Rob Wittman and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: His Votes From the Budget Plan to Final Passage, and the $28.6 Billion Virginia Loses in Medicaid

Medicaid patients, families on SNAP, retirees and student borrowers in Virginia all carry part of the cost of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and Rob Wittman, who represents Virginia's 1st District, voted for its budget plan, its House version and its final version. The House version drew 215 yeas to 214 nays on May 22, 2025 with Wittman among the yeas, and on July 3 he voted for the final law, which strips $28.6 billion from Virginia's federal Medicaid funding over ten years in KFF's accounting.

Earlier, his votes had settled both versions of the 2025 budget resolution, which set savings targets of $880 billion or more for the Energy and Commerce Committee and $230 billion or more for Agriculture, the committees that write Medicaid and SNAP law, and he voted for each rule that set up floor debate. In April 2026 he joined the majority on a resolution lauding the law. KFF expects 310,000 more Virginians to be uninsured in 2034 because of it.

Rob Wittman's House Votes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, From Budget Plan to Final Passage

• Wittman's Deciding February 2025 Vote Adopted a Budget Plan Ordering $880 Billion From Energy and Commerce and $230 Billion From Agriculture. Three roll calls on February 25, 2025 carried the House budget resolution forward, and Rob Wittman voted aye on all three: ordering the previous question on H.Res. 161, adopting H.Res. 161 as the rule for debate, and adopting H.Con.Res. 14 by 217 to 215. Had he alone gone the other way on that last tally, the result would have been a tie, which defeats a resolution. Under its reconciliation instructions, Energy and Commerce, home of Medicaid, had to "reduce the deficit by not less than $880,000,000,000" over the decade; Agriculture, home of SNAP, had a $230 billion floor of its own; and Ways and Means was cleared to widen deficits by up to $4.5 trillion.
• April 2025's Rule and Final Budget Resolution Both Hinged on Wittman's Votes. The Senate's amended budget resolution reached the House floor under H.Res. 313. Wittman voted on April 9, 2025 first to order the previous question on that rule, then for the rule, which squeaked by 216 to 215; the following day the House agreed to the Senate text 216 to 214, Wittman voting aye. A reversal by Wittman alone would have flipped either outcome. The final text carried over the same committee instructions. The Medicaid cut in the law Wittman voted for on July 3 comes to $911 billion over the decade in the Congressional Budget Office's score, as KFF reports.
• Wittman Was One of 215 Yes Votes When the House Bill Passed by a Single Vote in May 2025. Six roll calls on H.R. 1 took place on May 22, 2025, and Wittman took the bill's side on all six. On H.Res. 436, its rule, he voted for consideration twice, by tallies of 217 to 211 and 216 to 211, then the previous-question motion at 213 to 211 and the rule's adoption at 217 to 212, after which Wittman also voted against the motion to recommit (it failed, 212 to 216). Finally, H.R. 1 itself passed 215 to 214, a member voting present, with Wittman in the majority; the previous-question motion and the bill each depended on his vote. Rewritten by the Senate, the bill became the law Wittman voted for in July; on their own, its Medicaid sections push 7.5 million more people into the uninsured column in 2034, by the Congressional Budget Office count that KFF cites, and the law blocked Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood for a "1-year period".
• Wittman's July 2025 Votes Were Needed to Take Up the Final Bill, and He Voted to Pass It. Bringing the Senate version to the floor took two July 2, 2025 votes, each close enough that a switch by Wittman alone would have changed it: consideration of H.Res. 566 (212 to 211) and then the previous-question motion (214 to 212). The Foxx amendment to that rule got his vote too, and on July 3 he voted for the amended rule and for concurring in the Senate amendment, the vote of final passage, 218 to 214. The bill was signed into law July 4, 2025 as Public Law 119-21. According to KFF's reporting of the Congressional Budget Office estimate, the law raises the uninsured count by 10 million in 2034, while by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' reckoning "The megabill cuts SNAP by $187 billion or about 20 percent by 2034."
• Wittman Voted For an April 2026 Resolution Selling the Law as Tax Relief for Working Families. H.Res. 1156 cleared the House 219 to 207 on April 16, 2026, and Wittman was among the yeas. It labels the law the "Working Families Tax Cuts" and claims it "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's 2026 analysis reaches a different verdict for those at the bottom: "For the poorest fifth of Americans, the average tax change from OBBBA is a small tax increase," while the richest 1 percent collect tax cuts averaging over $70,000.

