Rob Wittman, a Republican, represents Virginia's 1st District in the U.S. House, a seat he first won in a December 2007 special election, and he is seeking another term on November 3, 2026. In his district, 112,200 people have Medicaid, 183,709 collect Social Security and 29,000 children get only part of the child tax credit or none, and each group is touched by a law Wittman voted for: House approval of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act came May 22, 2025, 215 votes to 214, his among them, he voted for the final version on July 3, and KFF calculates it removes $28.6 billion from Virginia's federal Medicaid funding over the decade.
About Rob Wittman
- Full name
- Robert J. "Rob" Wittman, Republican, on the Clerk of the House member list as Robert J. Wittman of Virginia's 1st District
- Current role
- House member for Virginia's 1st District, with seats on the Armed Services and Natural Resources committees
- In office since
- Has represented Virginia's 1st District since winning a December 11, 2007 special election
- Seeking
- Another term representing Virginia's 1st District, in the general election of November 3, 2026
- Key votes
- Adoption of the budget resolution, H.Con.Res. 14, on February 25, 2025; the May 22, 2025 House vote on H.R. 1; the July 3, 2025 final vote on H.R. 1; and the April 16, 2026 resolution praising the law's tax policies (H.Res. 1156)
What Rob Wittman Is Responsible For
- Medicaid patients in the 1st District. One resident in seven of Virginia's 1st District, 112,200 people, is enrolled in Medicaid. The May 22, 2025 House vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act came out 215 to 214 with Wittman's yes, and he voted for the final law on July 3; Virginia's slice of its Medicaid cut is $28.6 billion by KFF's allocation, and the 43,200 expansion adults in his district face a work requirement that must begin no later than January 1, 2027.
- Virginians losing insurance. KFF projects that 310,000 additional Virginians go without coverage in 2034 as a direct result of the law Wittman voted for, within a national total of 10 million estimated by the Congressional Budget Office.
- Hospital patients and rural Virginia. The law Wittman voted for on July 3, 2025 caps state-directed hospital payments: in Virginia some $2.36 billion a year in federal hospital spending exceeds the caps, KFF estimates, and rural areas of the state lose $5.95 billion in Medicaid dollars over ten years. Both 2025 budget resolutions that set up the law turned on his vote.
- Families who rely on SNAP. SNAP shrinks by $187 billion through 2034, roughly 20 percent, under the law Wittman voted for, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found, and the group's June 2025 estimate for a Senate Agriculture Committee proposal with the same broader work rules the law adopted put 22,000 Virginians in their late fifties and early sixties plus 25,000 parents of teens at risk of being cut off.
- Medicare enrollees. Refugees, asylees and others in the U.S. lawfully without green cards are dropped from Medicare by the law Wittman voted for, which KFF calls the first instance of Congress taking the program from people who qualified; those already identified lose coverage February 1, 2027, the date in CMS's proposed rule. Virginia had 1,687,718 people on Medicare in 2024.
- Virginians in nursing homes or waiting for home care. With Wittman's vote, the federal staffing standard for nursing homes cannot be enforced through September 30, 2034, and the Medicaid money behind 62% of Virginia's 28,554 nursing-home residents shrinks, while 14,422 Virginians were still waiting for Medicaid home care as of 2026.
- Retirees and others on Social Security. Social Security's chief actuary estimates that the law Wittman voted for raises program costs by $168.6 billion through 2034, while the shortfall in the retirement fund now lands a quarter-year sooner, in late 2032; Wittman's district had 183,709 beneficiaries in December 2024.
- Children in low-earning families. Columbia University's poverty center counts 29,000 children in Virginia's 1st District, 18% of them, whose parents' earnings are too low for the full child tax credit, under rules Wittman's vote helped enact.
- Student loan borrowers. The Repayment Assistance Plan began in the House bill that Wittman's decisive May 2025 vote passed; Virginia borrowers switched to it from SAVE pay about $2,722 more each year, by the Center for American Progress's estimate, and the final law shut down Graduate PLUS lending.
- Working families and the richest households. In the Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the law Wittman voted for, households in the top tenth gain roughly $13,600 a year and those at the bottom lose about $1,200; Wittman later voted, in April 2026, for a resolution that dubs it the "Working Families Tax Cuts."
