thrive instead of merely survive. No one is asking the powerful to go without. We are asking them to pay in, like everyone else already does. A paycheck should never be taxed harder than a fortune.
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CHILD CARE RELIEF FOR THE PEOPLE WHO SERVE US ↗ (opens shevrinjones.com/issue/the-essential-worker-tax-credit at this heading)
Every day, our nurses, first responders, teachers, and childcare workers show up for us. But when they drop their own kids off at daycare, our system does not show up for them. Infant care now averages over $1,200 a month, and in 38 states, including Florida, a year of it costs more than a year of in-state college tuition. Child care costs are the number one reason working parents of young children in Florida leave their jobs.
That is why I will introduce the Essential Worker Tax Credit: for public service workers enrolled in Public Service Loan Forgiveness, including nurses, teachers, first responders, and childcare workers, who have a child in licensed daycare and fall under an established income threshold, this credit will substantially reduce or eliminate their childcare costs. No credit like this exists today; the main federal childcare credit tops out around a thousand dollars a year, a fraction of one month of infant care.
These are workers paying down student debt and paying for daycare at the same time, the two heaviest costs a young family carries, hitting in the exact same years. If you serve this community, this community will make sure you can afford to keep serving it.
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TUITION, PELL GRANTS, AND STUDENT DEBT ↗ (opens shevrinjones.com/issue/the-cost-of-college at this heading)
As your State Senator, I did my job. I worked to keep Florida’s college tuition the lowest in the nation, at about half the national average. As your Congressman, I will get the job done in Washington too.
Pell Grants: the federal government stopped keeping its promise. When students went to college in the 1970s, Pell covered the vast majority of what it cost to attend. Fifty years later, it covers about a fourth. We cannot just say we want college to be affordable. We have to make it so. I will fight to double, and if we can, triple the Pell Grant, because if we intend to compete globally, we have to invest in our people.
Student debt: nearly two trillion dollars is holding a generation back. I will fight for real affordability, including canceling student debt, because every dollar we relieve helps the more than forty million Americans carrying it. I will fight to strengthen loan-forgiveness programs like Public Service Loan Forgiveness, which has already forgiven the loans of more than a million public servants and keeps our best and brightest teaching in our schools and serving our communities, and to slash or eliminate the interest that turns a degree into a lifetime of payments. The federal government should not be making money off young people trying to better themselves.
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LEADERSHIP AT THE PUMP ↗ (opens shevrinjones.com/issue/the-price-of-gas at this heading)
The lack of leadership coming from the White House turned the price of gas into a crisis this year, and every family in this district felt it. Prices spiked when foreign policy chaos rattled the oil markets, and families did not get an extra check to cover the difference. When gas jumps a dollar a gallon, that is real money out of real budgets: the home health aide driving between clients, the parent making two school runs and a commute, the small business owner whose delivery costs just exploded.
I will work with my colleagues to take on price gouging when pump prices climb faster than the cost of crude, to use our national reserves to blunt spikes driven by foreign conflicts, and to invest in the transit and energy alternatives that mean a crisis on the other side of the world does not decide whether the people of FL-24 can afford to get to work.
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