Jeff Hurd is the Republican congressman for Colorado's 3rd District seat, sworn in on January 3, 2025, and voters decide on November 3, 2026 whether to return him for a second term. His yes on May 22, 2025 was part of the 215 to 214 margin that first passed H.R. 1, and his yes on July 3, 2025 helped enact the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which by KFF's estimate costs Colorado about $12.4 billion in federal Medicaid funding across a decade.
About Jeff Hurd
- Full name
- Jeff Hurd, shown in his Clerk of the House profile as a Colorado Republican from the 3rd District
- Current role
- Member of the House from Colorado's 3rd District, sitting on three committees: Natural Resources, Science, Space, and Technology, and Transportation and Infrastructure
- In office since
- January 3, 2025, when he took office representing Colorado's 3rd District
- Seeking
- Re-election to a second term, with the general election for Colorado's 3rd District on November 3, 2026
- Key votes
- Yes on the budget resolution, February 25, 2025, by 217 to 215; yes as H.R. 1 first cleared the House, May 22, 2025, by 215 to 214; yes as it cleared for the last time, July 3, 2025, by 218 to 214; and yes on a resolution praising the law, April 16, 2026, by 219 to 207
What Jeff Hurd Is Responsible For
- Medicaid and health coverage. Hurd's May 2025 yes was one H.R. 1 needed to clear the House 215 to 214, and he voted for the final law in July 2025; KFF estimates Colorado loses $12.4 billion in federal funding for Medicaid, a program with 194,500 enrollees in Colorado's 3rd District as of 2025, and that 150,000 more Coloradans will lack insurance in 2034.
- Budget plan and hospitals. Both 2025 budget resolutions passed on Hurd's deciding vote and set a minimum of $880 billion in savings for the committee over Medicaid; the law that followed in July 2025 limits the provider taxes states use for their share of Medicaid, and KFF expects Colorado's hospital provider tax to shrink.
- Rural health. Under the law Hurd voted for, KFF data show, $1.66 billion of Colorado's ten-year federal Medicaid cut falls on rural areas, where small hospitals and clinics lean on Medicaid patients.
- Medicare. Lawfully present immigrants who already qualified lose Medicare under the law Hurd voted for in July 2025, which KFF calls the first time Congress has done so; it also widens an orphan-drug exemption from price negotiation that costs Medicare an additional $8.8 billion; 1,036,586 Coloradans had Medicare in 2024.
- Nursing homes and home care. Hurd's July 2025 yes went to a law that leaves the nursing-home staffing standard unenforceable until 2034 and removes $340 billion in provider-tax and payment financing that helps pay hospitals and nursing homes; in Colorado, 63% of nursing-home residents depend on Medicaid as first payer, while 2,749 people sit on Medicaid home-care waiting lists.
- Mental health and addiction. Under the work requirement in the law Hurd voted for, the expansion coverage that 85% of Colorado Medicaid adults receiving opioid-addiction medication relied on in 2021 comes with hours to report by January 2027, and people with a substance use disorder are exempt, though under a federal Medicaid rule they must prove it if state records do not already show it.
- Food assistance. Hurd's February 2025 vote decided the budget plan that set a $230 billion target for the SNAP committee, and his July yes helped pass the law's SNAP cut, $187 billion through 2034 as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities measures it; for the Senate Agriculture Committee's version of the wider work rules, CBPP's June 2025 estimate found 23,000 Coloradans ages 55 to 64 at risk.
- The child tax credit. Because the law Hurd voted for kept the earnings phase-in, 39,000 children in Colorado's 3rd District, 29%, receive only part of the child tax credit or none, Columbia's poverty center estimates.
- Taxes and the deficit. By the Congressional Budget Office's distributional math for the law Hurd voted for, households in the richest tenth gain about $13,600 a year and those in the poorest tenth lose about $1,200; CBO's updated estimate adds $4.7 trillion to the debt through 2035.
- Social Security. Social Security's costs climb by $168.6 billion under the law Hurd voted for, its chief actuary found, and the law drags the retirement fund's shortfall into the final quarter of 2032; Social Security pays 174,797 people in Colorado's 3rd District.
