Richard Hudson cast a yes for the final One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 3, 2025, and the Congressional Budget Office's tally of who wins and who loses is lopsided: about $13,600 a year more for the richest tenth, a net loss for the bottom, driven by what the law strips from Medicaid and SNAP. Hudson's May 22 vote had been needed to get the bill through the House.
The path started on February 25, 2025, when Hudson's vote decided a budget resolution demanding at least $230 billion from the committee over SNAP and $880 billion from the committee over Medicaid. In North Carolina's 9th District, 31% of residents relied on Medicaid in 2025, and the state stopped exempting homeless people from SNAP's time limit on December 1, 2025.
Richard Hudson's Votes on Aid for the Lowest-Income Households
- Hudson Voted for a Law That Pays the Richest Tenth $13,600 a Year at the Expense of the Poorest. Richard Hudson was a needed yes on May 22, 2025, when the House passed H.R. 1 by 215 to 214, and a yes again on July 3, 2025, when the final version cleared 218 to 214. The Congressional Budget Office's distributional estimate has the richest tenth of households gaining roughly $13,600 a year under the law and the lowest-income households losing ground, mostly through the Medicaid and SNAP cuts; the SNAP cut alone is $187 billion through 2034, a record for the program, CBPP found.
- Hudson Decided the February 2025 Budget Vote That Set SNAP and Medicaid Savings Targets. Hudson's February 25, 2025 vote helped adopt H.Con.Res. 14 by 217 to 215, a result one switched vote from him would have turned into a tie, which fails. Its instructions demanded $230 billion or more from the Agriculture Committee, home of SNAP, and $880 billion or more from Energy and Commerce, home of Medicaid. Once the final law cleared the House on July 3 with Hudson's yes, it ended SNAP's shield against the three-month cutoff for three groups, homeless adults, veterans and former foster youth; CBO projects 300,000 fewer of them, net, will get SNAP.
What Richard Hudson's Votes Mean for Low-Income and Homeless North Carolinians
- Nearly one in three residents of Hudson's district depends on the Medicaid program the law cuts. Medicaid covered 31% of the population of North Carolina's 9th District in 2025, 244,800 people, according to KFF's district data. The law's $22.5 billion cut to North Carolina's federal Medicaid funding lands on a district where nearly a third of people count on the program to see a doctor.
- Homeless North Carolinians lost their SNAP exemption on December 1, 2025. Since December 1, 2025, North Carolina has applied SNAP's work rules to homeless adults who used to be exempt, the state's health department says, the change H.R. 1 required. A person without an address or steady work who cannot document 80 hours a month loses food aid after three months.
- 300,000 more North Carolinians lose health coverage by 2034. By 2034, KFF projects, the law by itself takes health coverage from 300,000 North Carolinians. Nationally the Congressional Budget Office counts 10 million more people without insurance in 2034, and people with the lowest incomes have the least room to pay a medical bill without coverage.
- SNAP rolls in North Carolina have shrunk by more than 110,000 people. North Carolina's SNAP participation fell by over 110,000 from September 2025 to August 2026, NC Health News reported, and food banks warned that private charity cannot cover a gap of that size.
Frequently Asked Questions About Richard Hudson on Homelessness and poverty
What is Richard Hudson's record on homelessness and poverty under Trump?
Richard Hudson voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's budget resolution, its House passage and its final passage in 2025, deciding the February 25 budget vote and the May 22 House vote and voting yes on July 3. By the Congressional Budget Office's math, households at the bottom lose resources under the law while the top tenth gains about $13,600 a year, and it ends SNAP's time-limit exemption for homeless people. KFF projects 300,000 more uninsured North Carolinians in 2034.
When did homeless North Carolinians start losing SNAP because of Richard Hudson's vote?
North Carolina started applying the SNAP rules in the law Richard Hudson voted for on December 1, 2025, when the state ended the exemption for people experiencing homelessness, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. From then on, a homeless adult without a qualifying exemption gets three months of SNAP in a 36-month period unless they meet the 80-hour work rule.
When do low-income North Carolinians on Medicaid face new paperwork under the law Richard Hudson voted for?
The law Richard Hudson voted for requires North Carolina to start Medicaid work reporting for expansion adults "no later than January 1, 2027," and to recheck their eligibility every six months for renewals on or after December 31, 2026, KFF reports. The Commonwealth Fund warns that many people dropped under such rules are still eligible but did not get the paperwork done.
Last updated: 2026-10-27