Florida Senator Ashley Moody cast one of the 50 votes that passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which ended veterans' exemption from SNAP's time limit, after voting against a motion to keep that exemption. She voted against guaranteeing funding for the PACT Act, the law for veterans exposed to burn pits, against rehiring veterans fired from federal jobs, against requiring the VA to disclose its workforce-cut plan, and against overturning the VA's ban on abortion care for veterans.
Moody voted to confirm Doug Collins as secretary of veterans affairs and Russell Vought as budget director. Under them the VA planned to cut tens of thousands of jobs, and by fiscal 2026 its hospitals reported a total of 4,712 severe occupational staffing shortages, including 96 at the Miami VA.
Ashley Moody's Votes on Veterans' Benefits, the VA Officials She Confirmed and Her Record as Attorney General
- Moody Cast One of the 50 Votes for a Law That Ended Veterans' SNAP Exemption. On July 1, 2025, Ashley Moody voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed 50 to 50 with the Vice President's vote, so it would have failed without hers. Section 10102 ended veterans' exemption from SNAP's time limit, so veterans must show 80 hours a month of work or activity to keep their food stamps beyond three months. Around 1.2 million veterans with lower incomes receive SNAP nationally, including nearly 100,000 in Florida.
- Moody Voted Against Protecting Veterans' Food Aid in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in June 2025. On June 30, 2025, Moody voted no on Senator Tammy Duckworth's motion to send the bill back to committee with instructions to change it so it would not reduce or terminate SNAP benefits for Veterans, homeless individuals, young former foster children, and parents of children under 18. It failed 49 to 51. The law as passed eliminates that exemption for veterans, and many states rolled out the stricter work requirement Feb. 1, 2026.
- Moody Voted Against Guaranteeing PACT Act Funding for Toxic-Exposed Veterans in February 2025. On February 21, 2025, Moody voted no on Senator Richard Blumenthal's amendment to the budget resolution "to ensure full and uninterrupted funding for Department of Veterans Affairs health care and benefits provided by" the PACT Act, the 2022 law for veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxins. It failed 47 to 52. Burn Pits 360, a veterans' advocacy group, said the amendment would have ensured full and uninterrupted funding for veterans' healthcare and benefits. Days later the VA drew up a plan for cutting over 80,000 jobs; it dropped that plan in July and instead will shed 30,000 total employees through attrition.
- Moody Voted Against Rehiring Veterans Fired From Federal Jobs in March 2025. On March 14, 2025, Moody voted no on Senator Tammy Duckworth's amendment "to make veteran Federal employees who were involuntarily dismissed without cause eligible for reinstatement and to require reports from Executive agencies on the number of veteran employees fired." It failed 47 to 53. In the weeks before, the VA had announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees and then more than 1,400 probationary employees, and House Appropriations Democrats estimated that nearly 6,000 veterans had been fired across the government.
- Moody Voted Against Requiring the VA to Disclose Its Workforce-Cut Plan in August 2025. On August 1, 2025, Moody voted no on an amendment requiring the secretary of veterans affairs to give Congress "a report on the plan of the Secretary for Department of Veterans Affairs workforce reduction in fiscal year 2026." It failed 45 to 50. By then the VA was down more than 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses for the year, and in 2026 it began planning to eliminate 25,000 vacant positions.
- Moody Voted to Keep the VA's Ban on Abortion Care for Veterans in March 2026. On March 25, 2026, Moody voted no on taking up S.J.Res. 103, a resolution to overturn the VA rule on "Reproductive Health Services." The motion failed 48 to 50. The rule, effective January 30, 2026, prohibits the procedure at VA medical facilities unless the life of the mother is endangered and removed the exceptions for cases where the pregnancy was the result of an act of rape or incest.
- Moody Voted to Confirm Doug Collins, Whose VA Cut Staff and Contracts. On February 4, 2025, Moody voted to confirm Doug Collins as secretary of veterans affairs. Under Collins the department was on pace to reduce total VA staff by nearly 30,000 employees in fiscal 2025, killed nearly 600 contracts, including one to maintain a gene sequencing device used to develop better cancer treatments, and stopped presuming that male breast cancer in toxic-exposed veterans was service-connected, so the department no longer presumes service connection for male breast cancer. By fiscal 2026 VA facilities reported a total of 4,712 severe occupational staffing shortages, the inspector general found.
- Moody Voted to Confirm Russell Vought, Who Ordered the Layoff Plans. On February 6, 2025, Moody voted to confirm Russell Vought as budget director; he was confirmed 53 to 47. On February 26, 2025 Vought's office and the Office of Personnel Management told agencies that Agency Heads shall promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force, and a week later the VA's plan called for cutting over 80,000 jobs, later scaled back to about 30,000.
- Moody Joined Attorneys General Warning the VA Over Abortion Care for Veterans as Florida Attorney General in 2022. As Florida attorney general, Moody joined the letter that Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch's coalition wrote McDonough Nov. 17 to object to a V.A. interim final rule allowing abortion care for veterans in some cases; Baptist Press listed Ashley Moody of Florida among the 15 attorneys general, who called the VA rule "unlawful" and "deeply flawed." The VA later reversed the 2022 rule in a final rule published December 31, 2025, which reinstate the exclusions on abortions and abortion counseling from veterans' medical benefits, and as a senator Moody voted against taking up a resolution to overturn it.
What the VA Cuts Under Officials Ashley Moody Confirmed Mean for Florida Veterans
- VA hospital shortages. In fiscal 2026 the Miami VA Healthcare System in Florida designated 96 occupations as severe staffing shortages, 75 of them clinical, the most of any Florida system in the VA inspector general's report; the VA Tampa Healthcare System in Florida designated 52 and the VA Orlando Healthcare System in Florida 35.
- Food aid. Nearly 100,000 Florida veterans receive SNAP, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities figures Stateline reported: the number is nearly 100,000 in Florida and Texas. They now face the work rule that the law Moody voted for extended to veterans.
Frequently Asked Questions About Ashley Moody on Veterans
What is Ashley Moody's record on veterans under Trump?
Ashley Moody cast a deciding vote for the law that ended veterans' exemption from SNAP's time limit and voted against guaranteeing PACT Act funding, rehiring fired veterans and disclosing the VA's job-cut plan. She voted to confirm Doug Collins and Russell Vought, under whom the VA planned deep staff cuts and Florida's VA systems in Miami, Tampa and Orlando reported dozens of severe staffing shortages each. As Florida attorney general in 2022 she joined a letter warning the VA over abortion care for veterans.
Did Ashley Moody vote to cut SNAP for veterans?
Yes. Ashley Moody voted against a June 30, 2025 motion to keep the SNAP exemption for veterans and then voted for the final bill, which ended it. Veterans who cannot document 80 hours of work or activity a month can keep SNAP for only three months in three years.
How did Ashley Moody vote on abortion care at the VA?
Ashley Moody voted on March 25, 2026 against taking up a resolution to overturn the VA rule that ended abortion at VA facilities except when the patient's life is in danger, and the motion failed 48 to 50. The rule also reinstated the exclusions on abortions and abortion counseling from veterans' medical benefits. In 2022, as Florida attorney general, she had joined the attorneys general who called the rule that allowed that care "unlawful" and "deeply flawed."
Last updated: 2026-10-25