On July 3, 2025, Richard Hudson cast a yes for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's final text, and with it a child tax credit that about 52,000 children in North Carolina's 9th District cannot fully collect, since their parents' earnings fall below what the credit requires, according to Columbia University's Center on Poverty and Social Policy. On April 16, 2026, he joined the House majority applauding the law for moves to "permanently expand the child tax credit."
His May 22, 2025 vote, needed for the bill's 215-to-214 House passage, came first. The same law expanded the child and dependent care credit but kept it nonrefundable, so the families with the smallest paychecks gain nothing from it.
Richard Hudson's Votes on the Child Tax Credit and Child Care Credit
- Hudson Approved a Child Tax Credit That Leaves More Than One in Four Children Short, Then Voted to Praise It in 2026. Richard Hudson was a yes on May 22, 2025, when the House version passed 215 to 214, and on July 3, 2025, when the final law passed 218 to 214. On April 16, 2026, he also voted for H.Res. 1156, which credited the law because it would "permanently expand the child tax credit." Because the credit still phases in with earnings, "more than 1 in 4 children (28%) under age 17 will be ineligible for the full Child Tax Credit," the Columbia poverty center estimates; the full amount for two kids requires a two-parent household income of no less than $41,500. A separate rule "strips the Child Tax Credit from the approximately 2.6 million or more children" who have no parent on the return with a work-eligible Social Security number, the National Immigration Law Center found.
- Hudson Approved a Child Care Credit That Skips Families Earning Under $30,000. Hudson's July 3, 2025 vote also enlarged the child and dependent care tax credit while leaving it nonrefundable, which means it can only reduce taxes a family owes, not pay out beyond them. Once the change applies in 2026, "families making less than $30,000 won't benefit at all," the National Women's Law Center found; per Tax Policy Center numbers it cites, a bigger credit reaches just 8.5 percent of families with children, while almost 80 percent of the benefit goes to families in the middle and upper parts of the income scale.
What Richard Hudson's Votes Mean for Children in North Carolina's 9th District and Statewide
- About 52,000 children in Hudson's district fall below the credit's earnings line. In North Carolina's 9th District, 31% of children are in households earning too little for the whole credit under the final law, the Columbia researchers calculate. The children left short are in the lowest-earning families, which get a partial credit or none at all.
- 670,000 North Carolina children are shut out of the full credit, more than before the law. Across North Carolina the count is 670,000 children, or 31%, compared with 27% before the law changed the credit, so the poorest families' gap grew.
- 89,800 children in Hudson's district get health care through the Medicaid program the law cuts. Medicaid covered 89,800 children in North Carolina's 9th District in 2025, KFF's district data show, and the law cuts $22.5 billion in federal Medicaid funding from North Carolina over ten years, the money that pays for their checkups and prescriptions.
- North Carolina parents of children 14 and older lost their SNAP exemption. Under the law, North Carolina's SNAP exemption for adults living with a child now applies only when the child is under 14, the state health department says, and CBPP estimated in June 2025, for the Senate Agriculture Committee's proposal with that same change, that 43,000 North Carolina parents whose youngest child is 14 or older stood to lose food aid.
Frequently Asked Questions About Richard Hudson on Child care and families
What is Richard Hudson's record on child care and families under Trump?
Richard Hudson cast a deciding vote for the House version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on May 22, 2025, voted for the final law on July 3, and on April 16, 2026 voted for a resolution praising its child tax credit. Columbia's poverty center estimates the credit leaves out about 52,000 children in his district because their families earn too little, and the law's child care credit gives nothing to families under $30,000.
When will North Carolina families see the child care credit change Richard Hudson voted for?
The child and dependent care credit changes in the law Richard Hudson voted for apply starting in 2026, the National Women's Law Center notes, for North Carolina families as everywhere else. Because the credit stays nonrefundable, nationally, NWLC says, families earning under $30,000 get no benefit, and the average family that does gain gets $890.
When did North Carolina parents of teenagers start facing SNAP time limits under the law Richard Hudson voted for?
On December 1, 2025, North Carolina began applying the law Richard Hudson voted for, under which the SNAP exemption for living with a child covers only children under 14, the state health department says. A parent whose youngest is 14 or older now has to log 80 hours a month of work or training to keep benefits past three months.
Last updated: 2026-10-27