Because the One Big Beautiful Bill Act funds tax cuts that rise with income partly by shrinking Medicaid and SNAP, its net effect runs uphill: Congressional Budget Office figures put the richest tenth of households about $13,600 a year ahead and the poorest tenth roughly $1,200 behind. Ann Wagner, representing Missouri's 2nd District, cast her yes for that law on July 3, 2025; in May, a no from her would have turned the House version's 215 to 214 passage into a defeat.
In February 2025 Wagner provided the margin for a budget resolution instructing SNAP's committee to find $230 billion and Medicaid's to find $880 billion. The law she voted for on July 3 ends the SNAP time-limit exemption for people living in shelters or on the street and trims the Medicaid program that funds services to help people get and keep housing. KFF expects 160,000 additional uninsured Missourians in 2034.
Ann Wagner's Votes on Aid for the Lowest-Income Households
- Under the Law Wagner Voted For, Households at the Bottom Lose $1,200 a Year and Those at the Top Gain $13,600. The final House tally on July 3, 2025 was 218 to 214, and Ann Wagner was in the majority; six weeks earlier, on May 22, the 215 to 214 House passage had depended on her. CBO's distributional analysis, as summarized by Thomson Reuters, reads: "the top decile will receive a windfall of $13,600 every year," while "the lowest-income earners will lose an average $1,200 in overall household resources," and "A large contributing factor for this discrepancy is the Act's cuts to Medicaid" and to SNAP. That SNAP reduction ($187 billion through 2034) has no equal in SNAP's history. The same law ended SNAP's three-month-limit protection for homeless adults, veterans and people who aged out of foster care; CBO projects a net 300,000 fewer of them on SNAP.
- Wagner's Decisive Budget Vote Gave SNAP's and Medicaid's Committees $230 Billion and $880 Billion Savings Targets. Adoption of H.Con.Res. 14 on February 25, 2025 came by 217 to 215, close enough that Wagner reversing herself would have left the House tied and the resolution dead. In it, SNAP's committee, Agriculture, was given a $230 billion target and Medicaid's committee, Energy and Commerce, an $880 billion one. The target for Medicaid's committee bears on housing: the program finances services that help people get and keep homes, and CBPP reports that three of every four rental-assistance households have a member with Medicaid or related coverage.
What Ann Wagner's Votes Mean for Low-Income and Homeless Missourians
- 160,000 more Missourians go uninsured in 2034, leaving medical bills to compete with rent. KFF's projection for Missouri, from the law alone, is 160,000 more people without coverage in 2034. A family that loses Medicaid pays for an ER visit or insulin from the same paycheck that covers rent.
- Missourians without homes now face SNAP's three-month cutoff, and a June 2025 CBPP estimate put 34,000 other adults at risk. At risk of losing SNAP in a typical Missouri month, per CBPP's June 2025 estimate for a Senate Agriculture Committee proposal with the expansions the law later made: 14,000 people in the 55-to-64 bracket and 20,000 mothers and fathers of teens. A person sleeping in a shelter, who used to be exempt, now runs the same three-month clock.
- Medicaid funds the housing supports 75,500 enrollees in Missouri's 2nd District can draw on. KFF lists 75,500 Medicaid enrollees in Missouri's 2nd District for 2025, and the law reduces the state's federal Medicaid dollars by $14.3 billion across ten years, as KFF allocates the cut. Medicaid is a key funder of the case management and supportive services that keep people housed, CBPP notes, so families near the edge lose part of what holds them in place.
Frequently Asked Questions About Ann Wagner on Homelessness and poverty
What is Ann Wagner's record on homelessness and poverty under Trump?
Ann Wagner's vote decided the May 2025 House passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and she was a yes on the final law in July 2025; CBO estimates it costs the bottom tenth of households about $1,200 a year as the top tenth gains $13,600. The final law also ends SNAP's exemption for homeless people, after the February 2025 budget resolution her vote decided set the SNAP and Medicaid committee targets, and KFF has 160,000 more Missourians uninsured by 2034.
What happens to SNAP for a Missourian living in a shelter under the law Ann Wagner voted for?
Ann Wagner voted for a law that drops homelessness from the list of SNAP time-limit exemptions, so a Missouri adult staying in a shelter, absent some other exemption, gets three months of food aid before needing to document 80 hours a month of work or training. CBO expects the combined change for homeless people, veterans and former foster youth to cut SNAP rolls by a net 300,000.
Who comes out ahead and who falls behind because of Ann Wagner's July 2025 vote?
Ann Wagner voted for a law that, in the Congressional Budget Office's estimate, makes the top tenth of households about $13,600 a year better off and the bottom tenth about $1,200 a year worse off, with Medicaid and SNAP cuts doing most of the damage at the bottom. In Missouri that loss arrives as smaller grocery benefits and dropped health coverage.
Last updated: 2026-10-27