On July 3, 2025, Ashley Hinson of Iowa voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, whose child tax credit leaves more than 1 in 4 children nationally without the full amount because their families earn too little, and whose expanded child care credit reaches few low-income families. The law also requires work reporting from parents on expansion Medicaid whose children are 14 or older.
In 2021, Hinson voted twice against the American Rescue Plan (roll call 49; roll call 72), which expanded the child tax credit to the lowest-income children for one year.
Ashley Hinson's Votes on the Child Tax Credit, Child Care and Parents
- Hinson Voted for a Child Tax Credit That Leaves Out Low-Income Children, in July 2025. On July 3, 2025, Ashley Hinson voted yes on the final One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed 218 to 214, after casting one of the votes that passed the House version 215 to 214 in May. The law kept the rules that give low-earning families a partial credit or none, so more than 1 in 4 children (28%) under age 17 will be ineligible for the full Child Tax Credit, Columbia University researchers estimate; a two-parent family with two children will need a minimum of $41,500 in income to get the full amount. A new rule strips the Child Tax Credit from the approximately 2.6 million or more children who are citizens but whose parents lack a Social Security number, the National Immigration Law Center found.
- Hinson Voted for a Child Care Credit That Skips Low-Income Families and for Work Rules on Parents of Teenagers. The same law Hinson voted for expanded the child and dependent care tax credit without making it refundable, and its Medicaid work requirement exempts parents only when they care for a dependent child 13 years of age and under or a disabled individual. Only about 8.5 percent of families with children will receive a larger credit in 2026, the Tax Policy Center estimated, and families making less than $30,000 won't benefit at all, according to the National Women's Law Center. Parents on expansion Medicaid whose youngest child is 14 or older will have to report work hours or lose coverage once the requirement starts, and States are required to implement the new requirement no later than January 1, 2027. The House version she voted for in May had exempted the parent, guardian, or caretaker relative of a disabled individual or a dependent child of any age.
- Hinson Voted Twice Against the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit, Which Most Americans Supported. On February 27 and March 10, 2021, Hinson voted no on the American Rescue Plan Act (roll call 49, roll call 72), which included Sec. 9611. Child tax credit improvements for 2021., the expansion that made the full credit available to the lowest-income families for that year. In March 2021, Gallup found 63% of Americans approve of the new $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package. The expansion was temporary; after it expired, the supplemental poverty measure rate for children jumped 7.2 percentage points to 12.4% in 2022, the Associated Press reported from Census data.
What the Child Tax Credit and Work Rules Ashley Hinson Voted For Mean for Iowa Families
- Children left out. In Iowa, 158,000 children, or 23%, will be too low-income for the full child tax credit under the law, the Columbia researchers estimate, including 35,000 children, or 21%, in Hinson's 2nd District.
- Parents on Medicaid. Iowa HHS says the work requirements for adults in the Iowa Health and Wellness Plan take effect December 1, 2026, a month before the federal deadline.
Frequently Asked Questions About Ashley Hinson on Child care and families
What is Ashley Hinson's record on child care and families under Trump?
Ashley Hinson of Iowa voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, whose child tax credit leaves children in low-income families in her district without the full amount and whose child care credit gives nothing to families making less than $30,000. In 2021 she voted against the American Rescue Plan's one-year expansion of the credit to the lowest-income children.
Does the child tax credit Ashley Hinson voted for reach low-income children?
Not fully: under the 2025 law Ashley Hinson voted for, a two-parent family with two children still needs a minimum of $41,500 in income to receive the full credit, and she voted against the 2021 expansion that reached the poorest children. The 2025 law also strips the Child Tax Credit from citizen children whose parents lack a Social Security number.
Does the child care tax credit Ashley Hinson voted for help low-income families?
The child care credit Ashley Hinson voted for in 2025 helps few low-income families, because it stays nonrefundable, and the Tax Policy Center found that nearly 80 percent of the more generous benefit will go to families in the middle and top of the income scale.
Last updated: 2026-10-25