Eli Crane, Republican congressman for Arizona's 2nd District since January 3, 2023, is running for another term in the November 3, 2026 election. His costliest vote for Arizona came on May 22, 2025, when the One Big Beautiful Bill Act got through the House by one vote, 215 to 214, with Crane in the majority; his July 3 yes on the final law followed, and KFF prices the state's Medicaid loss under it at $34.47 billion across ten years.
About Eli Crane
- Full name
- Elijah "Eli" Crane, Republican, shown in the House Clerk's member profile as Elijah Crane, Arizona's 2nd District
- Current role
- Sits in the U.S. House for Arizona's 2nd Congressional District, as a Republican
- In office since
- Representing Arizona's 2nd District since January 3, 2023
- Seeking
- Another House term from the 2nd District at the November 3, 2026 general election
- Key votes
- Feb. 25, 2025: budget resolution, 217 to 215; Apr. 10, 2025: final budget resolution, 216 to 214; May 22, 2025: House passage of H.R. 1, 215 to 214; July 3, 2025: the law's final House vote; Apr. 16, 2026: H.Res. 1156, praising the law
What Eli Crane Is Responsible For
- Medicaid funding. $34.47 billion over ten years, 18% of what Arizona expected from Washington for Medicaid, is gone under the law that needed Crane's House vote to clear 215 to 214 and got his final yes. Medicaid enrolls 242,900 people in his district, and its expansion adults face a work test states must start no later than January 1, 2027.
- Hospital payments and rural care. Caps on state-directed payments in the law Crane voted for leave nearly $3 billion a year of Arizona's federal hospital funding over the limit, by KFF's count, and rural Arizona's Medicaid loss comes to $3.125 billion over ten years.
- Insurance coverage. The law Crane voted for adds 10 million to the nation's uninsured count in 2034, per the Congressional Budget Office, and KFF projects 330,000 more uninsured in Arizona, a 4-point rise in the state's uninsured rate.
- SNAP. The law Crane voted for on July 3 cuts SNAP by $187 billion through 2034, roughly 20%, by CBPP's count; Arizona's budget has carried 75 percent of SNAP administration since October 1, 2026, and CBPP's June 2025 estimate for a Senate Agriculture Committee plan with the same wider time limits found 37,000 Arizonans between 55 and 64 whose food aid was at risk.
- Medicare. No earlier law had ended Medicare for people already eligible; this one, which Crane voted for, does, KFF notes, for refugees, asylees and other immigrants lawfully present without green cards, and under CMS's proposed timeline those already identified lose coverage on February 1, 2027. Arizona's Medicare rolls held 1,499,414 people in 2024.
- Nursing homes. The 2024 federal staffing floor for nursing homes cannot be enforced before October 2034 under the law Crane voted for, and the Medicaid financing it squeezes is first payer for 54% of the 11,931 Arizonans in nursing facilities.
- Social Security. $168.6 billion in added costs through 2034 is the chief actuary's score of what the law Crane voted for does to Social Security, which paid 1,533,323 Arizonans in December 2024; when the fund runs short, CRFB puts the average Arizona loss at $511 a month.
- Child tax credit. 55,000 children in Arizona's 2nd District, 35%, collect a partial credit or none under the law Crane voted for, in the Columbia poverty center's estimate, because the credit phases in with parents' earnings.
- Student loans. Borrowers in Arizona forced from SAVE into the Repayment Assistance Plan, which began in the House bill Crane's May 2025 vote decided, owe $1,973 more each year on average by CAP's estimate, while the final law closed Graduate PLUS loans to new borrowers.
- Taxes and the deficit. Budget office numbers show the law Crane voted for handing the top tenth about $13,600 a year and costing the bottom tenth roughly $1,200, and adding $4.7 trillion to the debt through 2035; in 2026 Crane voted for a resolution that calls it the "Working Families Tax Cuts."
- Energy bills. By 2035 Arizona households could pay about $220 a year more on average for energy because the law Crane voted for ended clean-energy credits, in Energy Innovation's projection; Rhodium Group's U.S. emissions outlook for 2035 slipped from 38 to 56 percent below 2005 levels before the law to 27 to 44 percent after it.
