Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the lowest-earning tenth of American households loses about $1,200 a year, chiefly through its Medicaid and SNAP cuts, while the top tenth pockets about $13,600, the Congressional Budget Office calculates. Jeff Hurd of Colorado's 3rd District cast the final-passage yes on July 3, 2025 that followed his decisive May 22, 2025 yes on the House version.
Hurd's February 2025 budget vote was also decisive; that resolution told the committees over SNAP and Medicaid to find savings of at least $230 billion and $880 billion. The law also takes away the SNAP time-limit exemption that protected homeless adults, and the uninsured count in Colorado rises by 150,000 in 2034 under KFF's projection.
Jeff Hurd's Votes on Aid for the Lowest-Income Households
- Hurd Voted for a Law That Costs the Poorest Households $1,200 a Year While the Top Tenth Gains $13,600. Hurd's yes helped carry the final H.R. 1, 218 to 214, on July 3, 2025, six weeks after his May 22 yes delivered the House version's 215 to 214 margin. The richest tenth gains about $13,600 a year under the law in the Congressional Budget Office's analysis, while households at the bottom lose ground, mostly because of what is cut from Medicaid and SNAP; the SNAP cut by itself, $187 billion through 2034, is the largest the program has seen, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found.
- Hurd's Deciding Budget Vote Ordered SNAP's and Medicaid's House Committees to Find $230 Billion and $880 Billion. Hurd's yes was part of a two-vote margin, 217 to 215, for H.Con.Res. 14 on February 25, 2025; had he defected, the tie would have killed it. Its instructions: $230 billion or more from the panel that writes SNAP law, the Agriculture Committee, and $880 billion or more from the one that writes Medicaid law, Energy and Commerce. The law passed on July 3, 2025 then ended the exemptions that kept homeless adults, veterans and young people leaving foster care off SNAP's three-month limit, and the Congressional Budget Office projects SNAP participation in those groups falling by a net 300,000 people.
What Jeff Hurd's Votes Cost Low-Income Coloradans
- 150,000 more Coloradans lose health coverage by 2034, adding medical bills to the tightest budgets. KFF expects the law, on its own, to add 150,000 Coloradans to the uninsured in 2034. The 3rd District's 59,500 expansion adults, the low-income group facing the law's work rules and eligibility checks every six months, were on Medicaid in 2025; those who lose it delay care or run up medical debt.
- 39,000 children in Colorado's 3rd District miss the full child tax credit because their parents earn too little. Nearly three in ten children in Colorado's 3rd District, 39,000 in all, get only part of the child tax credit or none because their parents' earnings fall short of the phase-in, Columbia University's Center on Poverty and Social Policy estimates; they are the households with the least left over for rent and food.
- CBPP's June 2025 estimate put 23,000 Coloradans ages 55 to 64 at risk of losing SNAP under a stretched time limit. The law extends SNAP's time limit to people 55 through 64, and when the Senate Agriculture Committee proposed that same extension, CBPP's June 2025 estimate found it threatened benefits for about 23,000 Coloradans in that bracket, plus 15,000 parents whose youngest child is a teenager.
Frequently Asked Questions About Jeff Hurd on Homelessness and poverty
What is Jeff Hurd's record on homelessness and poverty under Trump?
Jeff Hurd's votes decided the February 2025 budget plan and, in May 2025, the House's own passage of H.R. 1, and he voted for its final version, which takes $187 billion from SNAP and removes the time-limit exemption that protected homeless adults. By the Congressional Budget Office's estimate, households in the bottom tenth end up roughly $1,200 a year worse off.
How much did Jeff Hurd's votes take from SNAP and Medicaid?
Jeff Hurd's July 3, 2025 yes went to a law that, by 2034, takes about 20 percent out of SNAP, and that takes roughly $911 billion out of federal Medicaid over a decade, $12.4 billion of it from Colorado; his yes on May 22, 2025 had been the House version's margin.
What does the law Jeff Hurd voted for cost the poorest households in taxes?
Jeff Hurd voted for a law under which "For the poorest fifth of Americans, the average tax change from OBBBA is a small tax increase" in 2026, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found, while the richest 1 percent gain more than $70,000 on average; in April 2026 Hurd voted for a resolution praising the law as a tax cut for working families.
Last updated: 2026-10-27