Mike Lawler, the House member for New York's 17th District, supplied one of the 215 votes that passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act over 214 on May 22, 2025, and voted for the final law on July 3, a law KFF estimates will cut New York's federal Medicaid funding by $102.2 billion over ten years.
Lawler also cast deciding votes for both versions of the 2025 budget resolution, which ordered at least $880 billion in savings from Energy and Commerce, Medicaid's committee, and $230 billion from Agriculture, SNAP's, voted for the rules that put the resolution and the bill before the House, and voted in April 2026 for a resolution praising the law. KFF projects the law will leave 860,000 more New Yorkers uninsured in 2034.
Mike Lawler's House Votes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Stage by Stage
- Lawler's Deciding Vote Adopted the House Budget Plan Ordering $880 Billion From Medicaid's Committee and $230 Billion From SNAP's, in February 2025. Mike Lawler's three yes votes on February 25, 2025 moved the House budget resolution forward: ordering the previous question on H.Res. 161, which set the terms of debate; adopting that rule; and adopting H.Con.Res. 14 itself, 217 to 215, a margin that a switch by him alone would have turned into a tie, which fails. Its instructions: at least $880 billion in deficit reduction from the Energy and Commerce Committee, which has Medicaid; at least $230 billion from the Agriculture Committee, which has SNAP; and room for the Ways and Means Committee to raise deficits by as much as $4.5 trillion.
- Lawler Supplied Deciding Votes for the Rule and the Final Budget Resolution, in April 2025. On April 9, 2025, Lawler was a yes on the previous question for H.Res. 313, the rule taking up the Senate-amended budget resolution, and a yes on the rule itself, adopted 216 to 215; the next day his yes helped the House concur in the Senate version, adopted 216 to 214. His switch alone would have changed the outcome of the rule or the resolution. The final version kept the House committees' instructions, among them the $880 billion floor for Energy and Commerce, the committee that writes Medicaid law.
- The House Bill Passed by One Vote, With Lawler's Among the 215, in May 2025. Lawler cast six votes on H.R. 1 on May 22, 2025. He voted to take up its rule, H.Res. 436, on two questions of consideration (217 to 211 and 216 to 211), voted to order the previous question on it (213 to 211), and voted for the rule (217 to 212). The motion to recommit, which he voted against, failed 212 to 216. On passage he was one of 215 yes votes against 214, with one member voting present; without him, both the previous question and the bill would have failed. After the Senate rewrote it, the bill became a law whose Medicaid provisions by themselves leave 7.5 million more people uninsured in 2034, a Congressional Budget Office projection carried by KFF, and that halted Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood for a "1-year period".
- Lawler Cast Deciding Votes to Take Up the Final Version and Then Voted for the Law, in July 2025. Two July 2, 2025 votes put the Senate's version before the House, and Lawler's yes was needed on both: the question of consideration for H.Res. 566, adopted 212 to 211, and the motion ordering the previous question, adopted 214 to 212. He then voted for the Foxx amendment to the rule and, on July 3, the amended rule and the concurrence motion that served as final passage, which carried 218 to 214; the bill became Public Law 119-21 on July 4, 2025. The law's toll, by the Congressional Budget Office's count as KFF reports it, is 10 million more uninsured people in 2034, and its SNAP cut comes to $187 billion through 2034, about a fifth of the program, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found.
- Lawler Supplied a Vote for a 2026 Resolution Hailing the Law as a Working-Family Tax Cut. Lawler cast a yes for H.Res. 1156 on April 16, 2026, and it was adopted 219 to 207; the resolution labels 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." By the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy's count, "For the poorest fifth of Americans, the average tax change from OBBBA is a small tax increase" in 2026, while the top 1 percent see average tax cuts above $70,000.
What the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Costs New York, Topic by Topic, After Mike Lawler's Votes
- New York loses $102.2 billion in federal Medicaid money. KFF's split of the Congressional Budget Office estimate takes $102.2 billion in federal Medicaid funding from New York over ten years, 16% of the state's expected federal share, which pays for hospital stays, nursing care and checkups. Mike Lawler's health care page has the votes.
- New York hospitals face $2.43 billion a year in payments above the law's limits, and rural areas lose $5.67 billion. KFF estimates about $2.43 billion a year in federal spending on New York hospital services exceeds the law's new limits, and over ten years rural New York gives up $5.67 billion in federal Medicaid money. More on the hospital cuts is on Mike Lawler's health care page.
- 860,000 more New Yorkers will be uninsured in 2034. KFF projects the law alone adds 860,000 New Yorkers to the uninsured in 2034, a 4-point rise in the state's uninsured rate, while the top tenth of households nationally gains about $13,600 a year. Lawler's tax votes are on his taxes and deficit page.
