On July 1, 2025, Roger Marshall cast one of the 50 votes that passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, under which the Congressional Budget Office found resources for the lowest-income tenth of households will decrease by about $1,200 per year. The law also ended SNAP's work-rule exemption for people experiencing homelessness, and Marshall voted against a motion to keep it.
Marshall voted to confirm Scott Turner as secretary of housing and urban development, whose department has tried twice to move homelessness money away from permanent housing; a court blocked the first plan, and an appeals court let the second proceed in September 2026. HUD has also proposed time limits on rental aid that, if adopted, would put thousands of Kansans at risk of losing it.
Roger Marshall's Votes on Poverty, Homelessness and Housing Aid
- Marshall Cast a Deciding Vote for a Law That Takes About $1,200 a Year From the Lowest-Income Households in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Roger Marshall voted yes on H.R. 1, which passed 50 to 50 with the Vice President's tie-breaking vote, so it would have failed without his vote. The Congressional Budget Office found that resources for the lowest-income tenth will decrease by about $1,200 per year (in 2025 dollars), while CBPP reports that household incomes will rise by $13,600 for the top 10 percent; combined with tariffs, the law will leave households with incomes in the bottom 70 percent worse off, according to the Yale Budget Lab.
- Marshall Voted Against Keeping SNAP's Protection for Homeless People and Veterans in June 2025. On June 30, 2025, Marshall voted no on Senator Tammy Duckworth's motion to make sure SNAP benefits are not terminated or reduced for homeless individuals, veterans, former foster youth and parents of children under 18. It failed 49 to 51. The law now requires people experiencing homelessness to show 20 hours of work a week or lose SNAP after three months, and the Congressional Budget Office estimates a net reduction in SNAP participation of 300,000 people among homeless people, veterans and former foster youth.
- Marshall Voted Against Removing Paperwork Rules That Cut People Off Aid in June 2025. On June 30, 2025, Marshall voted no on Senator Chris Coons's motion to remove provisions stripping individuals in the United States of the Federal benefits to which they are entitled through new paperwork rules. It failed 48 to 52. Those rules reach people who rent with federal help: three in four households with rental assistance include a person who receives health coverage through Medicaid or a related program.
- Marshall Voted to Confirm Scott Turner, Whose HUD Is Moving Homelessness Money Away From Permanent Housing. On February 5, 2025, Marshall voted to confirm Scott Turner as secretary of housing and urban development; all 53 Republican senators voted yes. On June 10, 2025 he also voted to confirm Andrew Hughes as Turner's deputy. Turner's department's first plan for the Continuum of Care homelessness grants, which CBPP said would take housing assistance away from over 170,000 formerly homeless people in 2026, was blocked in court. Its second plan would set aside $1.3 billion of the more than $4 billion that Congress appropriated for transitional and service-only grants; after an appeals court ruled in September 2026 that HUD can now move forward making awards under the challenged CoC notice, the National Alliance to End Homelessness estimates that at least 97,000 people in CoC-funded permanent housing will likely lose their housing.
What Roger Marshall's Votes Mean for Low-Income Kansans
- Rental aid at risk. If housing agencies adopt HUD's proposed two-year time limits, CBPP estimates 17,900 Kansans, including 9,400 children, could be at risk of losing rental assistance; the rule is proposed, not final.
- Food aid. Kansas Appleseed counts 24,000 Kansans statewide who lost SNAP benefits in the year after the law took effect, losses it attributes to the expanded work rules and new paperwork.
Frequently Asked Questions About Roger Marshall on Homelessness and poverty
What is Roger Marshall's record on homelessness and poverty under Trump?
Roger Marshall voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, under which the Congressional Budget Office found the lowest-income tenth of households lose about $1,200 a year, and against a motion to keep SNAP's protection for homeless people and veterans. Marshall also voted to confirm HUD Secretary Scott Turner, whose department's new homelessness grant rules could cost tens of thousands of formerly homeless people their housing.
Did Roger Marshall vote to confirm HUD Secretary Scott Turner?
Yes. Roger Marshall voted to confirm Scott Turner on February 5, 2025. In September 2026, after an appeals court let HUD go ahead with its new homelessness grant rules, Turner called the ruling a "win for taxpayers"; the rules shift money toward transitional housing and away from permanent housing for formerly homeless people.
Is HUD putting time limits on housing assistance under the secretary Roger Marshall confirmed?
HUD under Scott Turner, whom Roger Marshall voted to confirm, has proposed but not finalized a rule that would let housing agencies and landlords set time limits on rental aid for non-elderly, non-disabled families. CBPP estimates as many as 3.7 million people, more than half of them children, would be at risk nationally if agencies adopt it.
Last updated: 2026-10-25