On July 1, 2025, Ashley Moody cast one of the 50 votes that passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, whose tax and spending changes the Congressional Budget Office estimates leave the lowest-income tenth of households worse off while the top tenth gains, and which adds trillions of dollars to the national debt. In the votes before passage, Moody voted against requiring the bill not to add to the deficit and against restoring the expanded Child Tax Credit.
Moody's office called it "the LARGEST tax cut for the working and middle class in history"; ITEP estimates the law raises taxes on the poorest 40% of Americans in 2026. For Florida, the law also cuts federal Medicaid funding by about $13.6 billion over ten years.
Ashley Moody's Votes and Statements on Taxes and the Deficit
- Moody Cast a Deciding Vote for a Tax Law That Gives the Top Tenth $13,600 a Year and Costs the Lowest Tenth $1,200 in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Ashley Moody voted yes on Senate passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed 50 to 50 with the Vice President breaking the tie, so the bill would have failed without her vote. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the law will cost the lowest-income tenth of households an average of $1,200 a year, mainly through its Medicaid and SNAP cuts, while the top tenth gain $13,600 a year.
- Moody Voted to Score the Tax-Cut Extension as Costing Nothing in June 2025. On June 30, 2025, Moody voted yes to sustain the chair's ruling that the chair must rely on determinations made by the Budget Committee, which let the committee chairman use a "current policy" baseline under which extending the 2017 tax cuts was scored as costing nothing. The ruling was sustained 53 to 47. Brookings calls the maneuver a fundamental break with 50 years of budget rules, and reports the Congressional Budget Office's estimate of the law's deficit increase, with interest, as a total of $4.1 trillion.
- Moody Voted Against Requiring the Bill Not to Add to the Deficit in June 2025. On June 30, 2025, Moody voted no on Senator Alex Padilla's motion to make the bill "not increase the deficit" over 2025-2034 against current law. It failed 47 to 53. The Congressional Budget Office's February 2026 update estimates the law will add $4.2 trillion to the national debt through 2034 and $4.7 trillion through 2035, counting interest and economic effects.
- Moody Voted Against Restoring the Expanded Child Tax Credit in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Moody voted no on Senator Michael Bennet's motion to raise the Child Tax Credit to "match levels of the expanded Child Tax Credit," paid for by corporations and the wealthy. It failed 47 to 53. The law instead raised the credit to $2,200 and denied it to families unless a parent and the child have Social Security numbers; Brookings found 17 million children were in low-income families that received less than the full credit or no credit at all and thus would not benefit from the increase.
- Moody Voted Against Barring Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Paid for by Medicaid and Food Aid Cuts in February 2025. On February 20, 2025, Moody voted no on waiving the budget rules for Senator Chuck Schumer's amendment "to prevent tax cuts for the wealthy if a single dollar of Medicaid funding is cut," which failed 49 to 51, and no on Senator Amy Klobuchar's amendment to stop tax cuts for the ultra-rich while families struggle to afford food, which failed 48 to 52. The same night she voted against Schumer's amendment "to prevent unwarranted tax cuts for the ultra-rich," which failed 47 to 52. ITEP estimates the law gives the richest 1 percent $1 trillion in tax cuts over a decade while cutting Medicaid by almost as much, and that more than 70 percent of the net tax cuts will go to the richest fifth in 2026.
- Moody Voted Against Middle-Class Tax Relief and a Limit on Record Debt in April 2025. On April 5, 2025, Moody voted no on Senator Jacky Rosen's amendment to provide tax relief for the middle class, which failed 47 to 52. On April 4 she voted no on Senator Jeff Merkley's point of order against legislation creating more debt over 30 years than the country accumulated in its first 249 years, which failed 46 to 53. The Congressional Budget Office projects federal interest costs will rise from $970 billion in 2025 to $2.1 trillion by 2036, a path that reflects the law along with tariffs and other changes.