Who in Virginia Pays for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Rob Wittman Voted For, Topic by Topic

• 1st District Medicaid enrollees, 112,200 of them, share a $28.6 billion statewide cut. Virginia's federal Medicaid dollars shrink by $28.6 billion, about 18% of the expected total, across ten years under KFF's allocation, and 112,200 residents of Virginia's 1st District relied on Medicaid in 2025. Wittman's role is detailed on his health care page.
• Virginia hospitals lose payments above new federal caps, and rural Medicaid shrinks $5.95 billion. Some $2.36 billion a year in federal Virginia hospital payments sits above the new caps on state-directed payments, per KFF, and Medicaid spending in rural Virginia falls $5.95 billion over the decade. Rob Wittman's health care page goes through it.
• Virginia's uninsured population grows by 310,000 in 2034. The law alone accounts for 310,000 additional uninsured Virginians in 2034, KFF projects, and nationally the lowest-income tenth of households end up roughly $1,200 a year poorer, per the Congressional Budget Office. Wittman's votes affecting the poorest families are collected on his homelessness and poverty page.
• CBPP's June 2025 estimate found some 47,000 older Virginians and parents of teens exposed to SNAP's time limit. Pre-enactment estimates from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, made in June 2025 by scoring a Senate Agriculture Committee plan that carried the expanded work rules the law adopted, showed roughly 22,000 Virginia SNAP recipients aged 55 to 64, and 25,000 parents with no child under 14, at monthly risk of losing benefits. Details are on Rob Wittman's food assistance page.
• Virginia taxpayers pick up three of every four dollars of SNAP's administrative cost. As of October 1, 2026, Virginia's share of SNAP administration is 75 percent, and starting in fiscal 2028 it may owe part of the benefit cost too, a burden on state taxpayers while the law's tax savings concentrate at the top. See Wittman's taxes and deficit page.
• 1.69 million Virginia Medicare enrollees rely on a hospital fund now projected to run short in 2033. KFF counted 1,687,718 Virginians in Medicare in 2024. Medicare's hospital trust fund now runs dry a quarter sooner than last projected, though still in 2033, mainly because of the law, and for lawfully present immigrants already identified, Medicare coverage stops February 1, 2027, the date in CMS's proposed rule. Rob Wittman's Medicare page explains both.
• Six in ten Virginia nursing-home residents rely mainly on Medicaid, and 14,422 people await home care. Virginia's certified nursing facilities house 28,554 people, and Medicaid pays first for 62% of them; another 14,422 Virginians were waiting for Medicaid home care in 2026; on top of that, the law shelves the federal nursing-home staffing standard until 2034. Rob Wittman's elder care page has more.
• Virginia's Medicaid expansion adults, disabled adults among them, must meet the work rule unless exempt. Virginia's 1st District had 43,200 Medicaid expansion adults and 8,200 enrollees with disabilities in 2025, KFF reports; starting no later than January 1, 2027, the expansion adults, disabled adults among them, must log work hours unless one of the law's exemptions applies, and those exemptions include people who are blind or disabled under section 1614, people with a disabling mental disorder and people with a serious or complex medical condition. The votes are on Wittman's disability rights page.
• 32,586 Virginia Medicaid adults were receiving opioid-addiction medication. In 2021, 42,016 adults on Virginia Medicaid had an opioid use disorder and 32,586 were getting medication for it; the law's Medicaid work rule, due by January 1, 2027, exempts a substance use disorder but requires hours from expansion adults whose mental illness is not judged disabling and who have no other exemption, and the specifics are on Rob Wittman's mental health and addiction page.
• The 1st District has 29,000 children who fall short of the top child tax credit. Low parental earnings leave 29,000 children in Virginia's 1st District, 18% of the total, with less than the full credit, Columbia University's poverty researchers estimate; Wittman's child care and families page has the rest.
• Social Security costs $168.6 billion more under the law, and 183,709 1st District residents draw benefits. Social Security's chief actuary estimates the law adds $168.6 billion to program costs through 2034, and in Virginia's 1st District 183,709 people drew benefits as of December 2024. See Rob Wittman's Social Security page.
• Student borrowers in Virginia pay $2,722 more a year after leaving SAVE. Moving from SAVE into the law's Repayment Assistance Plan raises a Virginia borrower's annual payments an average of $2,722, per Center for American Progress calculations, and Wittman's student debt page lays out the votes.
• Virginia veterans on SNAP who are 18 to 64 with no other exemption can now be cut off after three months. Virginia averaged 35,000 veterans in SNAP households from 2021 to 2023, and the law did away with veterans' special exemption from the time limit for veterans of working age, 18 to 64, unless a disability or other exemption applies, a vote documented on Rob Wittman's veterans page.
• Typical Virginia household energy costs could climb about $250 a year by 2035. Energy Innovation projects, as CNBC reported, that the law's energy provisions could raise the typical Virginia household's yearly energy bill by about $250 by 2035.

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