Columbia University estimates that 22,000 children in New York's 1st District, 15% of them, get only part of the child tax credit in the law Nick LaLota voted for. His aye on July 3, 2025 went to the final law, after a May yea the House bill needed. On April 16, 2026, he voted for a resolution hailing the credit.
The law's bigger child care tax credit cannot be refunded. Below $30,000 of income, a family sees none of it, by the National Women's Law Center's analysis.
Nick LaLota's Votes on the Child Tax Credit and Child Care Credit
- LaLota Voted for a Child Tax Credit That Leaves Over a Quarter of Children Short of the Full Amount. Nick LaLota's aye on July 3, 2025 was one of 218, against 214, for the final One Big Beautiful Bill Act. His May 22 yea came in the House's one-vote first passage, 215 to 214. Nine months later, H.Res. 1156 drew LaLota's yea on April 16, 2026. That resolution applauded the law for steps that "permanently expand the child tax credit." Phase-in rules tied to earnings stay in the credit. Columbia's poverty center estimates "more than 1 in 4 children (28%) under age 17 will be ineligible for the full Child Tax Credit." Two parents with two children need at least $41,500 of earnings for the whole credit. A Social Security number rule, says the National Immigration Law Center, "strips the Child Tax Credit from the approximately 2.6 million or more children" nationwide.
- LaLota Voted for a Child Care Credit That Skips Families Under $30,000. The law LaLota voted for raises the child and dependent care tax credit. It leaves the credit nonrefundable. Owe little or no income tax, and the credit returns little or nothing. From 2026 on, "families making less than $30,000 won't benefit at all," in the National Women's Law Center's words. Only about 8.5 percent of families raising children get a bigger credit, by an analysis the law center cites. Middle- and high-income households collect close to 80 percent of the money.
Which New York Families Miss Out Under Nick LaLota's Votes
- In New York's 1st District, 22,000 children fall short of the full credit. Columbia's district estimates put 15% of children in New York's 1st District, 22,000 in all, below the full credit once the final law applies. Their parents earn too little to qualify for all of it. The families who most need the money get the least.
- 38,400 children in New York's 1st District are on the Medicaid the law cuts. KFF's 2025 table lists 38,400 children with Medicaid in New York's 1st District. Federal Medicaid dollars help pay for their checkups and sick visits. New York loses $102.2 billion of those dollars over ten years.
- Exposed to SNAP losses in CBPP's June 2025 count: 80,000 New York parents of teens. Parents whose youngest is 14 or older now fall under SNAP's work rule, and CBPP's June 2025 estimate for the Senate Agriculture Committee's proposal, which made that same change, found 80,000 such New Yorkers at risk. Counting their households, 159,000 people could lose some food aid. A cut to SNAP is a cut to the family's grocery money.
Frequently Asked Questions About Nick LaLota on Child care and families
What is Nick LaLota's record on child care and families under Trump?
Both times the House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in 2025, Nick LaLota voted yes, and in 2026 a resolution praising its child tax credit got his vote too. Columbia researchers find the credit falls short for 22,000 children in his district. Families earning under $30,000 get no help from the law's child care credit.
Did Nick LaLota vote to praise the Big Beautiful Bill's child tax credit?
Yes. Nick LaLota was among the 219 yeas, to 207 nays, for H.Res. 1156 on April 16, 2026. The resolution credited the law with moves to "permanently expand the child tax credit." Even so, 22,000 children in his New York district miss the full amount.
Can a Long Island child lose the tax credit over a parent's immigration status because of Nick LaLota's vote?
Yes: Nick LaLota voted for a law that denies the credit unless a parent on the tax return holds a work-eligible Social Security number. Nationwide, NILC counts about 2.6 million or more children cut off this way. For married filers, one spouse with such a number is enough.
Last updated: 2026-10-27