Some 21,000 kids in Colorado's 4th District have parents whose pay is too low to unlock the child tax credit's maximum under the law Lauren Boebert voted for on July 3, 2025, by the Columbia University poverty center's count; across the country the law leaves 28% of children under 17 below that maximum.
Boebert's yea in May 2025 had decided the bill's House passage, and nine months after the final vote she voted for H.Res. 1156, adopted April 16, 2026, which hailed the law for promising to "permanently expand the child tax credit." Low-income Colorado parents who pay for child care see none of the law's larger child and dependent care credit, because the credit stays nonrefundable.
Lauren Boebert's Votes on the Child Tax Credit and Help With Child Care Costs
- Kids in Lower-Earning Colorado Households Fall Below the Child Tax Credit's Maximum Under a Law Boebert Voted For and Later Hailed. Boebert cast one of the 215 yeas that moved the House version past 214 nays in May 2025, then voted yea on July 3, 2025 when the Senate-amended bill won final approval, 218 to 214. Her yea on April 16, 2026 helped adopt H.Res. 1156, a resolution lauding the law since it would "permanently expand the child tax credit." The law raised the top credit to $2,200 per child but kept the rules tying it to earnings, so "more than 1 in 4 children (28%) under age 17 will be ineligible for the full Child Tax Credit," the Columbia center estimates. A separate Social Security number requirement "strips the Child Tax Credit from the approximately 2.6 million or more children" who have no parent with a work-eligible number on the return, according to the National Immigration Law Center.
- Colorado Parents Earning Under $30,000 Receive Nothing From the Day-Care Credit in the Law Boebert Voted For. Under the law Boebert voted for, the credit for child and dependent care costs got bigger yet remained nonrefundable, so parents whose income tax bill is small or zero recover little or none of what they spend on day care. When the change takes effect in 2026, "families making less than $30,000 won't benefit at all," according to the National Women's Law Center. The center also reported that a larger credit reaches roughly 8.5 percent of households with children, and that families earning more than $66,000 collect almost 80 percent of the added value.
What Lauren Boebert's Child Tax Credit Vote Means for Children in Colorado's 4th District
- 21,000 children in Boebert's district are left short of the full child tax credit. The Columbia center's district estimate finds 21,000 children in Colorado's 4th District, 13% of the children there, in families that earn too little to claim the entire credit under the final law. Those are the households for which a full $2,200 per child would matter most, for rent, groceries and school costs.
- 43,500 children in Boebert's district get their health coverage from the Medicaid program the law cuts. Children made up 43,500 of Medicaid's enrollees in Colorado's 4th District in 2025, KFF counts, and the same law takes $12.4 billion in federal Medicaid money from Colorado over ten years. A child's checkups, vaccines and sick visits depend on that coverage staying in place.
Frequently Asked Questions About Lauren Boebert on Child care and families
What is Lauren Boebert's record on child care and families under Trump?
Lauren Boebert's July 3, 2025 yea, which followed her decisive May vote on the House version, helped enact the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: it leaves 28% of children nationally, 21,000 of them in Colorado's 4th District, below the child tax credit's maximum and gives families under $30,000 nothing from its day-care credit. In April 2026 Boebert also voted for a House resolution that celebrated the credit.
How much must an eastern plains family earn to receive the largest child tax credit under the law Lauren Boebert voted for?
Under the law Lauren Boebert voted for, a married couple raising two kids must bring in $41,500 or more to collect the whole credit, the Columbia center calculates. In Colorado's 4th District, 13% of children live in households earning less than what the maximum requires.
How much does the bigger child care credit Lauren Boebert voted for actually pay Colorado families?
Nationally, parents who qualify for the expanded credit in the law Lauren Boebert voted for get $890 on average, though on paper the credit can reach $3,000, by the National Women's Law Center's figures. Colorado parents earning under $30,000 receive nothing from it.
Last updated: 2026-10-27