Jeff Crank (R) Colorado-5: Voting Record and Its Costs

Jeff Crank, a first-term Republican, holds the U.S. House seat for Colorado's 5th District, which he took on January 3, 2025, and he is a candidate for re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election. In 2025 he voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on both House passage votes: his yes was needed for the 215-to-214 vote of May 22, and the final law drew his vote on July 3, a law whose federal Medicaid reduction for Colorado KFF puts at $12.4 billion over a decade.

About Jeff Crank

Full name

Jeff Crank, Republican, listed by the House Clerk as the member for Colorado's 5th District

Current role

Sits on the House Armed Services and Natural Resources committees as Colorado's 5th District member

In office since

In his first term, has represented Colorado's 5th District since January 3, 2025, when he took the oath

Seeking

Another term, with Colorado's 5th District voting on November 3, 2026

Key votes

In date order: H.Con.Res. 14, the budget resolution (Feb. 25, 2025); H.R. 1 at House passage (May 22, 2025); H.R. 1 at final passage (July 3, 2025); H.Res. 1156, lauding the law's tax policies (April 16, 2026)

What Jeff Crank Is Responsible For

• Medicaid. The House version could not have passed 215 to 214 on May 22, 2025 without Crank, and he was a yes again on the final law July 3. KFF assigns Colorado $12.4 billion of the federal Medicaid cut, the money behind care for 156,300 enrollees in Colorado's 5th District, and the expansion-adult work rule must be running "no later than January 1, 2027."
• Uninsured Coloradans. Crank's July 2025 vote went to a law projected to add 150,000 Coloradans to the uninsured in 2034, by KFF's count, within the Congressional Budget Office's national estimate of 10 million.
• Rural hospitals. Given final House passage on July 3, 2025 with Crank voting aye, the law drains $1.66 billion in federal Medicaid funding from rural Colorado over ten years, KFF estimates, and KFF lists the state's hospital provider tax among those set to shrink, leaving small-town hospitals with less to pay for care.
• Food assistance. With his vote for the final law, Crank voted for a SNAP reduction of $187 billion through 2034, about one-fifth of the program, by CBPP's tally; CBPP's June 2025 estimate for the Senate Agriculture Committee's version of the same stricter work rules put aid at risk for 23,000 Coloradans between 55 and 64 and for 15,000 Colorado parents of teens, and the state has carried three-quarters of SNAP's administrative cost since October 1, 2026.
• Medicare. Lawfully present immigrants who lack green cards, refugees and asylees among them, lose Medicare under the law Crank voted for, with February 1, 2027 the end date, under CMS's proposed timeline, for those identified in the grace period; its tax changes also move the hospital fund's shortfall one quarter earlier, within 2033, for the 1,036,586 Coloradans on Medicare.
• Nursing homes. The law Crank voted for bars enforcement of the 2024 federal staffing minimums for nursing homes until September 30, 2034; in Colorado, 63% of nursing-home residents depend chiefly on Medicaid.
• Social Security. The program's chief actuary found Crank's law adds $168.6 billion to Social Security's costs from 2025 to 2034, and once the retirement fund falls short in late 2032, the average Colorado benefit shrinks $515 a month in CRFB's estimate.
• The child tax credit. Because their families earn too little, about 30,000 kids in Colorado's 5th District, 19%, get a reduced child tax credit or none at all under Crank's law, by Columbia's estimate.
• Student loans. Grad PLUS loans are gone under the law Crank voted for, and Coloradans switching from SAVE to the new repayment plan owe an average of $2,512 more a year, according to American Progress.
• Taxes and the deficit. Crank's decisive April 2025 vote opened room for as much as $4.5 trillion in borrowed tax cuts; the Congressional Budget Office's math on the resulting law has the top tenth ahead by roughly $13,600 a year and the bottom tenth behind by about $1,200.
• Energy bills. Crank's law ends the clean-energy credits, and as a result Colorado households could pay about $310 more a year on average for energy by 2035, by the Energy Innovation projection CNBC published.
• Jobs. On Energy Innovation's projection, the energy sections of Crank's law mean "Workers suffer 760,000 lost jobs by 2030."
• Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood was shut out of Medicaid payments for a "1-year period" by the law Crank voted for, and in that year close to 30 health centers of its own closed their doors and Medicaid visits there fell by more than 250,000, the organization reported.
• Immigration enforcement money. Crank's law "directs $170.7 billion toward immigration and border enforcement"; NPR reported in March 2026 that "nearly 70,000 people are in ICE detention, the highest number in several years."
• The consumer bureau. Crank's law, in section 30001, shrank the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's budget ceiling from 12% of a Federal Reserve benchmark to 6.5%, cutting it to roughly $446 million in fiscal 2025 from $823 million, the Congressional Research Service calculated.
• Silencers and short-barreled guns. The $200 federal tax on silencers and on short-barreled shotguns and rifles is gone under Crank's law, and once a court held that the tax's end undercut federal registration of those weapons, the ATF dropped its registration requirement on October 9, 2026.

How This Page on Jeff Crank Is Sourced

Each vote cited here is linked to its roll call on the House Clerk's website, starting with the May 22, 2025 House passage of H.R. 1, and Colorado and 5th District numbers are linked to sources such as KFF's state Medicaid allocation and CRFB's state-by-state Social Security estimates; national figures link to the Congressional Budget Office, KFF, CBPP and other researchers. This page was last updated on October 27, 2026.

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