About $12.4 billion in federal Medicaid funding leaves Colorado over ten years because of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, in KFF's estimate. Jeff Hurd, the Republican elected from Colorado's 3rd District, was among the 215 yes votes that beat 214 when the House first passed it on May 22, 2025, and he voted yes again when the final version cleared on July 3, 2025.
Hurd voted yes on the February and April 2025 budget resolutions, adopted by margins of two votes each, whose instructions demanded at least $880 billion in savings from the committee over Medicaid and $230 billion from the one over SNAP; yes on the rules and procedural votes that brought the resolutions and H.R. 1 to the floor, as the roll calls below show; and yes on an April 2026 resolution celebrating the law. Seven of those roll calls would have failed or tied had he voted no. In his district, the law reaches 194,500 Medicaid enrollees, 174,797 Social Security recipients and 39,000 children shut out of the full child tax credit.
Jeff Hurd's House Votes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, in Order
- Three Yes Votes From Hurd, One of Them Deciding, Adopted the February 2025 Budget Plan, Which Ordered the House Committees Over Medicaid and SNAP to Find $880 Billion and $230 Billion. Hurd's three yeses on February 25, 2025 began with H.Res. 161, which set debate terms for the budget resolution: he voted for ordering the previous question, adopted 216 to 210, and then the rule, adopted 217 to 211. Last came H.Con.Res. 14 itself, adopted 217 to 215, where a switch by Hurd alone would have produced a tie, and a tied resolution fails. That resolution handed the Medicaid-writing Energy and Commerce Committee a duty to "reduce the deficit by not less than $880,000,000,000" across ten years, ordered the SNAP-writing Agriculture Committee to come up with no less than $230 billion, and let the Ways and Means Committee write tax cuts that raise deficits by up to $4.5 trillion.
- Hurd's Yes Decided the April 2025 Rule and the Final Budget Plan, Which Kept the $880 Billion Target for the Medicaid Committee. Across April 9 and 10, 2025, Hurd added three yeses: 217 to 212 on H.Res. 313's previous question, 216 to 215 to adopt that rule for taking up the Senate-amended budget resolution, and 216 to 214 to concur in the Senate's text. A no from Hurd would have sunk the rule outright and deadlocked the resolution. The Senate-amended text carried over the House committees' marching orders unchanged; the July 3, 2025 law then trimmed $911 billion over a decade from federal Medicaid, the Congressional Budget Office estimated, KFF noted.
- Hurd Was Part of the One-Vote Margin That Passed the House Bill, in May 2025. May 22, 2025, roll call by roll call: Hurd said yes, 217 to 211 and then 216 to 211, on the two questions of consideration for H.R. 1's rule; yes, 213 to 211, on ordering the previous question; yes, 217 to 212, on adopting the rule; no on the recommittal motion, defeated 212 to 216; and yes on the bill, 215 to 214, with one member present. Had he voted no, the previous question would have failed on a tie and the bill itself would have lost 214 to 215. From the Senate the bill returned as the law Hurd voted for in July, a law whose Medicaid sections alone, per the Congressional Budget Office in KFF's account, leave 7.5 million additional Americans without coverage in 2034, and that shut Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid payments for a "1-year period".
- Two July 2025 Procedural Votes Turned on Hurd's Yes Before He Joined the 218 Who Enacted the Law. Hurd's last five yeses, on July 2 and 3, 2025, began with four on H.Res. 566, the rule for the Senate's text: consideration, carried 212 to 211; the previous question, carried 214 to 212; a Foxx amendment, agreed to 220 to 212; and adoption, 219 to 213. The fifth was the motion to concur, the law's final passage, 218 to 214. On the first two, his no alone would have defeated one and tied the other. Public Law 119-21 was signed on July 4, 2025. Ten million more people go uninsured in 2034 under the law, the Congressional Budget Office projects in KFF's report, and "The megabill cuts SNAP by $187 billion or about 20 percent by 2034," the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found.
- Nine Months After It Became Law, Hurd Voted for a House Resolution Praising It as Working-Family Tax Relief, in April 2026. Hurd joined the 219 to 207 majority for H.Res. 1156 on April 16, 2026, a resolution branding the law the "Working Families Tax Cuts" and claiming it "will result in a 15 percent tax cut for Americans whose income is in the bottom 40 percent." The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that "For the poorest fifth of Americans, the average tax change from OBBBA is a small tax increase" for 2026, and the top 1 percent are ahead by more than $70,000 apiece on average.
What the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Costs Colorado, Topic by Topic, After Jeff Hurd's Votes
- Colorado forfeits $12.4 billion in federal Medicaid money that covers 194,500 people in the 3rd District. Over ten years, KFF's state breakdown of the Congressional Budget Office estimate removes $12.4 billion, or 14%, from what Washington would have sent Colorado for Medicaid; in Colorado's 3rd District, 194,500 people were enrolled in 2025. For the votes behind it, see Jeff Hurd's health care page.
- A decade of federal Medicaid cuts costs rural Colorado $1.66 billion. In rural Colorado the law withdraws $1.66 billion in federal Medicaid spending over a decade, KFF estimates, and KFF expects the hospital provider tax that helps fund Colorado Medicaid to shrink; small-town hospitals end up with less to stay open. See the health care page.
