A fifth of SNAP, $187 billion through 2034, disappears under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by the reckoning of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Jeff Hurd of Colorado's 3rd District supplied a vote the House version could not spare on May 22, 2025, then voted yes on the final law on July 3, 2025.
Three months before the House vote, Hurd's yes had already decided the February 2025 budget resolution ordering the SNAP committee to find $230 billion. The final law he voted for hands Colorado three-quarters of SNAP's administrative bill from fiscal 2027 and widens the time limit to reach Coloradans aged 55 to 64; CBPP's June 2025 estimate for a Senate Agriculture Committee proposal with the law's two time-limit expansions judged 23,000 of them at risk, along with 15,000 parents of teenagers.
Jeff Hurd's Votes on SNAP and What They Cost Colorado
- Hurd Voted for the House Version and for the Final Law's $187 Billion SNAP Cut, the Largest in the Program's History. H.R. 1's House version got through 215 to 214 on May 22, 2025, so Hurd's yes was indispensable; on July 3, 2025, his yes joined the 218 that sent the final law past 214 opponents. By the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' count, "The megabill cuts SNAP by $187 billion or about 20 percent by 2034," the deepest cut SNAP has ever taken. Its stricter work rules now reach adults up to age 64 and parents of teenagers, end the exemptions veterans and people without housing had, and the Congressional Budget Office expects them to "reduce participation in SNAP by roughly 2.4 million people in an average month."
- In February 2025, Hurd's Deciding Budget Vote Gave SNAP's Authors on the Agriculture Committee a $230 Billion Order. The House's February 25, 2025 budget resolution, H.Con.Res. 14, carried by two votes, 217 to 215, so Hurd crossing over would have left a dead-even tally and a dead resolution. Among its orders: the Agriculture Committee was to "reduce the deficit by not less than $230,000,000,000". Hurd also cast yes votes on the rules governing H.R. 1's floor debates in May and July 2025. The SNAP cuts in the law passed on July 3, 2025 followed from that instruction, among them a rule that has Washington pay only 25 percent of the cost of administering the program from fiscal year 2027, with each state covering the remainder.
What the SNAP Cuts Jeff Hurd Voted For Cost Colorado Families and the State Budget
- In CBPP's June 2025 estimate, stretched work rules endangered SNAP for 23,000 older Coloradans and 15,000 mothers and fathers of teens. In June 2025, for the Senate Agriculture Committee's version, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities projected that pushing SNAP's time limit to cover adults 55 through 64 and parents whose youngest child is at least 14, both now law, would put roughly 23,000 older Coloradans and 15,000 Colorado parents at risk of losing benefits in a typical month. Anyone who cannot show 80 hours of work a month loses food aid after three months.
- Colorado must pay 75% of SNAP's administrative costs starting in fiscal 2027. Under the law, the federal government covers only a quarter of what it costs to run SNAP from fiscal year 2027, so Colorado's budget must carry the rest of the caseworkers, offices and eligibility systems; every dollar the state moves there is a dollar not spent on other services.
- 24,000 Colorado veterans live in SNAP households, and the law ended the veterans' exemption from its time limit. Some 24,000 of Colorado's 342,000 veterans, 7%, lived in SNAP households over 2021 to 2023, according to CBPP estimates; the law strips those subject to the work rule of the veterans exemption from its three-month clock.
Frequently Asked Questions About Jeff Hurd on Food Assistance
What is Jeff Hurd's record on food assistance under Trump?
Jeff Hurd's votes were decisive twice on SNAP: in February 2025 for a budget plan demanding $230 billion from the Agriculture Committee, and in May 2025 for H.R. 1's House version. He then voted for the final law, the largest SNAP cut in history in the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' assessment; when CBPP sized up the Senate Agriculture Committee's version in June 2025, its wider work rules threatened benefits for 23,000 Coloradans ages 55 to 64.
Which Colorado parents lose their SNAP exemption under the law Jeff Hurd voted for?
Parents of teenagers: the law Jeff Hurd voted for lets a parent skip SNAP's work rule only while raising a child under 14, so once the youngest turns 14, the parent has to document work hours. CBPP researchers, scoring a Senate Agriculture Committee proposal with the same change in June 2025, flagged about 15,000 Colorado parents in that position as at risk of losing food aid.
What does the SNAP cost shift Jeff Hurd voted for mean for Colorado's budget?
The law Jeff Hurd voted for drops Washington's share of SNAP's administrative costs to 25 percent beginning in fiscal year 2027, leaving Colorado to cover three of every four dollars spent on eligibility workers and systems. Hurd's February 2025 vote for the budget resolution that set a $230 billion target for the Agriculture Committee was decisive.
Last updated: 2026-10-27