Maria Elvira Salazar, a Republican, is the U.S. representative for Florida's 27th District, took the seat on January 3, 2021, and her name appears on the November 3, 2026 general election ballot. When the One Big Beautiful Bill Act first came to a House vote on May 22, 2025, it won 215 to 214, her yes included; on July 3, 2025 she voted for the version that became law, which by KFF's allocation strips Florida of $13.6 billion in federal Medicaid money in its first decade.
About Maria Elvira Salazar
- Full name
- Maria Elvira Salazar, Republican; her Clerk of the House profile reads "Florida (FL), 27th, Republican"
- Current role
- Serves Florida's 27th District in the House of Representatives, and her committees are Financial Services and Foreign Affairs
- In office since
- Has represented the district, Florida's 27th, since January 3, 2021
- Seeking
- Another term in the seat she has held since 2021, with voters deciding on November 3, 2026
- Key votes
- Yes votes for the H.Con.Res. 14 budget resolution on February 25, 2025, for H.R. 1 on May 22, 2025 and again on July 3, 2025, and for H.Res. 1156, a tribute to the law's tax provisions, on April 16, 2026
What Maria Elvira Salazar Is Responsible For
- Medicaid. Maria Elvira Salazar's vote was the margin in the House, and she voted for the final text, under which Florida's federal Medicaid dollars drop $13.6 billion over a decade; 153,100 people in Florida's 27th District, nearly a fifth of residents, are on Medicaid.
- Coverage for refugees and asylees. Starting October 1, 2026, the law Salazar voted for removes refugees and asylees from Medicaid's list of eligible immigrants, and for tax years after 2026 it denies them marketplace premium credits; statewide, KFF projects 590,000 additional uninsured Floridians in 2034.
- Hospitals and rural health. Her decisive budget resolution votes set the $880 billion savings target for Energy and Commerce, the committee over Medicaid, and the law she voted for on July 3, 2025 puts a ceiling on the hospital payments states direct, above which KFF finds roughly $394 million a year of Florida's federal hospital funding; rural Florida's federal Medicaid money shrinks about $613 million over ten years.
- Food assistance. In the law that drew Salazar's vote, SNAP is cut $187 billion through 2034 and its time limit broadened. For a Senate Agriculture Committee version with that same reach, CBPP's June 2025 estimate put 113,000 Floridians aged 55 to 64, plus 51,000 parents of teens, at risk; Florida's participation slid by 22.1% in the year to July 2026.
- Medicare. Salazar voted for the first law to take Medicare away from people who already qualified: refugees, asylees and others lawfully present without green cards, with the first terminations dated February 1, 2027 under CMS's proposed timeline, in a state with 5,133,537 people on Medicare.
- Nursing homes. Under the law Salazar voted for, no one can enforce the federal nursing-home staffing standard before September 30, 2034, and in Florida Medicaid pays first for 58% of nursing-facility residents.
- Social Security. By trimming the income tax on benefits, the law Salazar voted for in July 2025 costs Social Security $168.6 billion through 2034 and hastens an insolvency cut worth $496 a month off the average check for Florida's 4.6 million beneficiaries.
- Child tax credit. The child tax credit Salazar voted for still phases in with earnings, so 29,000 children in Florida's 27th District (23%) collect less than the full amount, Columbia University researchers estimate.
- Student loans. The Repayment Assistance Plan became law through her July 3, 2025 vote for the final bill, after her May 2025 vote, which the House version needed; the average Florida borrower moved off SAVE onto that plan owes $1,559 more each year.
- Taxes. The Congressional Budget Office's household tally for the law Salazar voted for shows the top tenth $13,600 a year ahead and the bottom $1,200 behind; she later voted for H.Res. 1156, which labels it the "Working Families Tax Cuts."
- Florida's state budget. Florida must find $50 million more for SNAP administration and, in fiscal 2028, could owe a benefit share that CBPP's table, using the state's 2025 error rate, puts near $900 million, under the law Salazar voted for.
- Energy bills. In Energy Innovation's projection, the energy provisions Salazar voted for could lift the average Florida household's energy bill by $430 a year by 2035.
