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Candidates › FL-24 race › 2025–2026
Oliver Gilbert
D Democratic nominee for U.S. House, FL-24
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- On the general election ballotNov 3, 2026 · Florida US House 24
- Where to vote
- Find your polling place (opens in a new tab) · More ways to vote
- Top priorities
- Stopping Trump. Building the Next America. For everyone.
- BUILD Business Act
- 02/The BUILD Act Solution
- BUILD Business Act
- 02/The CARE Act
- Money
- $1.5M raised, $1M spent, $427.3K cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 1% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 93% from Florida · largest committee giver NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, $10K
- Outside groups
- $663.6K supporting, $2.3M opposing Gilbert
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A two-hour commute isn’t a transit problem. It’s a family problem, a cost problem, and a life problem.
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Nobody should wait until it’s too late to see a doctor because of the bill. Coverage isn’t a luxury. It’s a foundation.
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Small businesses and working families built South Florida. They deserve a federal government that builds with them — not around them.
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We’re the richest country on earth, but we send billions of dollars to other countries so they can afford universal healthcare. How does that make sense? In Congress, Oliver will fight for a pathway to ensure that healthcare is a right for every American.
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Families who are working hard to make ends meet shouldn’t have to carry the same tax burden as billionaires. The IRS should be spending more time auditing the ultra-wealthy than scrutinizing an Uber driver’s gas deduction. Oliver supports common sense tax policies indexed to what families in our communities actually earn, so that relief reaches the people who need it most and keeps money in working people’s hands.
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Our government has shamefully spent billions ripping families apart. They said ICE would only target criminals, but every day more and more hardworking people are being arrested and deported, often leaving young children behind to fend for themselves or leaving the only country they’ve ever known. It’s time to end funding for these shameful deportation policies and redirect that investment where it belongs: into our communities.
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Countries around the world have made universal childcare a reality. As a father, Oliver knows the challenges families are facing every day. In Washington, he will redirect spending toward our children and families, so that the resources no longer being wasted on mass deportations start building something that actually lasts.
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In Congress, Oliver will fight to secure the federal funding needed to ensure the job gets done, and that our residents get the transit solutions they’ve been promised for decades.
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Oliver will fight in Washington to reinvest in job training, especially in high-paying technical fields that can’t easily be taken away by AI, and to strengthen support for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
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America should not only be the best place in the world to work. It should be the best place in the world to start a business.
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy. The BUILD Business Act modernizes the Small Business Administration by expanding access to capital, reducing barriers to entrepreneurship, and helping more Americans start, grow, and expand successful businesses.
Too many entrepreneurs have the talent and determination to succeed but cannot access the capital needed to get started. The BUILD Business Act closes that gap by pairing affordable financing with mentorship, accountability, and streamlined government.
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College ready. Trade ready. Life ready.
Every student deserves a pathway to purpose. The BUILD Act prepares students for the economy of tomorrow by connecting education to real careers, expanding apprenticeships, supporting teachers, rewarding innovation, and building the workforce America needs to compete.
Future ReadyPublic Schools
Career Training& Apprenticeships
In-Demand CareersStronger Workforce. Stronger America.
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Every person with a lifelong disability deserves healthcare, a safe home, meaningful relationships, and the support to live with dignity throughout every stage of life.
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The HOME Act lowers monthly housing costs without weakening lending standards — helping responsible families own a home, build generational wealth, and gain long-term financial stability.
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Startup grants and affordable financing to get your idea off the ground.
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The SBA Growth Line offers low-interest loans to help you scale up.
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A strengthened SBA 504 program makes buying property and expanding easier.
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Employee ownership and profit-sharing incentives that help workers build wealth.
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Less paperwork, simpler reporting, and faster approvals for small businesses.
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Small Business Opportunity Zones that revitalize local commercial corridors.
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Nine ways the BUILD Act builds America's workforce. Tap any item to expand.
Future Ready Public Schools
Federal incentive grants reward school districts that develop career pathways in AI, cybersecurity, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, logistics, infrastructure, entrepreneurship, aerospace, and the skilled trades.
