Policy Positions
Positions as of July 1, 2026, extracted from source websites.
Climate(1)
Supports investing in resilient infrastructure to address climate impacts that drive up insurance costs and household expenses in Florida.
"Tamika will invest in resilient infrastructure that protects homes and lowers household costs, treat climate impacts as solvency and affordability issues, and build systems that protect families instead of forcing them to shoulder the costs of preventable disasters."
Economy(1)
Supports raising wages for working families in Florida.
"She's running for FL-16 to stabilize insurance, make housing affordable, protect healthcare, raise wages, and restore the basic promise that work should lead to security."
Education(4)
Supports fully funding Florida's public education system, reducing class sizes, and providing schools with counselors, support staff, and modern resources.
"Tamika will fight to fully fund Florida's public education system. She supports raising teacher pay to competitive, livable levels to recruit and retain high-quality educators, reducing class sizes, and ensuring schools have the counselors, support staff, and modern resources students need to succeed."
Supports raising teacher pay to competitive, livable levels to recruit and retain high-quality educators.
"She supports raising teacher pay to competitive, livable levels to recruit and retain high-quality educators"
Supports amending Florida's constitution to allow teachers to strike in order to demand better pay.
"I would amend teacher's inability to strike. I believe it limits their voices and forces them to rely on their perspective unions to negotiate and bargain for them. Florida ranks 46th in the country and teachers are unable to demand better pay with more immediate results."
Supports increasing funding for public schools so teachers and students have adequate resources.
"Education: I am seeking to increase funding in public schools so teachers have the means to do their job adequately and students have the tools necessary to be successful."
Healthcare(4)
Supports protecting Medicare and Social Security so seniors can retire with dignity and predictability.
"Tamika will protect Social Security and Medicare and ensure seniors can retire with dignity and predictability, not anxiety."
Supports capping prescription drug costs for seniors and families.
"cap prescription drug costs for seniors and families"
Supports protecting healthcare access for Florida residents.
"She's running for FL-16 to stabilize insurance, make housing affordable, protect healthcare, raise wages, and restore the basic promise that work should lead to security."
Supports expanding Medicaid to cover over 850,000 uninsured Floridians, including those who lost coverage due to COVID-19.
"Healthcare: I am seeking to expand Medicaid to over 850,000 people that were without health care prior to COVID-19 and the people who lost health care insurance due to the pandemic."