Between February 25 and July 2, 2025, Bill Huizenga cast seven yes votes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act where his switch alone would have reversed or tied the result, and a tie fails: on February 25; on April 9 and April 10; on May 22, twice; and on July 2, twice again. On July 3 he cast his vote for the finished law, which in KFF's allocation removes $31.6 billion in federal Medicaid funds from Michigan over a decade.
In April 2026 he voted for a House resolution honoring the law. Medicaid in his district covered 164,500 people in 2025, and the law by itself adds 300,000 Michiganders to the uninsured in 2034, KFF projects.
Bill Huizenga's House Votes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, in the Order the Bill Moved
- Huizenga Gave the House Budget Resolution Its Two-Vote Edge in February 2025, Locking In Savings Targets for the Medicaid and SNAP Committees. The first stage, February 25, 2025, took three roll calls, and Huizenga was a yes on each: the previous-question motion on H.Res. 161, H.Res. 161 itself, which governed debate, and then H.Con.Res. 14, the budget resolution, which survived 217 to 215; had he alone voted no, the tally would have tied and the resolution would have died. Its instructions: Energy and Commerce, Medicaid's committee, was to "reduce the deficit by not less than $880,000,000,000"; Agriculture, SNAP's committee, owed $230 billion or more; and the tax-writing Ways and Means panel received leeway to widen deficits by up to $4.5 trillion.
- Huizenga's April 2025 Votes Were Decisive on Both the Rule and the Senate-Amended Budget Resolution. April 9, 2025: Huizenga voted for the previous question on H.Res. 313 and the rule, which squeaked by 216 to 215 and set up a vote on the Senate's amendment to the budget resolution. April 10: he voted to concur, and the House did, 216 to 214. Had he changed sides, the rule would have lost 215 to 216 and the concurrence would have tied 215 to 215, which fails. The Senate's version left the House committees' instructions as they were. The law that resulted, which Huizenga voted for on July 3, 2025, cuts Medicaid by $911 billion across the decade in the Congressional Budget Office's score, KFF reports; Michigan's portion is $31.6 billion.
- Huizenga Was Indispensable to the One-Vote House Passage of H.R. 1 in May 2025. Six roll calls on May 22, 2025 recorded Huizenga's position. Taking up H.Res. 436, the rule for H.R. 1, required two questions of consideration, which won 217-211 and 216-211, and Huizenga voted aye on both; he also voted aye on the previous question, a 213-211 result that his switch would have turned into a 212-212 tie, which fails, and on the rule, 217-212. On the motion to recommit he voted no, and it lost 212-216. Then came passage: 215 yes, 214 no, one present, Huizenga with the majority. After the Senate's rewrite, Medicaid changes in the final law account by themselves for 7.5 million more uninsured people in 2034 in the Congressional Budget Office's estimate cited by KFF, and Planned Parenthood lost Medicaid payments for a "1-year period".
- Huizenga's July 2 Votes Brought Up the Senate's Version, and His July 3 Vote Helped Make It Law. Before the final vote, the House needed two procedural wins on July 2, 2025, and Huizenga's aye was decisive in each: H.Res. 566's question of consideration, 212-211, and its previous question, 214-212. He then voted for the Foxx amendment to that rule, the rule as amended on July 3, and finally the motion to concur in the Senate amendment, the vote that passed the law, 218-214. President Trump signed it on July 4, 2025, as Public Law 119-21. What it does to coverage: by 2034, 10 million more people without insurance, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, as KFF reports. What it does to food aid, in CBPP's words: "The megabill cuts SNAP by $187 billion or about 20 percent by 2034."
- Huizenga Voted in April 2026 to Hail the Law as Tax Relief for Working Families. Huizenga voted for H.Res. 1156 on April 16, 2026; it passed 219-207 as a resolution that calls the law the "Working Families Tax Cuts" and asserts it "will result in a 15 percent tax cut for Americans whose income is in the bottom 40 percent." ITEP's numbers point the other way for the bottom: "For the poorest fifth of Americans, the average tax change from OBBBA is a small tax increase" in 2026, as the top 1 percent average upward of $70,000 in tax savings.
What the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Costs Michigan, Area by Area, After Bill Huizenga's Votes
- Medicaid covers 164,500 people in Huizenga's district as Michigan loses $31.6 billion. Medicaid's 2025 enrollment in Michigan's 4th District reached 164,500, about a fifth of all residents, KFF says, and the statewide hit from the law is $31.6 billion of federal Medicaid money over ten years, 17% of what Michigan expected. The votes behind it are laid out on Bill Huizenga's health care page.
- Michigan hospital payments above the law's limits total $2.62 billion a year. That sum, $2.62 billion annually in federal spending on Michigan hospital services, exceeds the new ceilings in KFF's analysis, and the countryside's ten-year loss of federal Medicaid dollars is $5.63 billion. The hospital provisions are on Huizenga's health care page.
- Michigan officials expect up to 200,000 Healthy Michigan members to lose coverage under the work rule. Healthy Michigan enrolls about 678,000 people; the rule starts January 1, 2027, and the state's estimate of losses tops out at 200,000, Bridge Michigan reported. The timeline for those members is on Huizenga's health care page too.
- Michigan's uninsured count climbs by 300,000 by 2034 as the top tenth gains $13,600 a year. KFF's projection for Michigan is 300,000 more people without coverage in 2034; nationally, the budget office finds the richest tenth of households ahead by $13,600 a year. Huizenga's taxes and deficit page traces the tax side.