Trade Ready by Graduation
Every student graduates college ready, trade ready, entrepreneurially ready, or workforce ready through certifications, dual enrollment, apprenticeships, and career pathways.
BUILD Service Compact
Educational assistance for trade school, college, graduate school, and professional school in exchange for service in designated national priority industries.
Enhanced Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Expand and modernize loan forgiveness for teachers, nurses, first responders, military personnel, public defenders, and other public service professionals.
BUILD Excellence Grants
Competitive federal grants reward districts that embrace innovation, workforce readiness, measurable outcomes, and industry partnerships.
Teacher Excellence Incentive
Enhanced grants for districts investing in teacher compensation, teacher retention, mentoring, and professional development. Teachers are America's first responders for the future.
BUILD Fellows Program
Accomplished professionals including engineers, physicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, artists, musicians, architects, attorneys, journalists, software developers, skilled trades professionals, veterans, and researchers may co-teach advanced courses for one semester. Certified teachers remain the teacher of record while BUILD Fellows contribute real-world expertise.
BUILD Distinguished Districts
National recognition and additional grant eligibility for school districts demonstrating exceptional workforce preparation and student success.
Building Strength in HBCUs
Increase funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other colleges that provide education to underserved communities.
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Eleven concrete actions to help Americans start, grow, and expand small businesses. Tap any item to expand.
Expand Startup Grant Opportunities
Create the American Small Business Grant Program providing grants of $5,000 to $25,000 for equipment, inventory, software, licensing, insurance, lease deposits, and other startup costs.
Goal:Give entrepreneurs access to capital before debt becomes necessary.
Create Affordable Growth Financing
Establish the SBA Growth Line offering low interest loans, generally from 0% to 2%, with deferred repayment.
Goal:Help growing businesses scale without being overwhelmed by early debt.
Modernize SBA Lending
Strengthen the SBA 7(a) program by increasing federal guarantees, reducing borrower fees, simplifying approvals, speeding processing, and expanding lending in underserved communities.
Strengthen the SBA 504 program by expanding funding, modernizing eligibility, speeding project approvals, and creating a new 504 Express Expansion track for established businesses creating jobs.
Encourage Employee Ownership
Provide enhanced financing incentives for businesses that establish employee ownership and profit-sharing programs.
Goal:Help workers build wealth alongside the businesses they help build.
Create Small Business Opportunity Zones
Combine startup grants, affordable financing, technical assistance, and contracting opportunities in targeted commercial corridors.
Goal:Revitalize communities through local entrepreneurship.
Establish the SBA First Loss Fund
Reduce lender risk by covering the initial portion of losses on qualifying startup loans.
Goal:Encourage more private lending to promising entrepreneurs.
Simplify Access
Create one digital portal for grants, loans, mentoring, technical assistance, and contracting opportunities.
Goal:Make government easier to navigate.
Expand Mentorship and Business Development
Partner with universities, chambers of commerce, Small Business Development Centers, experienced business mentors, minority business organizations, and local economic development agencies.
Goal:Pair capital with experience.
Increase Transparency
Publish annual reports measuring business creation, job creation, survival rates, loan performance, and taxpayer return on investment.
Expand Access to Federal Contracting
Simplify procurement and help more small businesses compete for government contracts.
Goal:Create reliable customers, not just affordable financing.
Cut Red Tape for Small Businesses
Reduce paperwork, simplify reporting requirements, coordinate permitting where possible, and expand digital services.
Goal:Let entrepreneurs spend more time growing businesses.
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Opening your first restaurant? Access startup grants and affordable financing.
Buying your first commercial building? A strengthened SBA 504 program makes expansion easier.
Growing a construction, trucking, retail, or service business? A stronger SBA 7(a) program helps finance hiring and equipment.
Veteran, first-time entrepreneur, or business owner in an underserved community? Benefit from expanded mentoring and streamlined access to capital.
Employee? Expanded ownership incentives create more opportunities to build wealth.
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Increase new business formation.
