Issues

Hector Mujica is running for the United States Congress against a broken system that protects the status quo and the Epstein Class so that he can fight for Floridians and confront the three defining crises facing Florida and our country: the affordability crisis hurting families today, the technological crisis on the horizon, and the governance crisis that prevents either from being solved.

Affordability Crisis: Restoring the Florida Dream

Hector Mujica is running for the U.S. Congress to make life affordable and revive the Florida dream. A husband and dad who grew up in Florida, Hector’s the son of a pastor and Venezuelan immigrants. He led Google’s Crisis Response Team helping communities recover after disasters. Now, an affordability crisis has struck Florida and a broken system is making it worse. For too long, politicians have been screwing over hard-working Floridians in favor of the status quo, insiders, and the Epstein Class. Here is what Hector will fight for:

Lower healthcare costs

Lower healthcare costs by restoring and expanding ACA subsidies and increasing competition

Make homeownership achievable

Make homeownership achievable through down payment assistance and policies that lower barriers for first-time buyers.

Protect and strengthen Social Security and Medicare

Protect and strengthen Social Security and Medicare, ensuring seniors can retire with dignity while making these programs secure and sustainable for future generations.

Restore fairness and accountability to the tax code

Right now, we tax hard work too much, and wealth too little. Restore fairness and accountability to the tax code by closing loopholes so the ultra-wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share, strengthening the middle class and helping families in Florida and across the country.

Eliminate federal income tax for families earning under $150,000, allowing families to keep up to $17,000 more per year—that’s a full year of groceries, 8 months of mortgage payments, or an entire year of homeowner’s insurance for the average Florida family

Preventing the Technology Crisis: Preparing Florida for Artificial Intelligence

Like a hurricane approaching shore, artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly. It will reshape how we work, learn, communicate, and do business. The question before us is no longer whether AI will transform our economy, but whether we will govern that transformation with intention, fairness, and common sense. AI can expand opportunity — but without leadership, it could eliminate jobs, raise costs, harm families, and concentrate power. Hector will ensure Florida is ready by focusing on three priorities:

Protect Our Families

Innovation should strengthen families, not exploit their vulnerabilities. As AI becomes part of our children’s lives, our financial systems, and the information we trust, families deserve clear safeguards, transparency, and accountability. Hector will establish national standards to protect children from harmful AI systems, crack down on scams and fraud, require clear labeling of AI-generated content, and ensure Americans have real control over their personal data. Families also should not bear the hidden costs of building this technology. Data center companies must cover the full cost of the energy, water, and infrastructure they use, so utility bills and community resources are protected.

Empower Our Workers, Builders, and Communities

Technology should create opportunity, not leave people behind. When AI disrupts jobs, families should not face financial ruin while they figure out what comes next. Hector will build a national workforce resilience system that provides advance notice, paid retraining tied to real opportunities, income support during transitions, and portable benefits that move with workers. He will expand access to AI literacy for students and workers, and expand access to AI tools for small businesses and invest in regional innovation so entrepreneurs across Florida can grow and compete. The goal is simple: when AI makes our economy more productive, Florida’s workers and communities should share in the gains.

Advance American Leadership

America must lead in artificial intelligence to protect our economic strength, national security, and way of life. Leadership means ensuring innovation remains open, competitive, and broadly shared. Hector will invest in American research, semiconductor manufacturing, and public AI infrastructure so the future is built here at home. He will enforce competition so opportunity is not concentrated in the hands of a few dominant firms, and ensure democratic values shape the future of this technology. America can win the AI race, and when we do, the benefits must strengthen Florida’s families, workers, and communities.

Fixing the Governance Crisis: Restoring Trust and Accountability

None of these challenges can be solved if the government does not work for the people. Today, too many elected officials answer to donors, lobbyists, and special interests instead of families. Hector is running to restore trust and accountability. He will fight to get money out of politics:

End dark money in politics

End dark money in politics by requiring full transparency and disclosure of all political spending, so voters know who is funding campaigns and influencing elections.

