Every year, the richest tenth of households nets roughly $13,600 from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the poorest households end up about $1,200 behind, largely because of what they lose in Medicaid and SNAP, in Congressional Budget Office estimates as reported by Thomson Reuters. David Rouzer of North Carolina's 7th District was one of the 215 House ayes that edged out 214 on May 22, 2025, and he voted yes again on July 3.
In April 2025, Rouzer's vote decided adoption of the budget plan, which gave Ways and Means room for as much as $4.5 trillion in deficit-financed tax changes. On April 16, 2026, Rouzer then voted for H.Res. 1156, which brands the law the "Working Families Tax Cuts." North Carolina's share of the Medicaid reductions paying for it is $22.5 billion over ten years.
David Rouzer's Votes on the Tax Law and the Deficit
- The Top Tenth Gains $13,600 a Year and the Poorest Lose $1,200 Under the Law Whose House Version Passed on Rouzer's Vote. On May 22, 2025, 215 members voted for the House version and 214 against, one answering present; Rouzer's aye was among the 215, so the bill depended on him. When the final version came back on July 3, 2025, he was again a yes in the 218-to-214 tally. Thomson Reuters, summarizing CBO's distributional analysis, reported that "the top decile will receive a windfall of $13,600 every year," while "the lowest-income earners will lose an average $1,200 in overall household resources," largely through cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
- Rouzer's Decisive Budget Vote Cleared Room for $4.5 Trillion in Borrowed Tax Cuts. Rouzer's aye on April 10, 2025 decided the 216-to-214 agreement to the final H.Con.Res. 14, because a tie fails. Under it the Ways and Means Committee could write tax changes that "increase the deficit by not more than $4,500,000,000,000" over the decade. The enacted Senate text, which Rouzer voted for on July 3, 2025, carries a bigger ten-year price than the House's, the Yale Budget Lab found. CRFB, summarizing CBO's dynamic score, wrote that it would "boost interest rates and thus increase interest costs by $405 billion," and CBO's updated estimate in February 2026 put the law's addition to the debt at $4.2 trillion through 2034.
- Rouzer's April 2026 Aye Went to a Resolution Whose 15 Percent Tax-Cut Claim for the Bottom 40 Percent Misses the Poorest Fifth, Who Pay Slightly More. Rouzer voted aye on H.Res. 1156 on April 16, 2026; it was adopted 219 to 207. The resolution names the law the "Working Families Tax Cuts" and asserts that it "will result in a 15 percent tax cut for Americans whose income is in the bottom 40 percent." ITEP's 2026 analysis: "For the poorest fifth of Americans, the average tax change from OBBBA is a small tax increase," set against average cuts of more than $70,000 this year for the top 1 percent.
What David Rouzer's Tax and Budget Votes Cost North Carolina
- The losses at the bottom land on 253,600 Medicaid enrollees in North Carolina's 7th District. The Medicaid cuts that leave the poorest households behind reach 253,600 people in North Carolina's 7th District, 31% of the population, who had Medicaid in 2025 by KFF's tally, from newborns to nursing-home residents.
- North Carolina surrenders $22.5 billion in federal Medicaid money that helps finance the tax cuts. Applied to North Carolina, the Congressional Budget Office's Medicaid estimate means $22.5 billion less in federal funding across a decade, 11% of the state's expected share, in KFF's allocation, and 300,000 more North Carolinians without coverage in 2034 from the law alone.
- Energy bills for a North Carolina household could climb $490 a year by 2035, whatever its tax bracket. By 2035, the law's energy changes could cost a North Carolina household about $490 a year in higher energy bills, an Energy Innovation projection published by CNBC found, an increase that would hit every family no matter how much of the tax cut it receives.
Frequently Asked Questions About David Rouzer on Taxes and the deficit
What is David Rouzer's record on taxes and the deficit under Trump?
David Rouzer's tax record under Trump includes the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which hands the top tenth about $13,600 a year while the poorest lose about $1,200, by Congressional Budget Office estimates. He cast a vote the House version needed in May 2025, voted for the final law that July, and decided the April 2025 budget vote that permitted $4.5 trillion in borrowed tax cuts. In April 2026 he voted to celebrate it as the "Working Families Tax Cuts."
What does the tax law David Rouzer voted for cost low-income North Carolina families?
Families at the bottom nationally lose about $1,200 a year in resources under the law David Rouzer voted for, largely through Medicaid and SNAP cuts, by CBO's estimate as reported by Thomson Reuters. In North Carolina that means a $22.5 billion, ten-year federal Medicaid cut, and ITEP's 2026 numbers show the poorest fifth paying slightly more in tax under the law, not less.
What does the law David Rouzer voted for do to the national debt?
Counting its economic effects, the law David Rouzer voted for puts another $4.2 trillion on the national debt through 2034, the Congressional Budget Office estimated in February 2026, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, rising to $4.7 trillion through 2035. Higher interest rates alone add $405 billion in interest costs in CBO's earlier dynamic score, as CRFB summarized it.
Last updated: 2026-10-27