Improve five-year business survival rates.
Expand lending in underserved communities.
Increase employee-owned businesses.
Grow federal contracts awarded to small businesses.
Increase locally owned businesses and local job creation.
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Require business plans for grant applicants.
Maintain prudent underwriting standards for loans.
Publish annual audits and performance reports.
Investigate and prosecute fraud aggressively.
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The CARE Act creates a comprehensive federal framework for lifelong care and community living. It brings existing programs together, fills the gaps between them, and ensures that every eligible person has one coordinated plan for life.
The principle is simple
No person should lose healthcare, housing, caregiving, or community because a parent can no longer provide care.
The CARE Act is built around eight commitments. Tap any item to expand.
One CARE Advocate
Every eligible person will have one federally certified CARE Advocate beginning during the transition to adulthood and continuing throughout life. The CARE Advocate becomes the family's single point of contact and coordinates services across Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, housing, healthcare, transportation, employment, education, and community programs.
What it means One person responsible for making sure the whole system works together.
A Lifelong Support Guarantee
Eligible individuals will receive timely access to necessary home and community-based services, including personal assistance, nursing, therapies, behavioral healthcare, transportation, respite care, supported employment, day services, residential support, and emergency backup care.
What it means Community care should be dependable, not something families wait years to receive.
Housing With Community
The CARE Act will expand accessible housing modeled after successful efforts such as Casa Familia, including supported apartments, small shared homes, mixed-income communities, independent living options, and higher-support residences. Housing funding and care funding will be coordinated instead of treated as unrelated programs.
What it means The goal is not simply a bed. The goal is a home and a community.
Friendship, Belonging, and Purpose
Community Belonging Grants will support programs that create real relationships and full community participation. That includes models similar to Friendship Circle, Best Buddies, Special Olympics, faith-based inclusion programs, arts, recreation, volunteer service, peer mentoring, and civic engagement.
What it means A full life includes friends, places to go, people who know your name, and opportunities to contribute.
Planning Before Crisis
Beginning in adolescence, each participant and family will create a Lifelong Support Plan covering housing, healthcare, communication needs, transportation, employment, daily support, emergency care, financial planning, future caregivers, and supported decision-making. The plan will follow the individual and be updated over time.
What it means The transition after a parent's death should never begin with strangers trying to reconstruct a person's life.
Support for Families
The CARE Act expands respite care, caregiver training, mental health support, sibling planning, legal and financial guidance, emergency caregiver networks, and transition assistance.
What it means Parents should be allowed to be parents, not unpaid administrators of a broken system.
A Stronger Caregiving Workforce
The plan invests in direct support professionals through better reimbursement, competitive wages, training, career ladders, benefits, recruitment, retention, and emergency staffing.
What it means A promise of care means little if there is no one available to provide it.
Technology for Independence
The CARE Act will make assistive technology part of the basic support plan, including communication devices, smart-home systems, wearable health tools, remote monitoring chosen by the individual, adaptive robotics, mobility technology, accessible transportation, and digital care coordination.
What it means Technology should increase independence and safety without replacing human connection or personal choice.
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The CARE Advocate is the practical center of the plan. This person will not replace a parent, guardian, caregiver, doctor, or benefits agency. The advocate will make sure they are communicating and working from one coordinated plan.
Helps the individual and family create and update the Lifelong Support Plan.
Coordinates applications, renewals, and transitions involving Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, housing, employment, and transportation.
Organizes annual meetings with the individual, family, caregivers, providers, and appropriate agencies.
Maintains an emergency and successor-care plan.
Tracks deadlines and prevents avoidable gaps in benefits or services.
Helps resolve disputes and escalates urgent needs when agencies fail to respond.
Monitors actual quality of life, not merely whether forms were completed.
Remains accountable to the individual and respects supported decision-making, privacy, choice, and independence.
Federal agencies will retain their legal authority over eligibility and benefits. The CARE Advocate will have statutory coordination authority, access to participating agencies with the individual's consent, and the ability to require timely responses and elevate unresolved cases.