- Jobs. "Workers suffer 760,000 lost jobs by 2030" under the energy provisions of the Senate-passed bill, Energy Innovation projects, and Crane voted for that version on July 3, 2025.
- Planned Parenthood. Federal Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood stopped for a year under the law Crane voted for; the organization reports that nearly 30 of its health centers shut in that time and its Medicaid patient visits fell by a quarter, more than 250,000.
- Immigration detention money. "$170.7 billion toward immigration and border enforcement" is what the law Crane voted for directs, the American Immigration Council found; by March 2026, NPR reported, "nearly 70,000 people are in ICE detention, the highest number in several years."
- Consumer protection. The law Crane voted for shrank the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's allowed draw on Fed funds from 12% to 6.5% of a benchmark; the Congressional Research Service figures that means roughly $446 million rather than $823 million for fiscal 2025.
- Silencers and short-barreled guns. Once the law Crane voted for repealed the $200 tax Washington charged on silencers, short-barreled shotguns and short-barreled rifles, a federal judge held that registering them no longer had a constitutional basis; the ATF followed on October 9, 2026 by announcing an end to registration.
How This Page on Eli Crane Is Sourced
Each vote on this page links to its roll call on the House Clerk's site, for example the May 22, 2025 passage of H.R. 1. Arizona and 2nd District numbers link to the underlying data, including KFF's state Medicaid allocation and the Social Security Administration's Arizona district tables, and national numbers link to the Congressional Budget Office, KFF, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other named researchers, in a version dated October 27, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions About Eli Crane
What is Eli Crane's record under Trump?
Eli Crane supplied the deciding yes on the 2025 budget resolution in February and again in April and on the one-vote House passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, then voted for the final law. KFF prices its Medicaid cut for Arizona at $34.47 billion, and the same law pulls $187 billion out of SNAP and adds $168.6 billion in Social Security costs; in April 2026 Crane voted for a resolution celebrating it.
Could Eli Crane have stopped the Big Beautiful Bill?
In the House on May 22, 2025, yes: Eli Crane's yes was one of 215 against 214, one member voting present, so his vote alone could have stopped the bill. His votes were also decisive on the budget resolution in February and April 2025. The July 3 final-passage tally was 218 to 214.
How much does the law Eli Crane voted for cost Arizona's Medicaid program?
Eli Crane voted for a law that, as KFF divides up the budget office's national estimate, reduces federal Medicaid funding for Arizona by $34.47 billion, 18% of the expected total, with $3.125 billion of the loss in rural Arizona; KFF expects 330,000 more Arizonans uninsured in 2034 as a result.
What does Eli Crane's vote cost families in Arizona's 2nd District?
Eli Crane's district counted 242,900 Medicaid enrollees in 2025 and 225,055 Social Security beneficiaries in December 2024, and 55,000 of its children get a reduced child tax credit, or none, under the law he voted for, every one of them touched by the law's Medicaid cuts, credit design or added Social Security costs.
Did Eli Crane vote to cut SNAP?
Yes: Eli Crane's February 2025 budget vote, which decided the outcome, ordered the Agriculture Committee, which writes SNAP law, to find $230 billion or more, and his July 3, 2025 vote went to a law taking $187 billion through 2034 out of SNAP; Arizona now covers three-quarters of SNAP's administrative bill, and CBPP estimated in June 2025, for the Senate Agriculture Committee's proposal with the time limits the law later adopted, that 37,000 Arizonans aged 55 to 64 were at risk of losing benefits.
What did the 2026 resolution Eli Crane voted for say about the Big Beautiful Bill?
Eli Crane's April 16, 2026 vote was for H.Res. 1156, whose text promises households in the lower two-fifths of incomes a 15 percent tax cut from the law and calls it the "Working Families Tax Cuts"; ITEP's 2026 estimate is that Americans in the bottom fifth instead see a slight average tax increase under it.
Last updated: 2026-10-27