Coloradans on Medicaid stand to lose $12.4 billion in federal funding across a decade under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as KFF divides the cut, and the law exists in part because Lauren Boebert, who holds Colorado's 4th District seat, gave the House bill one of its 215 yeas against 214 nays on May 22, 2025, then voted for the final version on July 3, 2025.
Her yea also tipped both 2025 budget resolutions, whose instructions demanded $880 billion or more in savings from the Medicaid committee and $230 billion or more from the SNAP committee, the April rule that brought the final budget plan up, and two July 2 roll calls that opened debate on the final version. A 2026 resolution lauding the law got her yea too, and by KFF's projection the law leaves Colorado with 150,000 more uninsured residents in 2034.
Lauren Boebert's House Votes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, From Budget Plan to Final Law
- Coloradans on Medicaid and SNAP Were First Reached by Boebert's Deciding Vote for the House Budget Plan, in February 2025. February 25, 2025 brought three Lauren Boebert yeas: one to cut off amendments and order the previous question on H.Res. 161, the resolution setting House floor terms for the budget plan; one adopting H.Res. 161; and one for H.Con.Res. 14, which carried 217 to 215, close enough that her nay alone would have left it tied, and a tie fails. Under that plan, Energy and Commerce, the Medicaid committee, had to "reduce the deficit by not less than $880,000,000,000" across ten years, Agriculture, the SNAP committee, had to find at least $230 billion in savings, and Ways and Means could write tax changes adding as much as $4.5 trillion to deficits.
- Boebert's Yeas Decided the Rule and the Final Budget Plan Behind Colorado's Medicaid Cut, in April 2025. Boebert's first yea on April 9, 2025 moved H.Res. 313 to a vote by ordering the previous question; that rule teed up the Senate-amended budget plan, and her second helped adopt that rule by 216 to 215; on April 10 her yea helped the House accept the Senate version by 216 to 214. Had she switched alone, the rule would have lost and the resolution would have tied, which also fails. The Senate version left the House committee instructions in place, and the final law she voted for on July 3, 2025 reduces federal Medicaid spending by $911 billion over a decade, by KFF's reading of Congressional Budget Office numbers.
- Coloradans Got a House Bill That Passed by One Vote, Boebert's Among the 215, in May 2025. May 22, 2025 brought six Boebert roll calls tied to H.R. 1. Her yeas carried both questions of consideration on H.Res. 436, which set floor terms for H.R. 1, by 217 to 211 and 216 to 211, ordered the previous question by 213 to 211, and adopted H.Res. 436 by 217 to 212; her nay went against the motion to recommit, which the House rejected 212 to 216; on passage her yea was one of 215 against 214, with one member voting present. Her switch alone would have sunk passage and left the previous question tied, which fails too. Once the Senate had rewritten it, the measure became law, and its Medicaid provisions on their own leave 7.5 million more Americans uninsured in 2034, a Congressional Budget Office figure KFF reports; it also barred Planned Parenthood from Medicaid payments for a "1-year period".
- Boebert's Yeas Decided Two Votes That Brought Up the Final Law, Then She Voted for It, in July 2025. Two July 2, 2025 roll calls brought the Senate's version to the floor, and each needed Boebert's yea: consideration of H.Res. 566, which won 212 to 211, and the previous question, which won 214 to 212. She voted for the Foxx amendment to that rule, and on July 3 voted aye on the amended rule and on concurring in the Senate amendment, the vote that cleared the law, 218 to 214; it was signed as Public Law 119-21 on July 4, 2025. Its full toll includes 10 million additional uninsured Americans in 2034, per the Congressional Budget Office estimate KFF cites, and in CBPP's words, "The megabill cuts SNAP by $187 billion or about 20 percent by 2034."
- The Poorest Fifth of Americans Were Left Out of the Tax Cut Boebert Voted to Celebrate in April 2026. Boebert's yea on April 16, 2026 helped pass H.Res. 1156, 219 to 207, a resolution that dubs the law the "Working Families Tax Cuts" and states that it "will result in a 15 percent tax cut for Americans whose income is in the bottom 40 percent." ITEP's 2026 analysis says "For the poorest fifth of Americans, the average tax change from OBBBA is a small tax increase," set against an average cut above $70,000 for the top 1 percent.
Who in Colorado Pays for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Lauren Boebert Voted For, Topic by Topic
- 108,600 Medicaid enrollees in Boebert's district rely on a program losing $12.4 billion in Colorado. Medicaid covered 108,600 people in Colorado's 4th District in 2025, 14% of residents, and Colorado forfeits $12.4 billion in federal Medicaid dollars across the decade under KFF's allocation, a 14% bite out of what the state expected. Lauren Boebert's health care page has her votes on the cut.
- 150,000 more Coloradans will be uninsured in 2034. By 2034 the law on its own adds 150,000 Coloradans to the ranks of the uninsured, two percentage points, in KFF's projection. Who bears those losses is the subject of Lauren Boebert's homelessness and poverty page.
- Rural Colorado loses $1.66 billion in Medicaid money and its hospital tax is set to shrink. Rural Colorado's federal Medicaid money drops by $1.66 billion over a decade, KFF estimates, and KFF also expects Colorado's hospital provider tax to shrink. The hospital effects are on Lauren Boebert's health care page.