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Every participant will have one secure, portable Lifelong Support Plan recognized across participating programs. The individual must be at the center of that plan, with family and trusted supporters involved according to the individual's preferences and legal rights.
The plan will address:
Where the person wants to live
Healthcare and behavioral health needs
Communication preferences and assistive technology
Daily living support and personal care
Education, employment, volunteering, and meaningful daytime activity
Transportation and mobility
Friendships, recreation, faith, culture, and community participation
Emergency and backup caregiving
Supported decision-making or guardianship arrangements
Social Security, representative payee, ABLE account, trust, and financial planning
Successor caregivers and the transition when parents can no longer provide care
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The CARE Act will establish continuous coverage and coordinated care for people with qualifying lifelong disabilities. Medicaid will remain the principal payer for long-term services and supports. Medicare will cover eligible medical services. Social Security will provide income support. The CARE Advocate will make those systems function as one plan instead of separate bureaucracies.
The plan will:
Prevent unnecessary interruptions in Medicaid for people with permanent qualifying disabilities.
Provide Medicaid wraparound coverage for services Medicare does not cover.
Expand access to Medicaid Buy-In so people can work without losing essential care.
Require coverage of emergency backup caregiving and transition support.
Reduce repetitive paperwork and duplicative disability reviews where the condition is permanent.
Protect continuity when an individual moves between communities or across state lines.
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The CARE Act will create a national Community Living Capital Fund to help nonprofit organizations, local governments, housing providers, and families build or preserve accessible community housing. The program will coordinate HUD housing resources, federal tax incentives, local land, nonprofit investment, and Medicaid-funded services.
Federal support should be flexible enough to help create different options because adults with disabilities do not all need or want the same living arrangement.
Small homes shared by a limited number of residents
Supported apartments with staff available on site
Mixed-income and mixed-ability developments
Independent apartments with visiting support
Housing located near family members
Residences designed for people with more significant medical or behavioral needs
The standard must be dignity, safety, individual choice, and meaningful connection to the surrounding community. Community living cannot become institutional care with a nicer sign out front.
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The CARE Act does not pretend that one existing agency can do everything. It gives each agency a clear responsibility and creates one coordinated system around the individual.
Partner
Responsibility
Administration for Community Living
Oversees the CARE Advocate Corps, national standards, community inclusion grants, family support, and quality-of-life accountability.
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Funds long-term services and supports, personal care, residential services, therapies, respite, transportation, and care coordination.
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Supports accessible housing construction, rental assistance, nonprofit development, and community living options.
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Administers SSI, Disabled Adult Child benefits, income support, and representative payee services.
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Support transition, workforce preparation, supported employment, and opportunities to contribute.
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Expands accessible and dependable transportation and future mobility solutions.
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Deliver services locally and develop housing, programs, and care networks tailored to their communities.
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A stronger care system must also protect the rights of the people it serves. The CARE Act will include independent oversight, transparent reporting, background and training standards, accessible complaint procedures, protection against abuse and financial exploitation, and regular review of restrictive guardianships.
No housing provider, caregiver, guardian, or government agency should control a person's life simply because that person needs support. The individual's voice, preferences, safety, and right to live in the community must remain at the center of every decision.
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The federal government will be required to report whether participants are actually living better lives. Measures will include:
Stable and appropriate housing
Continuity of healthcare and support services
Preventable hospitalizations and emergency placements
Employment, education, volunteering, or meaningful daily activity
Personal choice and supported decision-making
Friendships and community participation
Health and safety
Family and participant satisfaction
Caregiver stability and workforce retention
Avoidance of unnecessary institutionalization
Perfect paperwork and an isolated life is not success.
A parent's death will always be a profound personal loss. It should not also become a housing crisis, a healthcare crisis, and a caregiving crisis.
The CARE Act will help adults build stable lives, homes, relationships, routines, and support networks while their parents are still alive. It will make sure the people who know and care for them are not replaced by a frantic search for services after a crisis.
Independence does not mean facing life alone. It means having the support to live the fullest life possible.
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