On July 3, 2025, Jeff Crank added his yes to the final One Big Beautiful Bill Act. In the Congressional Budget Office's distributional math, the top decile walks away about $13,600 a year ahead and the bottom decile comes out behind, mostly through lost Medicaid and SNAP.
Crank's path to that vote: on February 25, 2025, his decisive yes adopted a budget plan with deficit-reduction floors of $230 billion for SNAP's committee and $880 billion for Medicaid's; on May 22 his yes carried the House bill, 215 to 214.
For Colorado, KFF projects 150,000 more people without health coverage in 2034 as a result of the law.
Jeff Crank's Votes on Aid for the Poorest Households
- Crank Voted for a Law That Moves Resources From the Poorest Households Toward the Top Tenth. Jeff Crank was a yes both times the House voted on passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: the 218-to-214 final vote on July 3, 2025 and the 215-to-214 vote on May 22, 2025, which he decided. Under the law, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, households in the lowest tenth lose about $1,200 a year, chiefly because of its Medicaid and SNAP cuts, while the highest tenth gains about $13,600. The SNAP piece alone is $187 billion through 2034, more than any cut in SNAP's history, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found. The final law also ended the carve-outs from SNAP's three-month cap for homeless adults, veterans and former foster youth, and CBO's estimate is a net drop of 300,000 people from SNAP in those groups.
- Crank Supplied a Decisive Budget Vote Setting $230 Billion and $880 Billion Savings Floors for the SNAP and Medicaid Committees. Crank's yes on February 25, 2025 came in a 217-to-215 vote adopting H.Con.Res. 14, and flipping only his vote yields 216 to 216, and a tied resolution fails. The plan set two floors: SNAP's committee, Agriculture, had to find $230 billion or more, and Medicaid's, Energy and Commerce, $880 billion or more. Agriculture writes SNAP law and Energy and Commerce writes Medicaid law, so the floors pointed the required savings at food aid and health coverage for low-income households.
What Jeff Crank's Votes Mean for Low-Income and Homeless Coloradans
- 150,000 more Coloradans will be uninsured in 2034, and medical bills follow. KFF's projection for the law alone is 150,000 additional uninsured Coloradans in 2034, with a range of 110,000 to 190,000. For families living close to the edge, an uninsured hospital stay is the kind of bill that ends in collections, an eviction or a night in a car.
- 49,500 low-income adults in Crank's district face work rules and new copays. Medicaid's expansion group, adults with incomes up to 138% of the poverty line, numbered 49,500 people in Colorado's 5th District in 2025, KFF's district data show. The law makes them report work hours by January 2027 at the latest, and from October 1, 2028 providers may bill those with incomes over the poverty line as much as $35 per service.
- CBPP's June 2025 estimate put tens of thousands of low-income Coloradans at risk of losing food aid. CBPP estimated in June 2025, for the Senate Agriculture Committee's proposal, that stretching SNAP's work rules to adults 55 to 64 and to parents whose youngest child is at least 14, as the final law also did, put food aid at risk for 23,000 and 15,000 Coloradans, respectively; homeless Coloradans lost their exemption from the time limit outright.
Frequently Asked Questions About Jeff Crank on Homelessness and poverty
What is Jeff Crank's record on homelessness and poverty under Trump?
Jeff Crank voted in 2025 for the budget resolution and the House bill his votes decided, both steps toward the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and for the final law, which, the Congressional Budget Office says, drains about $1,200 a year from bottom-decile households, on average, while adding about $13,600 for the top decile. It cuts SNAP by $187 billion and strips homeless adults of their SNAP time-limit exemption. KFF projects 150,000 more uninsured Coloradans in 2034.
Did Jeff Crank vote to end the SNAP exemption for homeless people in Colorado?
Yes: the July 3, 2025 law Jeff Crank voted for took away the exemption from SNAP's three-month limit that had covered homeless people, veterans and young people leaving foster care. A homeless adult in Colorado without proof of 80 monthly hours at a job or in training now loses food aid after three months. CBO's count is 300,000 fewer people in those groups on SNAP, net.
When do the cuts Jeff Crank voted for reach low-income Coloradans?
The law Jeff Crank voted for arrives in waves. Since October 1, 2026, three-quarters of SNAP's administrative cost in Colorado has been the state's to pay; Medicaid expansion adults face six-month eligibility checks from renewals due December 31, 2026 and the work requirement by January 1, 2027; states with high SNAP error rates start paying part of benefits in fiscal 2028; and Medicaid copays of up to $35 for expansion adults above the poverty line begin October 1, 2028.
Last updated: 2026-10-27