On July 1, 2025, Dan Sullivan voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed only with the Vice President's tie-breaking vote. The Congressional Budget Office found it leaves the lowest-income tenth of households with less each year once its food aid and Medicaid cuts are counted, and the night before, Sullivan voted against motions to protect families with young children from food aid cuts and to remove the bill's new paperwork rules.
Sullivan voted to confirm Scott Turner as secretary of housing and urban development, whose department is moving homelessness money away from permanent housing. In Alaska, the law adds costs to the state's food aid program and is projected to end Medicaid coverage for thousands of low-income adults.
Dan Sullivan's Votes on Aid to Low-Income Families and the Official Running Housing Policy
- Sullivan Cast One of the 50 Votes for a Law That Takes About $1,200 a Year From the Lowest-Income Households. On July 1, 2025, Dan Sullivan voted yes on H.R. 1, which passed 50 to 50 with the Vice President's tie-breaking vote, so it would have failed without his vote. The Congressional Budget Office found that resources for the lowest-income tenth of households will decrease by about $1,200 per year (in 2025 dollars), and CBPP reports that, combined with tariffs, the law will leave households with incomes in the bottom 70 percent worse off, according to the Yale Budget Lab.
- Sullivan Voted Against Protecting Families With Children Under 12 From Food Aid Cuts in June 2025. On June 30, 2025, Sullivan voted no on Senator Adam Schiff's motion to make sure no provision of the bill cuts food assistance for families with children under 12. It failed 47 to 53. CBPP estimates the law cuts SNAP by $187 billion or about 20 percent by 2034.
- Sullivan Voted Against Removing Paperwork Rules That Cut People Off Aid in June 2025. On June 30, 2025, Sullivan voted no on Senator Chris Coons's motion to remove provisions stripping individuals in the United States of the Federal benefits to which they are entitled through new paperwork rules. It failed 48 to 52. Those rules reach people who rent with federal help: CBPP found that three in four households with rental assistance include a person who receives health coverage through Medicaid or a related program.
- Sullivan Voted to Confirm Scott Turner, Whose HUD Is Moving Homelessness Money Away From Permanent Housing. On February 5, 2025, Sullivan voted to confirm Scott Turner as secretary of housing and urban development; he was confirmed 55 to 44. Turner praised the July 2025 homelessness order as a move away from "housing first" policies. His department's first plan for the Continuum of Care homelessness grants was blocked by a preliminary injunction in December 2025. Its second plan would set aside $1.3 billion of the more than $4 billion that Congress appropriated for transitional and service-only grants, and after an appeals court ruled in September 2026 that HUD can now move forward making awards under the challenged CoC notice, the National Alliance to End Homelessness estimates at least 97,000 people in CoC-funded permanent housing will likely lose their housing when the awards are made.
What Dan Sullivan's Votes Mean for Low-Income Alaskans
- Medicaid coverage. Modeling for the Alaska Department of Health projects that 9,452 to 13,611 low-income Alaskans will lose Medicaid under the law's work requirement starting in January 2027.
- Food aid costs. Alaska's share of the cost of running SNAP is set to rise roughly $11 million a year under the law, a new cost to the state budget.
Frequently Asked Questions About Dan Sullivan on Homelessness and poverty
What is Dan Sullivan's record on homelessness and poverty under Trump?
Dan Sullivan voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 1, 2025, which the Congressional Budget Office found leaves the lowest-income tenth of households about $1,200 a year worse off, and he voted against protecting families with children from its food aid cuts. He voted to confirm Scott Turner, whose department's homelessness grant plan could cost tens of thousands of people their housing.
Will the homelessness grant changes Dan Sullivan's HUD secretary made cost people their housing?
Dan Sullivan voted to confirm Scott Turner, whose department's 2026 grant plan the National Alliance to End Homelessness says means at least 97,000 people in CoC-funded permanent housing will likely lose their housing. It is a projection: awards under the plan had not yet been made when an appeals court let HUD proceed in September 2026.
Did Dan Sullivan vote to cut aid to low-income families?
Yes. Dan Sullivan voted on July 1, 2025 for the law that CBPP estimates cuts SNAP by $187 billion or about 20 percent by 2034, and the night before he voted against a motion to protect families with children under 12 from those cuts.
Last updated: 2026-10-25