On July 3, 2025, Jeff Crank voted aye on the final One Big Beautiful Bill Act, under which, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, households in the top decile gain about $13,600 a year on average while households at the bottom lose about $1,200 a year.
In order, the bill's path ran through three more Crank votes: the April 10, 2025 budget resolution, which his vote decided and which allowed up to $4.5 trillion in deficit-financed tax changes; the House version on May 22, which passed 215 to 214 with him; and, after enactment, his April 16, 2026 vote for H.Res. 1156, which hailed the law as the "Working Families Tax Cuts."
Part of the bill's cost is paid in Colorado: KFF allocates $12.4 billion of the law's ten-year federal Medicaid cut to the state.
Jeff Crank's Votes on the Tax Cuts and the Debt
- Crank Voted for Tax Changes That Hand the Top Tenth $13,600 a Year and Take $1,200 From the Bottom. Two House votes on passage, two Crank yeses: May 22, 2025, when the House version won 215 to 214 and one switched vote would have killed it, and July 3, 2025, when the final law cleared 218 to 214. Netting out every provision, the Congressional Budget Office's distributional analysis has the richest tenth of households coming out $13,600 a year ahead, while households in the lowest tenth lose about $1,200 a year in resources on average, mostly from the Medicaid and SNAP reductions that offset part of the tax breaks.
- Crank Decided the April 2025 Vote Authorizing $4.5 Trillion in Borrowed Tax Cuts. The House concurred in the Senate's version of H.Con.Res. 14 on April 10, 2025, 216 to 214, with Crank in favor; had he switched, the vote would have tied and the resolution would have failed. Its tax instruction gave Ways and Means room for changes that "increase the deficit by not more than $4,500,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2025 through 2034". What emerged from the Senate and became law costs more across 2025 to 2034 than the House-passed bill, by Yale Budget Lab's estimate, and in the Congressional Budget Office's dynamic score, as the budget watchdog CRFB summarized it, the law's economic effects would also "boost interest rates and thus increase interest costs by $405 billion" through 2034.
- In 2026 Crank Voted to Credit the Law With a 15 Percent Tax Cut for the Bottom 40 Percent. Crank was among the 219 House members who adopted H.Res. 1156 over 207 opponents on April 16, 2026. The resolution branded the law the "Working Families Tax Cuts" and claimed it "will result in a 15 percent tax cut for Americans whose income is in the bottom 40 percent". ITEP, a tax research group, found the reverse at the bottom of the ladder: "For the poorest fifth of Americans, the average tax change from OBBBA is a small tax increase," even as the top one percent collects an average tax cut above $70,000 in 2026 alone.
What Jeff Crank's Tax Votes Cost Colorado
- Colorado forfeits $12.4 billion in federal Medicaid money under the law that cut taxes at the top. Splitting the Congressional Budget Office's Medicaid estimate by state, KFF assigns Colorado $12.4 billion of the ten-year reduction, 14% of the federal Medicaid funding the state would have received. Those dollars paid for clinic visits and hospital care in Colorado; the tax cuts they now help offset tilt toward the richest, with more than 70 percent going to the top fifth.
- 150,000 more Coloradans uninsured in 2034 is part of the price of the tax law. The coverage losses in the same law add 150,000 Coloradans to the uninsured in 2034, KFF projects; uninsured patients' unpaid bills end up shifted onto hospitals and insured families in the state.
Frequently Asked Questions About Jeff Crank on Taxes and the deficit
What is Jeff Crank's record on taxes and the deficit under Trump?
Under Trump, Jeff Crank cast these House votes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: the deciding vote on the April 2025 budget resolution, which okayed as much as $4.5 trillion in extra deficits, a deciding vote for the House version, a vote for the final law and an April 2026 vote praising it. By the Congressional Budget Office's count, the richest tenth comes out about $13,600 a year ahead and the poorest tenth about $1,200 behind, on average, and KFF puts Colorado's Medicaid loss at $12.4 billion.
How much debt does the law Jeff Crank voted for pile on?
Jeff Crank voted for a law expected to raise federal debt by $4.2 trillion over the decade ending in 2034, and by $4.7 trillion with 2035 included, in the Congressional Budget Office estimate that CRFB summarized. That estimate includes $405 billion in added interest from the higher rates the law's economic effects bring.
Who gets most of the tax cuts in the law Jeff Crank voted for?
Jeff Crank voted for a law whose tax cuts flow mostly to the top: "More than 70 percent of the net tax cuts will go to the richest fifth" of Americans, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found. The richest one percent average more than $70,000 in 2026, while the poorest fifth, ITEP says, faces a small tax increase.
Last updated: 2026-10-27