- Virginia households paying energy bills. Energy Innovation finds that the law Wittman voted for, in repealing clean-energy credits, could add about $250 a year to the typical Virginia household's energy costs by 2035, and Rhodium Group now sees U.S. emissions in 2035 at 27 to 44 percent under 2005 levels, versus its pre-law range of 38 to 56 percent.
- Workers in clean-energy jobs. Energy Innovation's analysis of the energy sections in the law Wittman voted for concludes: "Workers suffer 760,000 lost jobs by 2030."
- Planned Parenthood patients. For a year, the law Wittman voted for barred Medicaid from paying Planned Parenthood; over that year the organization counted close to 30 of its health centers closed and 25% fewer Medicaid visits, more than 250,000 lost.
- Immigrant families and detention. Both Wittman's decisive May 2025 yes and his July vote went to a law steering $170.7 billion into immigration and border enforcement; by March 2026, "nearly 70,000 people are in ICE detention, the highest number in several years," NPR reported.
- Consumers and the CFPB. Under the law Wittman voted for, the ceiling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's budget falls to 6.5% of a Federal Reserve benchmark from 12%; the Congressional Research Service pegs that at about $446 million for fiscal 2025, down from $823 million, leaving the agency that polices lenders and debt collectors with less to spend.
- Gun tracing. Wittman's vote helped scrap the $200 federal levy on silencers and on short-barreled rifles and shotguns, and after a federal judge held the repeal removed the basis for regulating them, the ATF stopped registering them as of October 9, 2026, giving up a record that helps investigators trace firearms in crimes.
How This Page on Rob Wittman Is Sourced
Each vote described here links to the Clerk of the House roll call that records it, final passage of H.R. 1 on July 3, 2025 among them. Figures for Virginia and the 1st District link to the datasets they come from, including KFF's congressional district Medicaid table and the Social Security Administration's district statistics, and national estimates link to the Congressional Budget Office, KFF, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other research groups, in a version updated October 27, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions About Rob Wittman
What is Rob Wittman's record under Trump?
In 2025 Rob Wittman cast yes votes for the budget plan behind the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, for its House version and for its final version, and both budget resolutions and its 215-to-214 House passage turned on his vote. For Virginia, KFF estimates, that means $28.6 billion less in federal Medicaid funding and 310,000 more uninsured residents in 2034, and nationally the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities tallies a $187 billion SNAP reduction. In April 2026 a resolution celebrating the law got his yes as well.
Did the Big Beautiful Bill depend on Rob Wittman's vote?
It did: the House version that Rob Wittman voted for on May 22, 2025 passed 215 to 214, so his switch would have defeated it. His votes were also decisive on the February and April 2025 budget resolutions and on two July 2, 2025 procedural votes on the rule for the Senate-amended bill, on consideration and on the previous question, before the final version passed July 3 by 218 to 214.
How many people in Rob Wittman's district are on Medicaid?
Rob Wittman's 1st District counted 112,200 Medicaid enrollees in 2025, 14% of its residents, according to KFF: 35,500 children, 43,200 expansion adults, 8,900 seniors and 8,200 people with disabilities among them. The law he voted for takes 18% of Virginia's expected federal Medicaid dollars over ten years.
Which Virginians could lose food aid because of Rob Wittman's vote?
Rob Wittman's vote went to a law that stretches SNAP's work rules to people up to 64, to parents whose youngest is 14 or older, and to veterans. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates from June 2025, made for a Senate Agriculture Committee proposal with those same age and parent expansions, put about 47,000 older Virginians and parents of teens at risk, and 35,000 of the state's veterans live in SNAP households.
What does the law Rob Wittman voted for mean for Social Security recipients in his district?
For the 183,709 Social Security recipients in Rob Wittman's district, 150,706 of them retired workers, the law he voted for means a program $168.6 billion costlier over ten years and a retirement-fund shortfall pulled into late 2032. At that point the average Virginia retiree's check would be cut by $522 a month, in a June 2026 Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget analysis.
Last updated: 2026-10-27