For the richest tenth of households, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is worth roughly $13,600 a year; for the poorest tenth it is a loss of roughly $1,200, the Congressional Budget Office found. Jeff Hurd of Colorado's 3rd District was a yes when the House version squeaked through 215 to 214 on May 22, 2025 and a yes again at final passage on July 3, 2025.
Hurd's April 2025 yes decided the budget resolution that green-lit up to $4.5 trillion in tax cuts financed by borrowing, and a year later, in April 2026, he cast a yes for a House resolution hailing the law as tax relief for working families. The budget office's updated estimate adds $4.7 trillion to the national debt through 2035, and Colorado alone gives up $12.4 billion in federal Medicaid money across the decade.
Jeff Hurd's Votes on the Tax Law and the Deficit
- Hurd Voted for the House Version and the Final Tax Law That Hands the Richest Tenth $13,600 Yearly and Takes $1,200 From the Poorest. H.R. 1's House version won 215 to 214, one member present, on May 22, 2025, so every yes vote, Hurd's included, was indispensable; the final version won 218 to 214 on July 3, 2025, with Hurd again in favor. Thomson Reuters Checkpoint, summarizing the Congressional Budget Office's analysis, reports that under the law "the top decile will receive a windfall of $13,600 every year," while "the lowest-income earners will lose an average $1,200 in overall household resources," largely because of the Medicaid and SNAP cuts.
- Hurd Cast the Deciding Vote for a Budget Plan Allowing $4.5 Trillion in Borrowed Tax Cuts. April 10, 2025 brought the final H.Con.Res. 14 to a 216 to 214 vote, Hurd voting yes; one vote from him the other way would have tied and sunk it. Its tax instruction let Ways and Means "increase the deficit by not more than $4,500,000,000,000" over fiscal years 2025 through 2034. The Senate's version, the one enacted, carries a higher ten-year price tag than the House's, the Yale Budget Lab calculated, and the law will, per CRFB's recap of the budget office's dynamic score, "boost interest rates and thus increase interest costs by $405 billion."
- In April 2026, Hurd Voted for a Resolution Claiming 15 Percent Tax Relief for Low Earners, Though the Poorest Fifth's Taxes Rise. H.Res. 1156 passed 219 to 207 on April 16, 2026 with Hurd voting aye; it dubs the law the "Working Families Tax Cuts" and asserts it "will result in a 15 percent tax cut for Americans whose income is in the bottom 40 percent," a number that tallies tax provisions and ignores what the law takes from Medicaid and SNAP. 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," whereas the top one percent average more than $70,000 in tax savings this year.
What the Tax Law Jeff Hurd Voted For Costs Colorado Households
- Colorado forfeits $12.4 billion in federal Medicaid dollars, part of how the tax cuts are paid for. KFF's state-level breakdown of the Congressional Budget Office's Medicaid estimate assigns Colorado a $12.4 billion loss over ten years, 14% of its expected federal Medicaid funding; those dollars would have covered hospital stays, nursing-home beds and checkups.
- Energy Innovation's projection: the average Colorado household could spend about $310 more each year on energy by 2035. Energy Innovation projected, in figures CNBC published, that the law's energy changes could push the typical Colorado household's energy spending up by about $310 a year by 2035, eating into whatever that household saved on taxes.
- 39,000 children in Colorado's 3rd District get less than the full child tax credit the resolution praised. Columbia's Center on Poverty and Social Policy estimates that 39,000 children in Colorado's 3rd District, 29%, get a partial child tax credit or none under the law because their parents earn too little, the families the "Working Families Tax Cuts" label leaves behind.
Frequently Asked Questions About Jeff Hurd on Taxes and the deficit
What is Jeff Hurd's record on taxes and the deficit under Trump?
Jeff Hurd's votes decided both the budget plan for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and its House passage; he voted for the final law and, in April 2026, for a resolution celebrating it. The law's benefits flow mostly to the top of the income scale, the Congressional Budget Office found, and it piles trillions onto the national debt.
Which households get the largest share of the tax cuts Jeff Hurd voted for?
The richest fifth: looking at 2026 under the law Jeff Hurd voted for, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy projects that "More than 70 percent of the net tax cuts will go to the richest fifth of Americans in 2026," and less than 1 percent goes to the poorest fifth.
What will interest on the national debt cost after the law Jeff Hurd voted for?
Interest payments more than double: in its write-up of the Congressional Budget Office's February 2026 outlook, which folds in the law Jeff Hurd voted for and other changes, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says "Nominal interest costs will more than double from $970 billion in 2025 to $2.1 trillion by 2036."
Last updated: 2026-10-27