- Moody Voted for the Budget Resolution That Allowed $1.5 Trillion in Deficit-Financed Tax Cuts in April 2025. On April 5, 2025, Moody voted yes on H.Con.Res. 14, which allowed the Senate Finance Committee to add up to $1.5 trillion to deficits and raised the debt limit by up to $5 trillion. It passed 51 to 48. That budget resolution is the one the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was passed under.
- Moody Voted Against Returning Unspent Immigration-Enforcement Money to Cut the Deficit in June 2026. On June 5, 2026, Moody voted no on Senator Gary Peters's amendment to rescind unspent immigration-enforcement balances from the law and transfer them to the Treasury "to reduce the deficit." It failed 46 to 53. The money stayed with the enforcement agencies while the law's deficit cost grew in the Congressional Budget Office's February 2026 update.
- Moody Voted Against a Top Tax Rate That Would Have Added Money to the Rural Health Fund in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Moody voted no on waiving the budget rules for an amendment to apply a 39.6 percent individual income tax rate and provide additional funding for the law's Rural Health Transformation Program. It failed 22 to 78. KFF estimates federal Medicaid spending in rural areas falls by $137 billion over ten years under the law, and that the rural fund could offset a little over a third (37%) of the estimated cuts.
- Moody Praised the Law as Monumental on the Night It Passed the Senate. On July 1, 2025, Ashley Moody said after the Senate vote that Florida families will have money back in their pockets "following the passage of the monumental One Big Beautiful Bill," and that it was "a vote for stronger border security, more job opportunities, preventing a $4 trillion tax increase." That statement covers every provision of the law, including the Medicaid and SNAP cuts the Congressional Budget Office counts in its estimate that the lowest-income tenth of households lose an average of $1,200 a year.
- Moody Called It the Largest Tax Cut for the Working and Middle Class; the Poorest 40 Percent Pay More in 2026. In the same July 1, 2025 statement, Moody said: "This bill delivers the LARGEST tax cut for the working and middle class in history." ITEP estimates that the law raises taxes on the poorest 40% of Americans in 2026, and that more than 70 percent of the net tax cuts go to the richest fifth.
- Moody Said the Law Secures Financial Common Sense for Future Generations; It Adds $4.2 Trillion to the Debt. Moody also said the vote was for "securing financial commonsense so our kids and grandkids have the opportunity to live their American Dream." The Congressional Budget Office's February 2026 update estimates the law adds $4.2 trillion to the debt through 2034, counting interest and economic effects.
What the Tax Law Ashley Moody Voted For Means for Florida
- What Florida gives up. Over ten years, the law cuts federal Medicaid funding for Florida by about $13.6 billion, by KFF's allocation of the Congressional Budget Office estimate, and KFF projects 590,000 more uninsured Floridians in 2034 from the law alone.
- State budget. The law makes Florida pay part of SNAP benefits for the first time: about $900 million a year at its 2025 error rate, by CBPP's estimate, unless a high final 2026 error rate delays the bill until federal fiscal year 2030.
Frequently Asked Questions About Ashley Moody on Taxes and the deficit
What is Ashley Moody's record on taxes and the deficit under Trump?
Ashley Moody voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 1, 2025 and, before passage, voted against requiring it not to add to the deficit, against restoring the expanded Child Tax Credit, and to let the Budget Committee score the extended 2017 tax cuts as costing nothing. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the law adds trillions to the debt, and Moody has called it the largest tax cut for the working and middle class in history.
Did Ashley Moody vote for tax cuts for the rich?
Ashley Moody voted for the law that ITEP estimates gives the richest 1 percent $117 billion in net tax cuts in 2026, more than the bottom 60 percent combined, and before that voted against three amendments in February 2025 to block tax cuts for the wealthy while Medicaid and food aid were cut. Her vote was one of the 50 the bill needed to pass.
How much does the tax law Ashley Moody voted for add to the national debt?
The law Ashley Moody voted for adds $4.2 trillion to the debt through 2034 and $4.7 trillion through 2035 in the Congressional Budget Office's February 2026 estimate, counting interest and economic effects. Brookings and the Tax Policy Center write that the money spent in the law would have been sufficient to resolve Social Security's long-term financing problem.
Last updated: 2026-10-25