On June 30, 2025, Florida Senator Ashley Moody voted against a motion to strike every provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would make it more likely that rural hospitals being forced to close, convert, or reduce services, and the next day she voted for the law, which passed 50-50 with the Vice President's tie-breaking vote. KFF estimates the law cuts federal Medicaid spending in rural Florida by $613 million over 10 years, against a first-year rural health fund award of $210 million.
Moody also voted repeatedly against ending the tariff emergencies whose tariffs set off China's retaliation against U.S. farm goods. She voted to confirm Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, whose department cancelled about $1 billion in local food purchases from farms; USDA's own estimate was that the programs would have brought in around $23 million to Florida farmers.
Ashley Moody's Votes on Farms, Rural Hospitals and Tariffs
- Moody Voted Against Protecting Rural Hospitals From the Medicaid Cuts in June 2025. On June 30, 2025, Ashley Moody voted no on Senator Ed Markey's motion to strike any provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would raise the likelihood of rural hospitals being forced to close, convert, or reduce services, including emergency care and labor and delivery. It failed 49-51. The same day she voted against motions to protect hospital labor and delivery care (roll call 340) and nursing homes (roll call 338), and on July 1 she voted against waiving budget rules for Senator Susan Collins's amendment to add $25 billion to the rural health fund (roll call 355). KFF estimates the law cuts federal Medicaid spending in rural areas by $137 billion over 10 years, against a $50 billion rural health fund.
- Moody Cast a Deciding Vote for the Law That Cuts Rural Medicaid and Tilts Farm Subsidies Toward Southern Crops and Large Farms. On July 1, 2025, Moody voted yes on H.R. 1, which passed 50-50 with the Vice President's tie-breaking vote, so it would have failed without her vote. The law raised crop reference prices at a cost the Congressional Budget Office put at $50.5 billion over the next ten fiscal years, money that goes only to farms in programs covering just 27% of US farm acres. The new reference prices for peanuts, rice and seed cotton are disproportionately higher than for the other major crops, and farmdoc daily found Corn and soybeans continue to lag these Southern crops significantly. The law also lets large farm businesses multiply their payment limits, a change farmdoc daily says will harm most the younger farmers by pushing up land prices and rents.
- Moody Cast a Deciding Vote Against a Budget Measure to Prevent Medicaid Cuts That Could Close Rural Hospitals in April 2025. On April 5, 2025, Moody voted no on Senator Tammy Baldwin's amendment to the budget resolution creating a reserve fund relating to preventing a reduction in Medicaid funding that could lead to rural hospital closures. It failed 49-50, so her vote was one it could not lose. Moody then voted to adopt the budget resolution, whose instructions produced the 2025 law's Medicaid and SNAP cuts. Public Citizen, a progressive watchdog group, lists Lakeside Medical Center in Belle Glade, a farmworker town in rural Palm Beach County, among the hospitals at risk under the Medicaid cuts.
- Moody Cast a Deciding Vote Against Ending the Tariff Emergency in April 2025 as China Retaliated Against U.S. Farm Goods. On April 30, 2025, Moody voted no on S.J.Res. 49, the resolution to end the national emergency used to impose the global tariffs; it was defeated 49-49, so one more yes vote would have passed it, and Moody then voted to table a motion to reconsider. She also voted against ending the Canada tariff emergency on April 2, 2025 (roll call 160) and against three more resolutions in October 2025 to end the Brazil, Canada and global emergencies (roll call 594, 598, 600). In March 2025 China said it will impose additional tariffs of up to 15% on imports of U.S. farm products; North Dakota State University estimated U.S. farm shipments to China from March 2025 to February 2026 were almost $15 billion less than they would have been in the absence of the tariffs. The Supreme Court struck down the emergency tariffs on February 20, 2026, after a year of lost sales.
- Moody Voted Against Removing Cuts to Rural Programs and Food Aid From the 2025 Budget Plan. On February 21, 2025, Moody voted no on an amendment to strike reconciliation instructions requiring damaging cuts to programs critical to rural Americans and food assistance; it failed 47-53. On April 4, 2025 she voted against striking the Agriculture Committee's cut instructions from the second budget plan (roll call 173). Those instructions led to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's SNAP changes, whose expanded work rules put 113,000 adults aged 55 to 64 and 51,000 parents of children 14 and older in Florida at risk of losing benefits, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated, money that rural grocers and the farmers who supply them depend on.