- Student loans. A one-vote House margin in May 2025, Hurd's yes included, passed the House bill that created the Repayment Assistance Plan, and two months later the law Hurd also voted for shut Grad PLUS to newcomers; Colorado borrowers pushed off SAVE pay an average of $2,512 more each year, in Center for American Progress figures.
- Veterans. Hurd voted for the law that ended veterans' exemption from SNAP's three-month time limit, a change that reaches the working-age veterans among the 24,000 Colorado veterans in SNAP households; its Medicaid work rule's one veterans' exemption requires a total disability rating.
- Energy bills and jobs. The law Hurd voted for ends tax credits for home energy improvements and winds down credits for new wind and solar; Energy Innovation projects the average Colorado household's energy bills could climb about $310 more a year by 2035, as CNBC reported, and 760,000 jobs lost nationally by 2030.
- Immigration enforcement. Hurd voted for a law that "directs $170.7 billion toward immigration and border enforcement"; by March 2026, "nearly 70,000 people are in ICE detention, the highest number in several years", NPR reported.
- Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood was cut off from Medicaid payments for a year by the law Hurd voted for; in that year, the organization reported, nearly 30 of its health centers shut and Medicaid visits fell 25%, more than 250,000 visits.
- Consumer protection and silencers. The law Hurd voted for squeezed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Federal Reserve-funded budget limit down to 6.5% of a benchmark, from 12%, which by the Congressional Research Service's estimate leaves the bureau about $446 million to draw on for fiscal 2025 instead of $823 million. It also ended the $200 federal levy on silencers and short-barrel long guns, and the ATF, acting after a court ruling, dropped the registration requirement for those items on October 9, 2026.
How This Page on Jeff Hurd Is Sourced
Every vote here links to its official roll call from the Clerk of the House, such as House passage of H.R. 1 on May 22, 2025, and every Colorado or 3rd District figure links to the dataset it comes from, among them KFF's state-by-state Medicaid estimates and the Social Security Administration's Colorado congressional district statistics, while national figures link to the Congressional Budget Office, KFF, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other research groups, and the page was last updated on October 27, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions About Jeff Hurd
What is Jeff Hurd's record under Trump?
Jeff Hurd's House votes under Trump on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act include deciding votes for both 2025 budget resolutions and for its 215 to 214 House passage, a yes on the final law, and in April 2026 a vote to praise its tax provisions. KFF pegs Colorado's federal Medicaid loss under the law at $12.4 billion; SNAP gives up $187 billion, and Social Security shoulders $168.6 billion in new costs.
Did the House need Jeff Hurd's vote to pass the Big Beautiful Bill?
It needed Jeff Hurd's yes in May 2025: his was one of 215 on May 22, 2025, against 214 nos and one present, so his no would have sunk it. Hurd's yes was also among the 218 that adopted the final version over 214 nos on July 3, 2025.
How much does Colorado lose in Medicaid funding under the law Jeff Hurd voted for?
Colorado's federal Medicaid funding falls by about $12.4 billion across a decade under the law Jeff Hurd voted for, 14% of what the state would otherwise receive, as KFF divides up the Congressional Budget Office's estimate, with rural Colorado alone giving up $1.66 billion. KFF projects the uninsured count in Colorado rises by 150,000 in 2034 as a result.
What does the law Jeff Hurd voted for cost his district?
In Colorado's 3rd District, which Jeff Hurd represents, the law he voted for cuts the Medicaid money behind coverage for 194,500 people, 26% of residents, and leaves 39,000 children short of the full child tax credit. It also raises the costs of Social Security, which paid benefits to 174,797 district residents in December 2024.
Does the law Jeff Hurd voted for raise Colorado energy bills?
Yes: the energy provisions of the law Jeff Hurd voted for could push the typical Colorado household's energy spending up by roughly $310 annually by 2035, by Energy Innovation's projection as reported by CNBC, after the law ended home efficiency credits and began winding down wind and solar credits.
Did Jeff Hurd vote for a House resolution praising the Big Beautiful Bill?
Yes. Jeff Hurd's yes helped adopt H.Res. 1156 on April 16, 2026, a resolution that hailed the law as the "Working Families Tax Cuts"; by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy's math, Americans in the bottom fifth see a small average tax increase from the law in 2026.
Last updated: 2026-10-27