The One Big Beautiful Bill Act pays for tax cuts weighted toward the top partly by cutting Medicaid and SNAP, so CBO finds a $13,600 yearly gain for the richest tenth of households and a loss for those at the bottom, and Brad Knott, who represents North Carolina's 13th District, voted for it on July 3, 2025 after his yes helped pass the House version 215-214.
Knott's February 2025 vote decided the budget resolution that told the SNAP and Medicaid committees to find at least $230 billion and $880 billion in savings, and the law that followed ends SNAP's exemption from the time limit for people experiencing homelessness. KFF projects the law will add 300,000 North Carolinians to the uninsured in 2034.
Brad Knott's Votes on Aid for Low-Income and Homeless North Carolinians
- Knott Voted for a Law That Gives the Top Tenth $13,600 a Year While Cutting SNAP by $187 Billion. Knott's July 3, 2025 yes helped enact the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, 218-214, and on May 22, 2025 the House version had needed his vote to pass 215-214. In CBO's breakdown by income, the best-off tenth of households gains about $13,600 a year from the law while those with the least lose ground, largely through the Medicaid and SNAP provisions; by CBPP's measure the SNAP reduction, $187 billion through 2034, is the biggest the program has ever seen.
- Knott's Deciding Budget Vote Set the Savings Targets Ahead of a Law That Ended Food-Aid Exemptions for Homeless Adults, Veterans and Former Foster Youth. Knott's February 25, 2025 yes adopted H.Con.Res. 14, the budget resolution, 217-215, a vote his switch would have deadlocked, and a tie fails. It ordered the Agriculture Committee, which handles SNAP, to cut the deficit by $230 billion or more, and set an $880 billion savings floor for the committee in charge of Medicaid. Knott's July 3, 2025 yes went to the final law, which ends the SNAP time-limit exemption that had protected homeless people, veterans and young adults leaving foster care, and CBO expects net SNAP participation in those groups to drop by 300,000 people.
What the Law Brad Knott Voted For Means for Low-Income Families in North Carolina
- 80,000 children in North Carolina's 13th District are covered by the Medicaid program the law cuts. Medicaid covered 80,000 children in North Carolina's 13th District in 2025, along with 48,900 adults outside the expansion and 42,600 expansion adults, KFF counts; for low-income families, that coverage is what pays for a child's checkups and a parent's prescriptions, and it now draws on $22.5 billion less in federal money for the state over ten years.
- Homeless North Carolinians and former foster youth can now lose SNAP after three months. North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services says the exemptions for homeless people and for those who left foster care as young adults are among the ones that ended under H.R. 1. A North Carolinian without stable housing who cannot document 80 hours a month of work or training can now get food aid for just three months out of every 36.
- 300,000 more North Carolinians will be uninsured in 2034 under the law. KFF projects that the law alone raises the number of uninsured North Carolinians by 300,000 in 2034, somewhere between 220,000 and 370,000, leaving more low-income families to face medical bills with no coverage at all.
Frequently Asked Questions About Brad Knott on Homelessness and poverty
What is Brad Knott's record on homelessness and poverty under Trump?
Brad Knott voted in July 2025 for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which CBO finds takes resources from the lowest-income households while handing the top tenth roughly $13,600 a year. His votes were decisive on the House version in May and on the February 2025 budget resolution that set savings floors of $230 billion and $880 billion for the committees over SNAP and Medicaid. The law ended SNAP's time-limit exemption for homeless adults, and KFF projects 300,000 more uninsured North Carolinians in 2034.
How does the SNAP change Brad Knott voted for work for a homeless adult in North Carolina?
Under the law Brad Knott voted for, an adult in North Carolina who is homeless no longer has an automatic exemption from SNAP's time limit, so unless another exemption applies they must document 80 hours a month of work, volunteering or a work program to keep benefits past three months. The Congressional Budget Office projects SNAP participation among homeless people, veterans and former foster youth will fall by a net 300,000.
How does the law Brad Knott voted for affect a low-income North Carolina family that relies on both SNAP and Medicaid?
The law Brad Knott voted for puts that family under two sets of rules: SNAP's time limit now reaches parents whose youngest child is 14 or older, and expansion adults on Medicaid must report 80 hours a month of activity and have their eligibility rechecked "once every 6 months." A missed form in either program can cost the household food aid or health coverage, and CBPP estimated in June 2025 that 43,000 North Carolina parents of teenagers were at risk of losing SNAP under the Senate Agriculture Committee's matching proposal.
Last updated: 2026-10-27