- Moody Voted Against a Budget Measure to Keep Tariffs From Raising Grocery Prices in April 2025. On April 4, 2025, Moody voted no on an amendment creating a reserve fund relating to preventing Trump's tariffs from increasing the cost of groceries and everyday goods for families. It failed 46-53. The Farm Bureau says the federal aid paid since then does not fully cover farmers’ losses over the last few years.
- Moody Voted to Confirm Brooke Rollins, Whose Agriculture Department Cancelled $1 Billion in Local Food Purchases From Farms. On February 13, 2025, Moody voted to confirm Brooke Rollins as Secretary of Agriculture, and on June 10, 2025 she voted to confirm Stephen Vaden as her deputy. In March 2025 her department cancelled about $1 billion of funding to the LFPA program and the Local Food for Schools program, which bought food from local farms for food banks and schools, and abruptly cut $500 million in deliveries from a program that supplies food banks. By early 2026, 42 offices starting 2026 with no staff were among the Farm Service Agency's county offices, so farmers waited longer for loans and conservation contracts.
- Moody Voted to Confirm the Officials Who Ran the Tariffs, Including the 50 Percent Steel Tariffs. Moody voted to confirm Howard Lutnick as Secretary of Commerce on February 18, 2025 (roll call 57) and Jamieson Greer as U.S. Trade Representative on February 26, 2025 (roll call 94). In June 2025 the President doubled steel and aluminum tariffs to 50 percent "After considering current information newly provided by the Secretary" of Commerce. In March 2025 China imposed levies on $21 billion worth of U.S. agricultural and food products in response to U.S. tariffs.
What the Farm and Rural Cuts Ashley Moody Voted For Mean for Florida
- Rural hospitals. KFF puts Florida's 10-year cut in rural federal Medicaid spending at $613 million, against a first-year rural health fund award of $210 million, $199 per rural resident.
- Local food. USDA estimated that the canceled local food programs would have brought in around $23 million to Florida farmers; the head of Feeding Florida, which ran them in the state, said the cuts at this point seem permanent (WLRN).
- Food aid in farm towns. The law's SNAP time limit now covers older adults and parents of teenagers, putting 113,000 adults aged 55 to 64 and 51,000 parents of children 14 and older in Florida at risk of losing food aid, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Frequently Asked Questions About Ashley Moody on Agriculture and rural communities
What is Ashley Moody's record on agriculture and rural communities under Trump?
Ashley Moody voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which KFF estimates cuts rural federal Medicaid spending by $137 billion over 10 years, and voted against motions to protect rural hospitals from those cuts. She voted against ending the tariff emergencies whose tariffs set off China's retaliation against U.S. farm goods, and voted to confirm Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, whose department cancelled local food purchases from farms for schools and food banks.
Did Ashley Moody vote to protect rural hospitals?
No. Ashley Moody voted no on June 30, 2025 on a motion to strike provisions that would make it more likely that rural hospitals being forced to close, convert, or reduce services (roll call 333), and in April 2025 she cast one of the votes that defeated a 49-50 budget amendment on rural hospital closures. She also voted against waiving budget rules to add $25 billion to the rural health fund.
How did Ashley Moody vote on the tariffs that hurt farmers?
Ashley Moody voted against the resolutions to end the tariff emergencies in April and October 2025, including the 49-49 vote on April 30, 2025 that one more yes would have passed. China responded with tariffs of up to 15% on imports of U.S. farm products, and the Farm Bureau says federal aid does not fully cover farmers’ losses over the last few years.
Who gets the new farm subsidy money in the law Ashley Moody voted for?
Under the law Ashley Moody voted for, most of the new money goes to commodity crops, not to most farmers: the higher reference prices pay only farms in programs that cover just 27% of US farm acres, and a new payment-limit loophole will benefit most the older, more established farmers, according to the University of Illinois's farmdoc daily.
Last updated: 2026-10-25