Bill Huizenga, a Republican, sits in the U.S. House for Michigan's 4th District, a district he took over on January 3, 2023, and his re-election contest is decided November 3, 2026. On May 22, 2025, he supplied one of the 215 votes that sent the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on to the Senate against 214, and on July 3 he gave his vote to the final version, whose Medicaid cuts KFF tallies at $31.6 billion for Michigan over a decade.
About Bill Huizenga
- Full name
- Bill Huizenga, of the Republican Party, as his House Clerk entry gives it
- Current role
- Michigan's 4th District congressman, according to the Clerk
- In office since
- Has represented the 4th District of Michigan since January 3, 2023
- Seeking
- Another two years in the 4th District seat, with Michigan voting on November 3, 2026
- Key votes
- budget resolution H.Con.Res. 14, adopted February 25, 2025; House passage of H.R. 1, May 22, 2025; H.Res. 566 consideration vote, July 2, 2025; H.R. 1 as finally passed, July 3, 2025; H.Res. 1156 on the law's tax policies, April 16, 2026
What Bill Huizenga Is Responsible For
- Medicaid. Huizenga's May 22, 2025 yes was needed for the House to approve the One Big Beautiful Bill Act with nothing to spare; on July 3 he voted yes on the final law, which takes $31.6 billion out of Michigan's federal Medicaid money and reaches the 164,500 Medicaid enrollees in Michigan's 4th District, 46,600 of them expansion adults who fall under the new work rule. Michigan's work requirement takes effect January 1, 2027, and state officials expect up to 200,000 Healthy Michigan members to lose coverage.
- Hospitals and rural health. State-directed payments are capped by the final law, which passed July 3, 2025 with Huizenga's yes, putting $2.62 billion a year of federal spending on Michigan hospital services above the new ceilings, and KFF counts a ten-year loss of $5.63 billion in federal Medicaid dollars for the state's rural areas.
- Food assistance. A $187 billion SNAP reduction through 2034, CBPP's figure, is part of the law Huizenga helped pass; more than 167,000 Michiganders have left the program since summer 2025, Bridge Michigan reported, and in fiscal 2028 the state also owes about $300 million toward benefits.
- Medicare. Under CMS's proposed timeline, the same law ends Medicare on February 1, 2027 for lawfully present immigrants identified during its grace period, and its tax changes pulled in the depletion date of the hospital trust fund that 2,250,601 Michigan enrollees depend on by a quarter, now the second quarter of 2033.
- Nursing homes and elder care. Huizenga's vote for the final law keeps the federal nursing-home staffing standard unenforceable until September 30, 2034, and in Michigan two of every three nursing-facility residents rely on Medicaid first.
- Mental health and addiction. The law's work rule reaches Healthy Michigan, whose adults in 2021 included 213,395 people with a mental illness and 89,192 with a substance use disorder, and it exempts people with a substance use disorder or a disabling mental disorder; Huizenga voted for it on July 3, 2025.
- The child tax credit. Their parents' earnings fall short, so 40,000 children in Michigan's 4th District, a quarter of the district's children, get less than the full child tax credit in the law Huizenga voted for, the Columbia poverty center counts.
- Social Security. The law he voted for adds $168.6 billion to Social Security's costs through 2034, and when the retirement fund runs short in late 2032, CRFB projects an average Michigan cut of $523 a month.
- Student loans. Graduate PLUS loans ended under the law Huizenga voted for, and Michigan borrowers pushed from SAVE into its Repayment Assistance Plan pay $1,884 more a year, per CAP's average.
- Taxes and the deficit. Huizenga's deciding April 2025 budget vote allowed up to $4.5 trillion in deficit-financed tax changes, and the final law adds $4.2 trillion to the debt through 2034 while the top tenth of households gains $13,600 a year and the poorest lose $1,200, the Congressional Budget Office estimates.
- Veterans. Veterans lost their own exemption from SNAP's three-month cutoff in Section 10102 of the law Huizenga voted for, so among the 39,000 Michigan veterans who live in SNAP households, those without a qualifying exemption now face the time limit.
- Planned Parenthood. The law Huizenga voted for barred Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood for a "1-year period"; nearly 30 of its health centers closed nationwide during the cutoff, and on July 30, 2026 Planned Parenthood of Michigan said it was permanently closing three clinics in Lansing, Livonia and Warren.
