On July 3, 2025, Jeff Crank was among the 218 voting for the final One Big Beautiful Bill Act, whose child tax credit, by the estimate of Columbia's poverty research center, reaches 30,000 children in Colorado's 5th District only partly or not at all, 19% of the district's kids, because their families' earnings are too low.
Crank voted for the House version on May 22, 2025, and his yes was needed for its 215-to-214 win; on April 16, 2026, he followed with a vote for H.Res. 1156, a resolution crediting the law with measures that "permanently expand the child tax credit."
Because the child care tax credit in that law still cannot exceed what a family owes in tax, families under $30,000 a year receive no part of its expansion.
Jeff Crank's Votes on Tax Credits for Children and Child Care
- Crank Voted for a Child Tax Credit That Leaves More Than a Quarter of Children Nationally Short of the Full Credit, Then Voted to Praise It. The final One Big Beautiful Bill Act got 218 yes votes to 214 on July 3, 2025, Jeff Crank's included; his May 22 yes had been one the House version needed in a 215-to-214 vote. On April 16, 2026, he voted again, this time for H.Res. 1156, whose text holds that the new tax law's provisions "permanently expand the child tax credit." Because the credit still phases in with earnings, "more than 1 in 4 children (28%) under age 17 will be ineligible for the full Child Tax Credit," Columbia's poverty center calculates; the full amount requires $41,500 or more in income for a two-parent, two-child family. The National Immigration Law Center says a separate requirement "strips the Child Tax Credit from the approximately 2.6 million or more children" in families where no parent on the return has a work-eligible Social Security number.
- Crank Approved a Child Care Credit Expansion That Leaves Out Families Under $30,000. In the final law Crank voted for, the child and dependent care credit grew larger yet stayed nonrefundable. It can only shave income tax already owed, which means a family that owes the IRS little gets little back, and one that owes nothing gets nothing. "Families making less than $30,000 won't benefit at all" from the change, which starts in 2026, the National Women's Law Center found. Citing a recent analysis, the group put the share of families with children receiving any increase at a mere 8.5 percent, with close to 80 percent of the benefit collected by the middle and top of the income ladder.
What Jeff Crank's Votes Mean for Colorado Families
- Crank's district has 30,000 children whose families earn too little for the whole child tax credit. About 30,000 kids, 19% of all children in Colorado's 5th District, fall below the earnings needed for the full credit under the final law, by the Columbia poverty center's district estimates. Those are the households where a few hundred or a few thousand dollars at tax time goes to rent, diapers and car repairs, and where it does the most good.
- CBPP's June 2025 estimate put 15,000 Colorado parents of teens at risk of losing food aid. Parents of teens 14 and up lost their SNAP work-rule exemption under the law, and CBPP's June 2025 math on the Senate Agriculture Committee's version of that change put 15,000 Colorado parents in danger of being cut off in a typical month, and the groceries SNAP buys feed their teenagers too.
- 60,400 children in Crank's district are covered by Medicaid. Children are the largest group on Medicaid in Colorado's 5th District, 60,400 of them in 2025 by KFF's count, and the federal dollars that help pay for their checkups, shots and medicine are among those the law reduces by $12.4 billion in Colorado.
Frequently Asked Questions About Jeff Crank on Child care and families
What is Jeff Crank's record on child care and families under Trump?
In 2025, Jeff Crank's votes for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act included a deciding yes on the House version and a yes on the final law, and in April 2026 he voted for a resolution hailing its child tax credit. By Columbia's estimate, 30,000 children in Colorado's 5th District, 19%, come up short of the full credit on account of low family earnings. Meanwhile the enlarged child care credit pays $0 to households earning less than $30,000.
When does the child care tax credit change Jeff Crank voted for reach Colorado families?
The child and dependent care credit change in the law Jeff Crank voted for begins with the 2026 tax year, according to the National Women's Law Center, so Colorado families see it on the returns they file for that year. Families who get a bigger credit average only $890, the center reported, and families earning under $30,000 receive none of it because the credit stays nonrefundable.
How did Jeff Crank vote on the 2026 House resolution praising the child tax credit?
Jeff Crank voted yes on April 16, 2026, as H.Res. 1156 passed 219 to 207. The resolution states that the Working Families Tax Cuts "permanently expand the child tax credit," yet Columbia figures 28% of children across the country, 30,000 of them in Crank's district, still fall short of the full credit.
Last updated: 2026-10-27