Greg Murphy voted for a tax law that pays the richest tenth of households about $13,600 a year. The poorest households lose about $1,200 a year in resources. Thomson Reuters reported those Congressional Budget Office figures. Murphy's yes on May 22, 2025 was decisive for the House version. His July 3, 2025 yes helped enact it.
Earlier, in April 2025, his decisive budget vote cleared tax writers to run up deficits by as much as $4.5 trillion. In the Congressional Budget Office's dynamic estimate, the higher interest rates the law brings would add $405 billion to federal interest costs through 2034. A year after that budget vote, Murphy voted for a resolution branding the law the "Working Families Tax Cuts." North Carolina, meanwhile, forfeits $22.5 billion in federal Medicaid money.
Greg Murphy's Votes on the Tax Law and the Deficit
- The Law Murphy Voted For Gives the Richest Tenth $13,600 a Year and the Poorest a $1,200 Loss. With one member voting present, the House version of H.R. 1 squeezed through 215 to 214 on May 22, 2025. Greg Murphy's yes was one of the votes it could not lose. He voted yes again on July 3, 2025, when final passage carried 218 to 214. Reporting the Congressional Budget Office's estimate, Thomson Reuters wrote that "the top decile will receive a windfall of $13,600 every year." Its report adds that "the lowest-income earners will lose an average $1,200 in overall household resources," largely from the law's Medicaid and SNAP cuts.
- Murphy's Deciding Budget Vote Opened the Door to $4.5 Trillion in Debt-Financed Tax Cuts. Murphy's yes made the final budget resolution, H.Con.Res. 14, a 216-to-214 winner on April 10, 2025. Had he voted no, the tally would have tied and the resolution would have died. Its tax instruction let Ways and Means "increase the deficit by not more than $4,500,000,000,000 for fiscal years 2025 through 2034". Over ten years, the Senate-written bill that became law costs more than the House-passed one, according to the Yale Budget Lab. Summing up the Congressional Budget Office's dynamic estimate, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the law would "boost interest rates and thus increase interest costs by $405 billion" through 2034.
- Murphy Voted Yes as the House Credited the Law With Cutting Lower Earners' Taxes 15 Percent. Murphy was a yes on H.Res. 1156 when it passed 219 to 207 on April 16, 2026. The resolution titles the law the "Working Families Tax Cuts." It asserts the law "will result in a 15 percent tax cut for Americans whose income is in the bottom 40 percent." "For the poorest fifth of Americans, the average tax change from OBBBA is a small tax increase," the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy concluded. Its estimate gives the top 1 percent an average 2026 tax cut above $70,000. Those ITEP numbers count taxes alone; they leave out the Medicaid and food aid cuts, which ITEP puts at $1 trillion and $186 billion.
What Greg Murphy's Tax and Budget Votes Cost North Carolina
- North Carolina forfeits $22.5 billion in federal Medicaid funds while the tax cuts flow upward. Over ten years, the law strips $22.5 billion in federal Medicaid support from North Carolina, by KFF's split of the Congressional Budget Office estimate. That is 11% of the federal funds the state would have received. KFF's range spans $16.9 billion to $28.2 billion.
- 300,000 more North Carolinians lose health coverage by 2034. The law's health changes leave 300,000 more North Carolinians uninsured in 2034, KFF projects. The poorest households' $1,200 loss comes largely from coverage like this.
- North Carolina and its counties pick up SNAP costs Washington dropped. Counties in North Carolina must cover roughly $52 million in added SNAP paperwork costs in year one, NC Health News found. For fiscal 2028, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates the state's share of SNAP benefit costs at about $140 million. County budgets, paid for by local taxpayers, now carry the administrative cost.
Frequently Asked Questions About Greg Murphy on Taxes and the deficit
What is Greg Murphy's record on taxes and the deficit under Trump?
Greg Murphy voted on July 3, 2025 for a tax law that gives the top tenth about $13,600 a year and costs the poorest about $1,200, Thomson Reuters reported from Congressional Budget Office estimates. Earlier, his 2025 votes for the budget plan and for the House version were each decisive. In April 2026 he joined a House majority praising the law as tax relief for working families. North Carolina's federal Medicaid funds fall by $22.5 billion under it.
Did Greg Murphy vote to add to the deficit?
Greg Murphy did, first with his deciding April 10, 2025 budget vote allowing up to $4.5 trillion in new deficits, then with his votes for the law itself. Counting the law's effects on the economy, higher interest rates included, the Congressional Budget Office puts the added debt through 2034 at $4.2 trillion, according to a Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget summary.
Does the law Greg Murphy voted to praise in 2026 cut taxes for the poorest families?
Greg Murphy's April 16, 2026 vote went to the resolution that claims a 15 percent tax cut for lower earners. For the poorest fifth, ITEP's analysts instead find a small average tax increase in 2026. That is before counting the Medicaid and SNAP cuts.
Last updated: 2026-10-27