- Energy bills and jobs. Energy Innovation projected that the law Huizenga voted for could add roughly $320 to the yearly energy costs of an average Michigan household by 2035, and that its energy provisions mean 760,000 lost jobs by 2030 nationally; its Michigan study finds the law, together with federal cutbacks for domestic manufacturing and innovation, will cost the state 7,000 jobs a year on average over the next decade.
- Immigration enforcement money. The law Huizenga voted for "directs $170.7 billion toward immigration and border enforcement", and by March 2026 "nearly 70,000 people are in ICE detention, the highest number in several years", NPR reported.
- The consumer bureau. In Section 30001, the law Huizenga voted for set the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's ceiling at 6.5% of a Federal Reserve benchmark instead of 12%, which by CRS's math cut the fiscal 2025 limit to about $446 million from $823 million, nearly halving the money available to the bureau.
- Silencers and short-barreled guns. Huizenga voted for the law that "eliminated a $200 permit tax on the devices", and once a federal judge ruled that repealing the tax also knocked out the legal footing for registering them, the ATF on October 9, 2026 stopped requiring registration of silencers and short-barreled guns in the registry that "helps federal ATF agents trace the chain of firearm ownership".
How This Page on Bill Huizenga Is Sourced
Votes on this page come from the official House roll calls kept by the Clerk, linked on each vote, such as the May 22, 2025 passage of H.R. 1. Michigan and 4th District numbers come from KFF's district enrollment counts, Social Security Administration statistics and other state datasets, and national estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, KFF, CBPP and similar researchers, with this version last updated on October 27, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions About Bill Huizenga
What is Bill Huizenga's record under Trump?
Bill Huizenga's 2025 roll calls on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act include yes votes on its budget resolutions, rules, House passage and final passage: his yes decided the February and April budget resolutions and the May 22 passage, and he voted yes on the final law on July 3. KFF estimates Michigan gives up $31.6 billion in federal Medicaid money under it, and CBPP puts its SNAP cut at $187 billion nationally. In April 2026 he voted for a resolution praising it.
Was Bill Huizenga's vote the difference on the Big Beautiful Bill?
On May 22, 2025 it was: Bill Huizenga was one of 215 members who voted for the House version, which passed 215 to 214, so his no would have defeated it. His votes also decided the February and April 2025 budget resolutions and two July 2, 2025 procedural votes, 212 to 211 and 214 to 212; final passage on July 3 came on a 218-214 tally.
How deep is the Medicaid cut to Michigan in the law Bill Huizenga voted for?
Michigan's share of the federal Medicaid reduction in the law Bill Huizenga voted for is $31.6 billion across ten years, about 17% of the federal Medicaid dollars the state had coming, in KFF's split of the budget office's estimate. The Michigan Health & Hospital Association says the law will "cost Michigan hospitals more than $6 billion in total Medicaid funding" over the decade.
When does the Medicaid work requirement Bill Huizenga voted for begin in Michigan?
On January 1, 2027, under the law Bill Huizenga voted for on July 3, 2025; Healthy Michigan members renewing in March 2027 are the first group that must prove compliance, and their coverage ends March 31, 2027 if they do not, Bridge Michigan reported. The Whitmer administration estimates up to 200,000 of the program's roughly 678,000 members will lose coverage.
What did Bill Huizenga's vote mean for food aid in Michigan?
Bill Huizenga's yes was decisive on the February 2025 budget resolution, which handed the Agriculture Committee, SNAP's overseer, a $230 billion savings target, and he voted for the final law, which widened SNAP's work rules and shifted costs to states. More than 167,000 Michiganders left SNAP between summer 2025 and August 2026, and Michigan owes about $300 million in benefit costs in fiscal 2028, CBPP estimates.
Did Bill Huizenga vote to praise the Big Beautiful Bill in 2026?
Yes: Bill Huizenga voted for H.Res. 1156 when the House adopted it 219 to 207 on April 16, 2026, a resolution calling the law the "Working Families Tax Cuts." ITEP's 2026 analysis found that the poorest fifth of Americans instead face a small average tax increase under it.
Last updated: 2026-10-27