- Jobs. Under the same energy provisions, Energy Innovation projects, "Workers suffer 760,000 lost jobs by 2030"; Salazar's yes on July 3, 2025 helped make them law.
- Planned Parenthood. The law Salazar voted for stopped Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood for a "1-year period", and the organization says nearly 30 health centers shut their doors in that year.
- Immigration enforcement money. With her decisive May vote and her July yes, Salazar voted for a law that "directs $170.7 billion toward immigration and border enforcement"; NPR reported in March 2026 that "nearly 70,000 people are in ICE detention, the highest number in several years".
- The consumer bureau. Through section 30001, the law Salazar voted for lowers the funding ceiling for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 12% to 6.5% of its Federal Reserve benchmark; for fiscal 2025, CRS puts the new cap near $446 million, down from $823 million.
How This Page on Maria Elvira Salazar Is Sourced
Votes link to the Clerk of the House roll call for each one; one example is House passage of H.R. 1 on May 22, 2025. Florida and 27th District numbers link to where they come from, such as KFF's state Medicaid allocation and the Social Security Administration's congressional district statistics, and national figures link to the Congressional Budget Office, KFF, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other researchers. This page was last updated on October 27, 2026, from the House roll calls and sources above.
Frequently Asked Questions About Maria Elvira Salazar
What is Maria Elvira Salazar's record under Trump?
Under Trump, Maria Elvira Salazar supplied the deciding vote when the One Big Beautiful Bill Act cleared the House 215 to 214, was decisive on both 2025 budget resolutions, then voted for the final law; KFF's math has Florida forfeiting $13.6 billion in federal Medicaid funds over ten years. That law also trims SNAP by $187 billion, ends Medicare for refugees and asylees, and raises Social Security's costs $168.6 billion. Nine months after it was signed, in April 2026, she added her yes to a resolution praising its tax provisions.
Would the House have passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act if Maria Elvira Salazar had voted no?
Not in May 2025: Maria Elvira Salazar was one of the 215 in a 215-to-214 vote on May 22, 2025, with one member voting present, so the bill could not have passed without her. Had she alone switched, the February and April 2025 budget resolutions would have been left tied, and a tie fails, and two July 2 roll calls that took up the final version would have gone down; final passage carried 218 to 214.
What does Florida's Medicaid program lose because of Maria Elvira Salazar's vote?
KFF divides the Congressional Budget Office's estimate by state, and for the law Maria Elvira Salazar voted for, Florida's share is $13.6 billion in lost federal Medicaid funding over ten years, 5% of what it expected. In Florida's 27th District, 153,100 residents were on Medicaid in 2025.
What does Maria Elvira Salazar's vote mean for refugees and asylees in Miami-Dade?
Under the law Maria Elvira Salazar voted for, Medicare ends for refugees and asylees who never obtained green cards, the first group on February 1, 2027 under CMS's proposed timeline; they fall outside Medicaid's eligible categories as of October 1, 2026; and for tax years after 2026, they lose marketplace premium tax credits. On SNAP, Florida's Department of Children and Families estimated about 9,753 lawfully present immigrants in the state lost eligibility.
Did Maria Elvira Salazar vote to cut SNAP?
Yes: Maria Elvira Salazar voted for the House version and then for the final law, whose SNAP cut of $187 billion through 2034 comes with a three-month rule widened to adults through age 64 and parents of teens and the end of the exemption veterans had; her February 2025 budget vote set a $230 billion target for the committee that writes SNAP law. Florida's SNAP caseload fell from 2,849,239 to 2,219,639 between July 2025 and July 2026.
Which 2026 resolution praising the law did Maria Elvira Salazar vote for?
It was H.Res. 1156: on April 16, 2026 Maria Elvira Salazar cast a yes for a resolution that dubs the law the "Working Families Tax Cuts" and says it "will result in a 15 percent tax cut for Americans whose income is in the bottom 40 percent." Yet by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy's count, the bottom fifth of Americans get a small tax increase on average from the law.
Last updated: 2026-10-27