- Coloradans between 55 and 64, and parents of teens, could lose SNAP. In a typical month, CBPP's June 2025 figures for the Senate Agriculture Committee's version of the law's work rules show 23,000 Coloradans from 55 through 64 and 15,000 Colorado parents with no child under 14 at risk of losing SNAP; her votes on the cut are on Lauren Boebert's food assistance page.
- Colorado's 1,036,586 Medicare enrollees count on a hospital fund the law runs down sooner. KFF tallies 1,036,586 Coloradans on Medicare in 2024; the law brings the hospital trust fund's depletion forward by a quarter and takes Medicare away from some lawfully present immigrants, and Lauren Boebert's Medicare page covers both.
- Most of Colorado's 14,959 nursing-home residents rely on Medicaid as the staffing standard is shelved. By KFF's figures, 63% of the 14,959 people in Colorado's certified nursing facilities have Medicaid as primary payer, while the law keeps the federal staffing standard unenforced until 2034; Lauren Boebert's elder care page has more.
- 9,100 people with disabilities on Medicaid in Boebert's district, and 2,749 Coloradans waiting for home care. In Colorado's 4th District, Medicaid enrollees include 9,100 people with disabilities, and statewide 2,749 Coloradans wait on Medicaid home care lists, KFF reports, with home care among the optional services first exposed to the law's cuts. Lauren Boebert's disability rights page has more.
- Most Colorado Medicaid adults with opioid use disorder fall under the new work rule. KFF's 2021 figures show 22,716 of Colorado's 27,256 Medicaid adults with opioid use disorder held expansion coverage, the coverage the work requirement will govern from 2027; Lauren Boebert's mental health and addiction page walks through who is exempt.
- 21,000 children in Boebert's district are below the child tax credit's maximum. The Columbia poverty center's district estimate puts 21,000 children in Colorado's 4th District, 13%, in families that earn too little for the whole credit; Lauren Boebert's child care and families page goes further.
- About 0.9 million Colorado beneficiaries face a $515 monthly cut on average once the retirement fund runs dry. Social Security paid 987,075 Coloradans in December 2024, and CRFB finds the cut at the retirement fund's exhaustion would reach about 0.9 million of them at $515 a month on average, a shortfall the law moves three months closer; the votes are on Lauren Boebert's Social Security page.
- Colorado borrowers pushed off SAVE owe $2,512 more each year. A Colorado borrower moved from SAVE into the Repayment Assistance Plan pays $2,512 more a year on average, according to Center for American Progress estimates; Lauren Boebert's student debt page has the details.
- Colorado veterans of working age who use SNAP no longer have a time-limit exemption. CBPP puts the 2021-2023 average at 24,000 Colorado veterans whose households drew SNAP, and the law strips veterans of the time-limit exemption they had in SNAP; Lauren Boebert's veterans page explains what they must do now.
- Colorado households could pay about $310 more a year in energy costs by 2035. The law's energy changes could add about $310 to the average Colorado household's yearly energy bills by 2035, an Energy Innovation projection published by CNBC shows.
Frequently Asked Questions About Lauren Boebert on One Big Beautiful Bill
What is Lauren Boebert's record on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act under Trump?
Lauren Boebert said yea to the budget resolutions that launched the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, to the rules that brought it up, to its House passage and to its final passage on July 3, 2025; her yeas decided both 2025 budget resolutions, the House's one-vote passage on May 22, 2025 and two July 2 procedural roll calls. KFF's state split of the law's Medicaid cut assigns Colorado $12.4 billion over ten years. She also voted in April 2026 for a resolution praising its tax policies.
How many times did Lauren Boebert's vote decide the Big Beautiful Bill in the House?
Lauren Boebert's yea was decisive on seven roll calls: the February 25, 2025 budget resolution, 217 to 215; the rule of April 9, 216 to 215; the final budget resolution of April 10, 216 to 214; the May 22 previous question, 213 to 211; May 22 House passage, 215 to 214; and two on July 2, consideration of the final rule at 212 to 211 and its previous question at 214 to 212. The July 3 final passage vote was 218 to 214.
Who on the eastern plains feels the Big Beautiful Bill that got Lauren Boebert's vote?
In Colorado's 4th District, which Lauren Boebert represents, the law she voted for reaches the 108,600 people on Medicaid in 2025, the 21,000 children too low-income for the full child tax credit, and the 128,767 people who received Social Security in December 2024. Each group is affected through the law's Medicaid cuts, its credit rules or its added Social Security costs.
When do the cuts Lauren Boebert voted for start reaching Colorado?
Under the law Lauren Boebert voted for, Colorado pays 75 percent of SNAP's administrative costs starting in fiscal 2027, must start the Medicaid work requirement "no later than January 1, 2027," and, as an expansion state, sees its limit on provider taxes fall by half a percentage point a year starting October 1, 2027. Under the timeline in CMS's proposed rule, lawfully present immigrants in the grace-period group would lose Medicare on February 1, 2027.
Last updated: 2026-10-27