Florida Senator Ashley Moody voted on March 5, 2025 to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's oversight of the biggest payment apps (roll call 106), including Google Pay, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, and Facebook, a step Consumer Reports said puts the privacy of their sensitive financial data at risk. On June 30, 2025, she voted against keeping the bureau's funding, which the One Big Beautiful Bill Act cut to $446 million for 2025.
Moody also voted to confirm the officials who gave immigration agents and other agencies Americans' private records: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whose agreement sent ICE more than 47,000 records from tax files before a court held it unlawful; HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Medicaid chief Mehmet Oz, whose agency gave ICE access to Medicaid enrollees' addresses;, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose Justice Department collected Florida's full voter list, with driver's license and Social Security numbers.
Ashley Moody's Votes on Consumer Privacy and the Officials Who Shared Americans' Records
- Moody Voted to End Federal Privacy Oversight of the Biggest Payment Apps in March 2025. On March 5, 2025, Ashley Moody voted yes on S.J.Res. 28, which passed 51-47 and repealed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that let it supervise the largest payment apps, including for compliance with the privacy provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Congressional Research Service explained. Consumer Reports said the repeal puts the privacy of their sensitive financial data at risk, because payment app providers collect extensive personal data from users and share that information widely with other companies.
- Moody Voted Against Restoring the Consumer Bureau's Funding in June 2025. On June 30, 2025, Moody voted no on a motion to strike the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's cut to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding cap; it failed 47-53. She then voted for the bill, which passed 50-50 with the Vice President's vote. The cut decreased the funding cap in FY2025 to $446 million from $823 million, nearly a 50 percent reduction in funding for the agency that supervises payment apps, credit bureaus and data brokers.
- Moody Cast a Deciding Vote for the Law That Paid for ICE's Surveillance Buildup. On July 1, 2025, Moody voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed 50-50 with the Vice President's vote and gave ICE $75 billion over four years. Brookings found ICE's tools, some of which were funded by the law, include facial recognition technology, automatic license plate readers, cell-site simulators, phone location databases. ICE also resumed a $2 million contract with the spyware manufacturer, Paragon, whose software can harvest messages from multiple different encrypted chat apps, and checks faces against a database of 200 million photos, the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported.
- Moody Voted to Confirm the Two Officials Who Sent Taxpayers' IRS Records to ICE. Moody voted to confirm Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security on January 25, 2025 (roll call 17) and Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary on January 27, 2025 (roll call 19). In April 2025 their departments signed an agreement for the IRS to give ICE taxpayers' addresses, and the IRS turned over more than 47,000 records ultimately deemed unlawful, and a court found it broke the tax privacy law "approximately 42,695 times". In September 2026 a federal appeals court held the agreement indisputably contravenes the requirements of the law.
- Moody Voted to Confirm the Health Officials Who Gave ICE Access to Medicaid Records. Moody voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS Secretary on February 13, 2025 and Mehmet Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid on April 3, 2025 (roll call 167). Their agency agreed last spring to give ICE officials direct access to a Medicaid database that includes enrollees’ addresses and citizenship status. A court limited the sharing for the states that sued, but deportation officials have access to personal Medicaid information of all enrollees in the remaining 28 states, and court filings showed ICE shared Medicaid data it shouldn’t have with Palantir.
- Moody Voted to Confirm Brooke Rollins, Whose Department Collected Food-Aid Recipients' Personal Records From the States. On February 13, 2025, Moody voted to confirm Brooke Rollins as Secretary of Agriculture. In 2025 her department demanded that states turn over records on food-aid recipients back to 2020, including their names, dates of birth, home addresses, Social Security numbers and benefits amounts, and at least 27 states sent the data, NPR reported. Democratic state officials have argued the data demand is unlawful and likely part of a pattern of gathering Americans' personal data for purposes that include immigration enforcement.
- Moody Voted to Confirm the Social Security Commissioner Whose Agency Admitted DOGE May Have Misused Records. On May 6, 2025, Moody voted to confirm Frank Bisignano as Commissioner of Social Security. In a January 2026 court filing, the government conceded that DOGE associates may have improperly accessed sensitive data at the agency, including sharing of data via a third-party Cloudflare server; a whistleblower had alleged the copying put "more than 300 million people's personal information at risk".
- Moody Voted to Confirm Russell Vought, Who Dropped a Rule to Stop Data Brokers From Selling Americans' Information. On February 6, 2025, Moody voted to confirm Russell Vought as budget director. As acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Vought withdrew a proposed rule against data brokers selling sensitive information, in a notice he issued as acting director of the agency; the bureau had warned that identity thieves and scammers purchase detailed financial profiles to target vulnerable consumers. By March 2025, 90% of the CFPB's staff had been cut, the Associated Press reported.
- Moody Voted to Confirm the FCC Commissioner Who Helped Repeal Phone-Network Security Rules. On June 18, 2025, Moody voted to confirm Olivia Trusty to the Federal Communications Commission. In November 2025, Chairman Brendan Carr and Commissioner Olivia Trusty approved the reversal of a rule requiring phone companies to secure their networks, which had been introduced in the aftermath of the China-linked Salt Typhoon intrusions into U.S. carriers.
What the Data Sharing and Consumer-Protection Cuts Ashley Moody Backed Mean in Florida
- Voter records. Florida is among the 16 states that have provided complete statewide voter registration lists, including driver’s license and Social Security numbers to the Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi, whom Moody voted to confirm, and internal correspondence confirmed that DOJ is disclosing voter records to the DHS for immigration checks, the Brennan Center found.
- Medicaid records. Florida was not among the states that sued to stop the Medicaid data sharing, and deportation officials have access to personal Medicaid information of all enrollees in the remaining 28 states, KFF Health News reported, so the addresses and citizenship status of Florida Medicaid enrollees are open to ICE.
Frequently Asked Questions About Ashley Moody on Big Tech and privacy
What is Ashley Moody's record on privacy under Trump?
Ashley Moody voted to repeal federal privacy oversight of the biggest payment apps and against restoring the consumer bureau's funding, and voted to confirm Bessent, Noem, Kennedy, Oz, Rollins and Bondi, whose agencies gave ICE tax and Medicaid records and collected food-aid and voter records from the states. A court found the IRS broke the tax privacy law in the sharing, and Florida's full voter list, with Social Security numbers, went to the Justice Department.
Did Ashley Moody vote to let the IRS share taxpayer data with ICE?
Ashley Moody voted to confirm the two officials who signed the agreement, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (roll call 19) and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem (roll call 17). In September 2026 a federal appeals court held that the agreement indisputably contravenes the requirements of the tax privacy law.
Did Ashley Moody vote to cut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
Yes. Ashley Moody voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cut the bureau's funding cap nearly in half, and on June 30, 2025 voted against a motion to undo the cut (roll call 341).
Last updated: 2026-10-25