Carlos A. Gimenez
Republican · FL-28 · U.S. House
FL-28 — U.S. House
Safe R 99%Carlos A. Gimenez is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Phil Ehr vs. Carlos Giménez. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Carlos Antonio Giménez is a Cuban-born American politician and retired firefighter serving in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2021. He has represented Florida's 28th congressional district since 2023, previously representing the 26th district in his first term. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.7 years
- First took office
- 2021 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 251 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 72
- Key West, FL · 305-292-4485
- Miami, FL · 305-222-0160
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $2.0M – $4.5M
- Liabilities
- $235k – $530k
- Net worth
- $1.4M – $4.2M
- Since 2020
- +$2.1M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 22 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Carlos A. Gimenez's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Carlos A. Gimenez (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Gimenezsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Republican Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
- Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 141 members
Committees
- House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
- House Committee on Homeland Securitycenter · 33 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Gimenez's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
'He's been in office two years!' CNN host slaps Republican with brutal reality checkA Republican congressman got fact-checked on live television for casting blame for the economy away from President Donald Trump.Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) appeared Wednesday on CNN's "Inside Politics," where he was asked about the Republican message on afford…
Raw Story · August 27, 2026
'Quite the excuse': MAGA Republican sparks outrage with wild claim on CNNA MAGA lawmaker sparked outrage after he made a wild claim about the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela during an interview on CNN. Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), who is known as one of Trump's close allies in Congress, told CNN's Boris Sanchez on Tuesday that…
Raw Story · June 30, 2026
GOP rep warns Cuba may strike US with drones as he urges Trump against cutting a dealA Florida Republican congressman warned Cuba poses a unique and urgent threat to the United States as President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened military action against the communist regime just 90 miles from American shores.Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), …
Raw Story · May 20, 2026
Unlawful US Attack, Says Cuban President, 'Would Trigger a Bloodbath With Incalculable Consequences'As the Trump administration seeks to justify a war with Cuba using what Cuban officials have called “increasingly implausible accusations” that it poses a danger to national security, President Miguel Díaz-Canel warned on Monday that an American assault would…
Common Dreams · May 18, 2026
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