- 80,500 children in Lawler's district rely on the Medicaid program the law cuts. Medicaid covered 80,500 children and 49,900 expansion adults in New York's 17th District in 2025, out of 222,200 enrollees, KFF counts; what the cuts mean for low-income families is on Mike Lawler's poverty and homelessness page.
- CBPP's June 2025 math: 125,000 older New Yorkers and 80,000 parents at risk of losing SNAP. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated in June 2025 that a Senate Agriculture Committee plan with the work rules the law adopted would put 125,000 New Yorkers ages 55 to 64 and 80,000 parents whose youngest child is 14 or older at risk of losing SNAP each month; see Mike Lawler's food assistance votes.
- 3.9 million New Yorkers on Medicare depend on a hospital fund the law drains. New York had 3,912,348 Medicare enrollees in 2024; mainly because of the law, the hospital trust fund is now expected to run dry in the second quarter of 2033, a quarter ahead of the prior forecast, and the law also ends Medicare for some lawfully present immigrants. Lawler's Medicare page covers both.
- Medicaid pays for 65% of New York's 99,192 nursing-home residents. Medicaid is the primary payer for 65% of the 99,192 residents of New York's certified nursing facilities, and the law blocks the federal staffing standard until 2034; Mike Lawler's elder care page has the details.
- 12,200 people with disabilities in Lawler's district rely on Medicaid. KFF counts 12,200 people with disabilities among Medicaid enrollees in New York's 17th District in 2025, and the law's work rule reaches disabled adults in the expansion group who fall outside its listed exemptions. The record is on Mike Lawler's disability rights page.
- Two-thirds of New York Medicaid adults with opioid use disorder are in the group the work rule reaches. Of 116,380 New York Medicaid adults with opioid use disorder in 2021, 77,687 were covered through the expansion, the group the law's work requirement applies to; Mike Lawler's mental health and addiction page explains the exemptions.
- 47,000 children in Lawler's district miss the full child tax credit. By the Columbia poverty center's estimate, 47,000 children in New York's 17th District, 26% of them, are too low-income for the full credit under the law. Mike Lawler's child care and families page has more.
- New York's 3.84 million Social Security beneficiaries face a fund the law weakens by $168.6 billion. The program's chief actuary puts the law's added net cost at $168.6 billion through 2034, and 3,838,030 New Yorkers received benefits in December 2024; Mike Lawler's Social Security page has the votes.
- New York student borrowers moved off SAVE pay $2,483 more a year. The Center for American Progress estimates New York borrowers shifted from SAVE to the law's Repayment Assistance Plan pay $2,483 more a year on average; see Mike Lawler's student debt votes.
- New York veterans ages 18 to 64 on SNAP lost their exemption from the time limit. An average of 56,000 New York veterans lived in households receiving SNAP in 2021 through 2023, and under the law veterans lost their exemption from SNAP's three-month time limit: those 18 through 64 who lack a disability or any other exemption must now meet the work rule; Mike Lawler's veterans page has the rest.
- Energy bills for New York households could climb about $170 a year by 2035. By 2035 the law's energy provisions could push the typical New York household's yearly energy spending up by about $170, according to an Energy Innovation projection reported by CNBC.
Frequently Asked Questions About Mike Lawler on One Big Beautiful Bill
What is Mike Lawler's record on the Big Beautiful Bill under Trump?
Mike Lawler voted for both versions of the 2025 budget resolution, the May 22 House bill and the July 3 final One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and his vote decided the first three, the House bill passing 215 to 214. KFF estimates the final law takes $102.2 billion in federal Medicaid money from New York over a decade and leaves 860,000 more New Yorkers uninsured in 2034. In April 2026 he voted for a resolution praising the law.
Was Mike Lawler's vote needed to pass the Big Beautiful Bill in the House?
On May 22, 2025, yes: Mike Lawler was one of the 215 members who voted for the House version, which passed 215 to 214, so a no from him would have defeated it. His July 2, 2025 votes were needed too: taking up the rule for the final version, adopted 212 to 211, and the previous-question motion, adopted 214 to 212; final passage on July 3 was 218 to 214.
When do the cuts in the law Mike Lawler voted for reach New York?
The law Mike Lawler voted for phases in: New York has paid 75 percent of SNAP's administrative costs since fiscal year 2027 began on October 1, 2026; the Medicaid work requirement must start no later than January 1, 2027, alongside six-month eligibility checks for expansion adults; Medicare coverage ends on February 1, 2027 for the lawfully present immigrants already identified, under CMS's proposed timeline; hospital payment rates start falling in at least 37 states on January 1, 2028; and states with high payment error rates could owe up to 15 percent of SNAP benefits starting in fiscal year 2028.
Last updated: 2026-10-27