The richest tenth of households come out $13,600 a year ahead under the tax law Nick LaLota voted for, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. The poorest tenth fall $1,200 behind. LaLota's May 22, 2025 yea was one of 215 against 214. He voted aye again on July 3.
A deciding LaLota budget vote in April 2025 let tax writers borrow as much as $4.5 trillion. A year later, he joined a resolution that branded the law the "Working Families Tax Cuts." New York pays part of the bill with a $102.2 billion Medicaid cut.
Nick LaLota's Votes on the Tax Law and Its Cost
- LaLota Voted for a Tax Law That Pays the Top Tenth $13,600 a Year. The May 22, 2025 House vote on H.R. 1 was 215 to 214, with one present; a single switch among the yeas, Nick LaLota's included, would have killed it. LaLota's aye on July 3, 2025 joined 217 others for final passage, against 214. Thomson Reuters, reporting the Congressional Budget Office's analysis, wrote that "the top decile will receive a windfall of $13,600 every year." It also wrote that "the lowest-income earners will lose an average $1,200 in overall household resources." Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP account for much of that loss.
- With LaLota's Deciding Budget Vote, Tax Writers Got Room for Up to $4.5 Trillion in Added Deficits. LaLota's yea helped the final budget resolution, H.Con.Res. 14, pass 216 to 214 on April 10, 2025. Had he flipped, it would have tied and died. The resolution permitted Ways and Means tax changes that "increase the deficit by not more than $4,500,000,000,000" over ten years. Yale's Budget Lab finds the Senate-passed bill, which LaLota voted for on July 3, 2025 and which became law, adds $3.0 trillion to the debt from 2025 to 2034. Through 2055, the figure is $12.1 trillion. CBO's dynamic score, CRFB reports, shows higher interest rates that "increase interest costs by $405 billion."
- LaLota Voted in 2026 to Call the Law a Working-Family Tax Cut. On April 16, 2026, LaLota was a yea on H.Res. 1156, adopted 219 to 207. It hailed the law as the "Working Families Tax Cuts." It also claims the law "will result in a 15 percent tax cut for Americans whose income is in the bottom 40 percent." The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy finds that "For the poorest fifth of Americans, the average tax change from OBBBA is a small tax increase." For the richest 1 percent, ITEP puts the average tax cut this year above $70,000.
Who Pays in New York for the Tax Law Nick LaLota Voted For
- 22,000 children in New York's 1st District miss the full child tax credit. The law's headline credit for families leaves out 22,000 children in New York's 1st District, 15%, from the full amount, Columbia researchers estimate. Their parents earn too little to claim it all.
- The tax cuts are paid for in part with $102.2 billion of New York's Medicaid money. KFF's allocation of the Medicaid cut charges New York $102.2 billion over ten years. That is 16% of the federal Medicaid money the state expected. KFF's range runs from $76.7 billion to $127.8 billion. The money paid for hospital care, nursing homes and doctor visits.
- KFF projects 860,000 more uninsured New Yorkers in 2034 while the top tenth gains. KFF projects 860,000 more uninsured New Yorkers in 2034 from the law alone. The coverage cuts that cause it help pay for the tax changes.
Frequently Asked Questions About Nick LaLota on Taxes and the deficit
What is Nick LaLota's record on taxes and the deficit under Trump?
Nick LaLota cast deciding votes for the 2025 budget plan and the House's May bill, then gave the final One Big Beautiful Bill Act an aye. CBO finds the richest tenth gain $13,600 a year under it. Yale's Budget Lab puts the added debt at $3.0 trillion through 2034. In 2026 LaLota cast a vote hailing the law as relief for working families.
Will the law Nick LaLota voted for raise the national debt?
Yes. Nick LaLota's deciding April 2025 vote opened the door to as much as $4.5 trillion in tax changes on the deficit. The final law he voted for adds $3.0 trillion to the debt over ten years, Yale's Budget Lab estimates. In CBO's dynamic score, CRFB reports, the rise in interest rates by itself adds $405 billion to interest costs.
Does the poorest fifth get a tax cut from the law Nick LaLota voted to praise in 2026?
No. Nick LaLota voted in April 2026 for a resolution saying Americans in the bottom 40 percent get a 15 percent cut in taxes. ITEP finds the poorest fifth see, on average, a small tax increase under the law. The richest 1 percent get more than $70,000 each this year.
Last updated: 2026-10-27