Pass a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United

Pass a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and restore reasonable limits on corporate political spending, so elections are decided by citizens — not corporations.

Ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks

Ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks, so public service is not used for personal profits.

Strengthen ethics rules

Strengthen ethics rules, close lobbying loopholes, and extend cooling-off periods before former officials can become lobbyists, to break the revolving door between government and special interests.

an AI plan that works for everyone

Artificial intelligence will reshape our economy, our jobs, and our national security. I’ve seen firsthand how powerful technology can expand opportunity, and how dangerous it can be when it isn’t governed with intention.

about the plan

My family came to the United States from Venezuela seeking freedom, stability, and the chance to build a better life. I grew up in South Florida, in a family grounded in faith, hard work, and service. That experience shaped how I see this moment. Technology can strengthen the American Dream, or it can erode it. It all depends on the choices we make now.

For more than a decade, I worked inside the technology sector, including leading efforts at Google to expand economic opportunity for workers and communities. I saw how artificial intelligence can help people learn new skills, grow businesses, and solve real-world problems. But I also saw how quickly technological change can disrupt jobs, concentrate power, and outpace the rules meant to protect people.

The question is not whether artificial intelligence will transform our economy. It will. The question is whether that transformation strengthens American families, workers, and communities. Or leave them behind. Too often, the debate swings between extremes: uncritical acceleration on one side, and calls to halt innovation on the other. Neither approach meets the moment. America doesn’t need panic or paralysis. We need a plan.

We can lead in artificial intelligence while strengthening families, empowering workers, protecting our children, and ensuring opportunity is widely shared. But doing so requires clear rules, smart investment, and leaders who understand both the promise and the responsibility of this technology. This plan lays out a practical, values-driven framework to ensure artificial intelligence strengthens America, not just economically, but socially, strategically, and morally.

protect our families

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of our children’s lives, our financial systems, and the information we trust. Families deserve to know that these technologies are safe, transparent, and designed with their well-being in mind.

Innovation should strengthen families, not exploit their vulnerabilities. Parents should not have to worry about AI manipulating their children. Seniors should not have to fear AI-enabled scams. And Americans should not have to question whether what they see and hear is real.

Families also should not bear the hidden costs of building this new technology. The infrastructure powering artificial intelligence should strengthen our communities, not raise utility bills or strain local resources. Protecting families is not about slowing innovation. It is about ensuring that technology develops responsibly, with clear standards, accountability, and basic safeguards that reflect our values.

Kids First Standards

AI systems generally accessed by minors should have a duty of care. If designed for repeated interaction with minors, they should include safeguards to detect and respond appropriately to potential mental health risks, harmful engagement patterns.
Strong privacy protections for kids by default, not buried opt-outs.

Digital Safety and Trust

Scam prevention measures, inclusive of a shared responsibility for platforms to prevent fraud and assist victims.

People deserve to know when they are interacting with AI. This includes: clear labeling of AI-generated content; authenticity standards for political media; protections against deceptive AI in elections.

Accountability and Transparency

Companies must be accountable for the real-world impacts of the systems they build. Companies developing advanced AI should be required to evaluate the safety of their systems before deployment and take reasonable steps to identify and mitigate serious risks.
Whistleblowers who expose dangerous or unlawful activity must be protected from retaliation. Accountability is essential to ensuring artificial intelligence serves the public interest.

Data Dignity and Privacy

Americans deserve clear national standards that protect personal data, provide transparency about how AI systems use information, and give people meaningful control over how their data is used.

Responsible Infrastructure

Artificial intelligence runs on physical infrastructure: data centers, energy, water, and land. America must build the infrastructure needed to win the AI race, but families should not bear the cost. Responsible infrastructure is not an obstacle to innovation. It’s what makes innovation durable.

