Roger Marshall on the Economy and Jobs: His Deciding Vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Vought Confirmation, and Kansas's Federal Job Losses

On July 1, 2025, Roger Marshall cast one of the 50 votes that passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, after voting against amendments to keep the clean-energy tax credits that the law ends. Energy Innovation projects the law's energy provisions will mean hundreds of thousands of lost jobs nationally by 2030, including thousands of jobs a year in Kansas.

Marshall voted to confirm Budget Director Russell Vought, whose office directed federal job cuts, and voted against budget amendments to rehire fired federal workers; Kansas's federal workforce fell 15 percent in 2025. He also cast one of the votes that kept the global tariffs in place in a 49-49 vote, and at an October 2026 debate he said a Salina manufacturer showed "the tariffs are working", which the company's finance chief disputed.

Roger Marshall's Votes and Statements on Jobs, Federal Workers and the Economy

• Marshall Cast One of the 50 Votes for a Law Projected to Cost 760,000 Jobs by 2030, in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Roger Marshall voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed 50 to 50 with the Vice President's vote and ends clean-energy tax credits on a schedule running through 2027 (Public Law 119-21). Energy Innovation projects "760,000 lost jobs by 2030" nationally from the law's energy provisions, and the Congressional Budget Office estimates the law raises federal interest costs by $405 billion through 2034 because it pushes interest rates up.
• Marshall Voted Against Three Amendments to Keep the Clean-Energy Tax Credits in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Marshall voted no on amendments "to maintain parity for wind and solar facilities" (rejected 47 to 53), to repeal the termination of clean-energy credits (rejected 49 to 51) and to modify the end of the residential clean energy credit (rejected 48 to 52). The credits ended as written, and Energy Innovation projects the federal energy policy changes will cost Kansas’ economy 3,900 jobs per year on average over the next decade.
• Marshall Voted Against Rehiring Fired Federal Workers, Including Veterans, in Early 2025. On February 20, 2025, Marshall voted no on a budget amendment for reinstating fired employees of the Forest Service, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Land Management, and on March 14, 2025 he voted no on making veterans dismissed from federal jobs without cause eligible for reinstatement. Federal payroll employment has fallen by 336,000 jobs since January 2025, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data compiled by FedSmith.
• Marshall Voted to Confirm the Budget Director Behind the Federal Job Cuts That Shrank Kansas's Federal Workforce 15 Percent. On February 6, 2025, Marshall voted to confirm Russell Vought as director of the Office of Management and Budget; he was confirmed 53 to 47. Vought's office directed the federal workforce reductions, and between January and November 2025 they reduced Missouri’s federal workforce by 13% and Kansas’ by 15%, from 11,287 federal workers in Kansas, according to KCUR's analysis of federal data.
• Marshall Cast One of the Votes That Kept the Global Tariffs in April 2025. On April 30, 2025, Marshall voted no on ending the emergency behind the "reciprocal" tariffs, which failed 49 to 49, so his vote alone would have changed the result. He also voted against ending the Brazil, Canada and global tariff emergencies on October 28, October 29 and October 30, 2025. New York Fed economists found that nearly 90 percent of the 2025 tariffs' burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers.
• Marshall Voted to Confirm the Officials Who Ran the $100,000 H-1B Fee and the New Visa Lottery. Marshall voted to confirm Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on January 25, 2025 and Joseph Edlow as director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services on July 15, 2025. Their agencies adopted a wage-weighted visa lottery that the Department of Homeland Security estimates will cut entry-level H-1B petitions by 10,099 a year, and they enforced a $100,000 payment on new H-1B petitions from September 2025 until a federal judge struck it down in June 2026, a ruling an appeals court kept in place.
• Marshall Said He Would Double Down on DOGE's Cuts as Kansas Lost Federal Workers. Kansas Public Radio reported on March 1, 2025 that Marshall had said on Newsmax that if he was Elon Musk, he would "double down, not slow down." Kansas later lost 32 percent of its USDA staff, and the Kansas Farmers Union told Wisconsin Public Radio that farmers are waiting longer for help applying for financial assistance.
• Marshall Called a Salina Plant Proof the Tariffs Are Working; the Company Said Its Growth Was Not Because of Tariffs. At the October 21, 2026 Senate debate, Marshall said of Great Plains Manufacturing and other Kansas plants: "We're seeing a manufacturing renaissance because we're bringing these jobs back home. So the tariffs are working." The company's chief financial officer told the Kansas Reflector its expansion came from capacity needs and market growth and "that growth was not because of tariffs," and that tariffs on steel and imported parts raised costs for the company and its customers.

What the Cuts Roger Marshall Backed Mean for Kansas Jobs

• Federal jobs. The Kansas City metro lost about 2,800 federal jobs, or about 10% of the area's federal workforce, according to KCUR's review of Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
• Farm services. Kansas lost 32 percent of its USDA staff, the agency farmers rely on for loans, disaster aid and conservation programs, according to Wisconsin Public Radio's analysis.
• Energy jobs. Energy Innovation projects that the federal energy policy changes cost Kansas’ economy 3,900 jobs per year on average, in addition to clean-energy jobs already lost in Kansas since January 2025.

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Last updated: 2026-10-25

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