- 1,036,586 Coloradans on Medicare face an earlier hospital fund shortfall and pricier drugs. Medicare covered 1,036,586 Coloradans in 2024; their hospital trust fund is now projected to run dry one quarter sooner, in the second quarter of 2033, primarily because of the law, and an $8.8 billion orphan-drug exemption shields more drugs from price negotiation. See Jeff Hurd on Medicare.
- Medicaid pays first for 63% of Colorado nursing-home residents as the law cuts Medicaid financing that reaches nursing homes. Colorado's 14,959 certified nursing-facility residents rely on Medicaid as primary payer at a 63% rate, and $340 billion in federal Medicaid money tied to provider taxes and state payments, financing that helps pay for their care, disappears under the law. See Jeff Hurd on elder care.
- 18,300 people with disabilities in the 3rd District rely on Medicaid while 2,749 Coloradans wait for home care. Medicaid in Colorado's 3rd District enrolled 18,300 people with disabilities, KFF counts, and 2,749 Coloradans sat on Medicaid home-care waiting lists, care that is optional for states and more exposed when federal money falls. See Jeff Hurd on disability rights.
- 85% of Colorado Medicaid adults on opioid-addiction medication were expansion enrollees facing work rules from 2027. Of the 14,541 Colorado Medicaid adults who received medication for opioid use disorder in 2021, 12,359, or 85%, were covered through the expansion the law puts behind a work requirement starting by January 2027. See Jeff Hurd on mental health and addiction.
- Colorado inherits 75% of SNAP's running costs, and CBPP estimated 23,000 older adults and 15,000 parents at risk from wider time limits. Washington's share of SNAP administration drops to just 25 percent from fiscal year 2027, and CBPP, gauging in June 2025 the Senate Agriculture Committee's take on the wider work rules, counted 23,000 Coloradans in their late working years, 55 to 64, plus 15,000 parents of teens at risk. See Jeff Hurd on food assistance.
- 150,000 more Coloradans will be uninsured in 2034. The law by itself swells Colorado's uninsured population by 150,000 in 2034, KFF projects, people who then skip care or carry medical debt. See Jeff Hurd on homelessness and poverty.
- 29% of the 3rd District's children get only part of the child tax credit or none. Under the law's phase-in, 39,000 children in Colorado's 3rd District, 29%, have parents who earn too little to claim the whole credit, in the estimate of Columbia's poverty center. See Jeff Hurd on child care and families.
- 174,797 Social Security recipients in the 3rd District depend on a program the law burdens with $168.6 billion. By the chief actuary's math, the law raises Social Security's costs $168.6 billion over 2025 to 2034; 174,797 residents of Colorado's 3rd District were on the rolls in December 2024, and the average Colorado retiree's check drops $515 a month once the retirement fund is exhausted. See Jeff Hurd on Social Security.
- Colorado's SAVE borrowers face $2,512 more in yearly payments. The average Colorado borrower forced from SAVE into the law's Repayment Assistance Plan pays $2,512 more a year, by the Center for American Progress's numbers. See Jeff Hurd on student debt.
- Colorado's average household could see energy costs about $310 a year higher by 2035, eating into tax savings. By 2035 the law's energy provisions could lift the average Colorado household's energy outlays by about $310 a year in Energy Innovation's projection, which CNBC published. See Jeff Hurd on taxes and the deficit.
- The law ended veterans' SNAP time-limit exemption; 24,000 Colorado veterans live in SNAP households. CBPP estimates that 24,000 Colorado veterans live where SNAP helps buy groceries, and the law ended the veterans' exemption from the three-month SNAP limit for those of them who fall under it. See Jeff Hurd on veterans.
Frequently Asked Questions About Jeff Hurd on One Big Beautiful Bill
What is Jeff Hurd's record on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act under Trump?
Jeff Hurd said yes to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at its two budget-resolution votes, on the rules that brought it to the floor, on its May 22, 2025 House version and on its July 3, 2025 final version, and in April 2026 he cast a vote praising it. KFF's state estimate of what the law costs Colorado in federal Medicaid funding is $12.4 billion across ten years.
Did Jeff Hurd cast a deciding vote for the Big Beautiful Bill?
Seven times, Jeff Hurd's yes was one the outcome depended on: the House version, 215 to 214; the February budget resolution, 217 to 215; the April rule, 216 to 215, and resolution, 216 to 214; the May previous-question vote, 213 to 211; and, in July, two procedural roll calls on the final version's rule, 212 to 211 for consideration and 214 to 212 for the previous question.
When do the Big Beautiful Bill's costs reach Colorado?
Most land in fiscal year 2027 or soon after: under the law Jeff Hurd voted for, Colorado pays three-quarters of SNAP's administrative costs from fiscal year 2027, states have until January 1, 2027 at the latest to launch the Medicaid work rule, and, under CMS's proposed timeline, Medicare coverage stops on February 1, 2027 for immigrants the grace period already flagged. In 2028, KFF found, the new caps on state-directed payments start pulling hospital payment rates down in at least 37 states.
What does the Big Beautiful Bill cost Colorado's 3rd District?
In Jeff Hurd's own district, the law he voted for cuts the Medicaid funding behind coverage for 194,500 people, leaves 39,000 children, 29%, without the full child tax credit, and adds to the costs of the Social Security program that pays 174,797 district residents, by KFF, Columbia University and Social Security Administration counts.
Last updated: 2026-10-27