Families of 39,000 children in Colorado's 3rd District, 29% of its children, earn too little to get the full child tax credit under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Columbia University researchers estimate, and Jeff Hurd, the district's Republican representative, voted for the law on July 3, 2025, having been one of the 215 who carried its House version over 214.
The same law's larger child care tax credit pays nothing to families earning under $30,000. In April 2026 Hurd went further, voting for H.Res. 1156, which commended the law for a permanent child tax credit expansion. Medicaid covered 71,400 children in his district in 2025, and the law trims $12.4 billion from Colorado's federal Medicaid money.
Jeff Hurd's Votes on the Child Tax Credit and Child Care
- 39,000 Children in Hurd's District Miss the Full Child Tax Credit Under the Law He Voted For and Then Voted to Praise. Hurd's yes votes on H.R. 1 came on May 22, 2025, when the House version cleared 215 to 214, and July 3, 2025, when the final law cleared 218 to 214. Nine months later, on April 16, 2026, Hurd cast a yes for H.Res. 1156, which lauded the law for moves to "permanently expand the child tax credit." Because the law kept an earnings phase-in, "more than 1 in 4 children (28%) under age 17 will be ineligible for the full Child Tax Credit," by the estimate of Columbia University's poverty center; a married couple raising two children has to earn $41,500 or more before the full credit applies.
- Hurd Voted for a Child Care Tax Credit Worth Nothing to Families Earning Under $30,000. The child and dependent care credit grew in the law Hurd voted for, yet it stayed nonrefundable, so a household with a small income-tax bill, or none, gets a small credit, or none. Once the change takes effect in 2026, "families making less than $30,000 won't benefit at all," the National Women's Law Center found; it cited Tax Policy Center figures showing only 8.5 percent of families with children get a bigger credit, while middle- and upper-income families collect almost 80 percent of the gain.
What Jeff Hurd's Votes Cost Families in Colorado's 3rd District
- 29% of the 3rd District's children, 39,000 kids, get a partial child tax credit or none. Columbia's Center on Poverty and Social Policy finds that under the final law nearly three in ten children in the district, 39,000 in all, fall short of the full child tax credit because their parents' earnings are too low. Each of those families receives a partial credit or none, every year, money that would have gone to rent, food and child care.
- 71,400 children in Colorado's 3rd District rely on the Medicaid program the law cuts. KFF data put 71,400 children on Medicaid in Colorado's 3rd District in 2025, more than any other group of enrollees there. Their checkups, vaccines and sick visits are paid partly with federal Medicaid money, which drops by $12.4 billion in Colorado over the next decade.
- 15,000 Colorado parents of teenagers were at risk of losing SNAP in CBPP's June 2025 estimate. The moment a parent's youngest child reaches 14, the law removes that parent's exemption from SNAP's work rule, and in June 2025, scoring a Senate Agriculture Committee plan that ended the exemption at the same age, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities counted about 15,000 Colorado parents in that spot at risk of losing food aid, which leaves less on the table for the teenagers in those homes.
Frequently Asked Questions About Jeff Hurd on Child care and families
What is Jeff Hurd's record on child care and families under Trump?
Jeff Hurd's July 2025 yes went to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and under it 29% of the children in his district get less than the whole child tax credit because of their parents' low earnings and the child care credit offers nothing below $30,000 of income. He followed in April 2026 with a vote for a House resolution celebrating the law's child tax credit.
Which children lose the child tax credit entirely under the law Jeff Hurd voted for?
Jeff Hurd voted for a law with a new rule that "strips the Child Tax Credit from the approximately 2.6 million or more children" nationwide, the National Immigration Law Center found, by denying it when no parent on the return has a Social Security number that is valid for work.
How much does the child care credit Jeff Hurd voted for give families who get it?
An average of $890: that is what families who benefit from the child care credit Jeff Hurd voted for receive, the National Women's Law Center reports, though the credit is worth up to $3,000 on paper, because it remains nonrefundable and lower-income families cannot use it.
Last updated: 2026-10-27