Ashley Moody on the Economy and Jobs: The Tax-and-Spending Law's Lost Energy Jobs, the Officials Behind the Tariffs, and Federal Job Cuts

On July 1, 2025, Ashley Moody cast one of the 50 votes that passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, after voting against amendments to keep its clean-energy tax credits. Energy Innovation projects the law and related federal energy actions will cost Florida's economy 25,000 jobs a year over the next decade.

Moody voted to confirm the trade and homeland security officials who imposed new tariffs and the $100,000 H-1B fee, and cast one of the votes that defeated, 49 to 49, a resolution to end the emergency behind the global tariffs. On April 2, 2025 she said of the new tariffs, "It's liberation day in America!"

Ashley Moody's Votes and Statements on Jobs, Tariffs and the Economy

• Moody Cast a Deciding Vote for a Law Projected to Cost 760,000 Jobs by 2030 in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Ashley Moody voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed 50 to 50 with the Vice President's vote, so it would have failed without hers. The law ended clean-energy tax credits on a schedule running through 2027. Energy Innovation projects "760,000 lost jobs by 2030" nationally from the law's energy provisions, and the Congressional Budget Office estimates the law raises federal interest costs by $405 billion through 2034 because it pushes interest rates up.
• Moody Voted Against Keeping the Clean-Energy Tax Credits in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Moody voted no on an amendment to repeal the termination of clean-energy credits, rejected 49 to 51, on an amendment to modify the end of the residential clean energy credit, rejected 48 to 52, and on an amendment "to maintain parity for wind and solar facilities," which all 53 Republicans opposed. Energy Innovation projects the law and related federal energy actions will cost Florida 25,000 jobs per year on average over the next decade, and that Florida's economy will lose $3.7 billion in GDP in 2030.
• Moody Voted Against Rehiring Fired Federal Workers in Early 2025. On February 20, 2025, Moody voted no on a budget amendment for reinstating fired employees of the Forest Service, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Land Management, and on March 14, 2025 she voted no on making veterans dismissed from federal jobs without cause eligible for reinstatement. Federal payroll employment has fallen by 336,000 jobs since January 2025.
• Moody Voted to Confirm the Trade Officials Whose Tariffs Remain in Force. Moody voted to confirm Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary on February 18, 2025 and Jamieson Greer as trade representative on February 26, 2025. Greer's office imposed 10 or 12.5 percent tariffs on 60 economies in July 2026, and more than four in ten small employers reported tariff costs as a financial challenge in the Federal Reserve's 2026 survey.
• Moody Voted to Confirm the Officials Who Ran the $100,000 H-1B Fee and the New Visa Lottery. Moody voted to confirm Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary on January 25, 2025 and Joseph Edlow as director of the federal immigration benefits agency, USCIS, on July 15, 2025. Their agencies enforced a $100,000 payment on new H-1B petitions from September 2025 until a federal judge struck it down on June 8, 2026, and adopted a wage-weighted lottery that the Department of Homeland Security estimates will cut entry-level H-1B petitions by 10,099 a year.
• Moody Cast One of the Votes That Kept the Global and Canada Tariffs in 2025. On April 30, 2025, Moody voted no on S.J.Res. 49, which would have ended the national emergency behind the global tariffs; it was defeated 49 to 49, so her vote was one it could not lose. She voted against ending the Canada tariff emergency on April 2, 2025 and October 29, 2025, and against ending the Brazil and global tariff emergencies on October 28, 2025 and October 30, 2025; the Senate passed each of those without her vote. Those emergency tariffs stayed in force until the Supreme Court ruled on February 20, 2026 that the emergency law did not authorize them; by then the National Taxpayers Union Foundation's tracker counted executive tariffs costing Florida an estimated $12 billion since January 2025.
• Moody Praised the April 2025 Tariffs as Liberation Day. On April 2, 2025, the day the President announced tariffs on imports from most countries, Ashley Moody said: "It's liberation day in America! Today, [Trump] sent a message to the world that the era of America being taken advantage of is over," as Florida's Voice reported on April 3, 2025. The Federal Reserve's 2026 small-business survey found more than four in ten small employers reporting tariff costs as a financial challenge.

What the Policies Ashley Moody Voted For Cost Florida's Economy

• Energy jobs. Energy Innovation projects the law and related federal energy actions will cost Florida's economy 25,000 jobs a year and lower its GDP by $3.7 billion in 2030.
• Tariff costs. Executive tariffs have cost Florida an estimated $12 billion since January 2025, the eighth-highest total in the country and equivalent to $1,279 per Florida household, by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation's count.
• Tourism. Canadian travel to Florida fell 13.9 percent in the first half of 2026, to 1.68 million visitors, amid what the News Service of Florida described as a backlash from Canadian visitors over President Donald Trump's rhetoric and trade policies.

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Last updated: 2026-10-25

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