Data centers should pay the full cost of the energy, grid, and infrastructure they require. Families should not subsidize trillion-dollar industries through higher utility bills.
Data center contracts should optimize for well-paying, dignified jobs.

AI growth should accelerate, not undermine, the transition to clean, reliable energy.
Clear disclosure, monitoring, and replenishment requirements for industrial water use.

Build where infrastructure exists and ensure communities benefit when infrastructure is built (e.g. data centers double as hurricane shelters in FL)

empower workers, builders and communities

Technology doesn’t wait for permission. When AI changes industries overnight, families are too often left to absorb the shock alone. That’s not inevitable. It’s a policy failure. America should treat job disruption the way we treat natural disasters: prepare in advance and respond quickly. America needs a national workforce resilience system.

Policies should help workers, entrepreneurs, small businesses, and communities share in the productivity gains created by AI. If America is going to win the AI race, American workers, small business owners and communities must win too.

A Right to Transition

If technology disrupts your job, you deserve advance notice, income stability, and a real pathway to the next opportunity. This includes:

Paid reskilling tied to real employer demand that optimizes for transferable skills building and jobs with competitive wages
Wage insurance and income support during transitions
Portable benefits and credentials that follow workers across jobs and states
Enabled through local partnerships with employers, unions, community colleges, and workforce organizations working together to prepare workers for uniquely human, high-value jobs.

Financial Stability During Transition

Workers should not lose their homes or financial security simply because technology changes. This includes:

Advancing policies, like boosting housing supply, that give workers the flexibility to relocate and adapt as AI transforms regional economies.
Modernized unemployment and transition support
Financial protections during workforce transitions

Worker Voice and Accountability

As AI becomes part of hiring, promotion, and workplace decisions, high-impact employment outcomes should always include meaningful human review and responsibility, particularly around denials.
Workers and their representatives should have a seat at the table in shaping how AI is deployed in their workplaces.

AI Literacy and Training

Expand AI literacy and education so students and workers understand how to use these tools safely and effectively.

Support Small Businesses and Broad Access

Help small businesses access AI tools that increase productivity and competitiveness.
Invest in regional innovation hubs so entrepreneurs across the country can build and grow.
Use federal policy, including procurement, research funding, and small business support, to ensure innovation happens across the economy, not just inside the largest companies.

advance american leadership

Winning the AI race is essential to America’s economic future, national security, and global leadership. If America does not lead, others will, and the values shaping this technology will not be ours. But leadership is not only about building the most powerful systems. It is about ensuring that the benefits of artificial intelligence strengthen the country as a whole.

America succeeds when innovation expands opportunity, ownership, and mobility across the economy, not when growth is locked behind closed ecosystems. The goal is broad participation in AI-driven growth, so workers, entrepreneurs, and communities share in the value this technology creates. A healthy AI economy is one where the next generation of builders can emerge, not just where today’s giants dominate.

National Security and Technological Independence

Reduce reliance on geopolitical rivals for critical AI infrastructure and ensure that democratic values, not authoritarian ones, shape the future of this technology.
Restrict the export of advanced semiconductor chips to adversaries and strengthen enforcement against diversion and smuggling.

Open and Competitive Markets

Encourage interoperability, open standards, and fair access so new companies can compete and innovate.
Modernize and enforce antitrust laws to prevent excessive concentration of economic power.
Preserve competition while ensuring America remains globally competitive.

Public Compute and Research Infrastructure

Expand national and university-based AI compute resources so researchers, startups, and public institutions can compete, not just the largest technology companies.
Invest in domestic semiconductor manufacturing and AI infrastructure to strengthen America’s technological foundation.
Support public-private partnerships that expand access to critical infrastructure.

Government Must Lead

For this plan to succeed, the government must be capable of meeting the moment. This includes:

Ensure regulators have access to the technical expertise and information needed to understand and oversee advanced AI systems.
Modernizing government services using AI responsibly to reduce bureaucracy while protecting privacy and security.