- SNAP has lost 167,000 Michigan participants, with a roughly $300 million state benefit bill due in fiscal 2028. Over 167,000 Michiganders dropped off SNAP from summer 2025 through August 2026, by Bridge Michigan's count, and CBPP pegs the state's coming share of benefit costs at roughly $300 million in fiscal 2028. See Huizenga's food assistance page.
- Medicare's hospital fund, which 2.25 million Michiganders count on, now empties sooner. 2,250,601 Michiganders were on Medicare in 2024, KFF reports, and the law's tax changes advance the hospital fund's exhaustion by one quarter, to the second quarter of 2033; the immigrant-eligibility cutoff is on Huizenga's Medicare page as well.
- Two in three Michigan nursing-home residents depend on Medicaid. Medicaid is the main payer for two-thirds of the 35,755 residents of certified nursing facilities in Michigan, and the staffing standard written for them is blocked through September 2034; Huizenga's elder care page has more.
- Huizenga's district counts 10,800 Medicaid enrollees with disabilities, and 2,994 Michiganders wait for home care. KFF's 2025 district data list 10,800 people with disabilities on Medicaid in Michigan's 4th District, and in 2026 2,994 Michiganders were on waiting lists for Medicaid home care; Huizenga's disability rights page covers the exemption rules.
- Healthy Michigan covers 213,395 adults with a mental illness who face work rules from 2027. KFF's 2021 data show 213,395 Michigan expansion adults living with a mental illness and 89,192 diagnosed with a substance use disorder, and 63% of Michigan Medicaid adults with opioid use disorder were in the expansion; Huizenga's mental health and addiction page explains what they must prove.
- 40,000 children in Huizenga's district are below the income the full child tax credit requires. By the Columbia poverty center's count, 40,000 children in Michigan's 4th District, 25%, are in households earning below what the full credit demands; Huizenga's child care and families page has the breakdown.
- The lowest-income households lose $1,200 a year as 56,400 district children depend on Medicaid. The budget office's finding that the poorest households come out $1,200 a year behind lands in a district where 56,400 children were on Medicaid in 2025; Huizenga's homelessness and poverty page follows the SNAP and Medicaid cuts.
- Michigan retirees face an average $523 monthly cut when the retirement fund runs dry in 2032. Social Security went to 174,328 people in Michigan's 4th District in December 2024; with the retirement fund now projected to run out in late 2032, CRFB estimates Michigan's average loss at $523 a month. More is on Huizenga's Social Security page.
- Moving off SAVE costs the average Michigan borrower $1,884 a year. CAP puts the average added cost for a Michigan borrower moved from SAVE to RAP at $1,884 a year; Huizenga's student debt page has degree-by-degree figures.
- Michigan's 39,000 veterans in SNAP homes: those lacking a qualifying exemption are now under the time limit. CBPP's table puts 39,000 Michigan veterans in SNAP households in 2021 through 2023, and Section 10102 of the law took away the exemption that had kept veterans out of the three-month limit; details are on Huizenga's veterans page.
- Michigan households could face roughly $320 in added yearly energy costs by 2035. Energy Innovation, in figures reported by CNBC, projected the law's energy provisions could raise what a typical Michigan home spends on energy each year by roughly $320 as of 2035, and a later Energy Innovation study of Michigan found that the law, together with federal cutbacks for domestic manufacturing and innovation, will cost the state "7,000 jobs per year on average over the next decade".
- Planned Parenthood of Michigan closed three clinics after the law's Medicaid ban. Planned Parenthood of Michigan said on July 30, 2026 it was permanently closing its Lansing, Livonia and Warren clinics after the law changed Medicaid coverage at its health centers, the Michigan Advance reported; the group cited "a $4.2 million decline in patient care reimbursement and federal family planning funding" from the prior fiscal year.
Frequently Asked Questions About Bill Huizenga on One Big Beautiful Bill
What is Bill Huizenga's record on the Big Beautiful Bill under Trump?
Bill Huizenga voted for both 2025 budget resolutions, the rules, the May 22 House passage and the July 3 final passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, with his switch alone able to reverse seven of those roll calls or force a failing tie on them, among them the February budget resolution and the May 22 passage. The final law, which he voted for on July 3, strips Michigan of $31.6 billion in federal Medicaid money across ten years and costs 300,000 people their insurance by 2034, by KFF's estimates. He followed up in April 2026 by voting for a resolution that praised it.
Did the Big Beautiful Bill need Bill Huizenga's vote to get through the House?
Yes, in May 2025: the House version had 215 votes to 214 with Bill Huizenga among the 215, so his no would have killed it. The July 2, 2025 votes to take up the final version were just as tight, 212 to 211 on consideration and then 214 to 212, with him on the winning side of both; final passage the next day was 218-214.
On what dates do the cuts from Bill Huizenga's vote hit Michigan?
Step by step, under the law Bill Huizenga voted for on July 3, 2025: SNAP's new work rules reached Michigan in fall 2025; on October 1, 2026, Michigan's share of SNAP administration rose to three-quarters; the Healthy Michigan work requirement begins on January 1, 2027; lawfully present immigrants already flagged by Social Security face a Medicare cutoff on February 1, 2027 in CMS's proposed rule; the first Healthy Michigan members who miss the paperwork lose coverage on March 31, 2027; hospital payment rates start dropping January 1, 2028; and Michigan's share of SNAP benefits, near $300 million in its first year by CBPP's estimate, starts in fiscal year 2028.
Last updated: 2026-10-27