April 26, 2023 · House · RC 199

Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 (debt-ceiling bill with SNAP and Medicaid work requirements)

House Bill, H.R. 2811

What it did

H.R. 2811 was the House Republican answer to the 2023 debt-ceiling deadline, sponsored by Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX). It raised the borrowing limit only in exchange for rolling spending back to fiscal year 2022 levels, adding work-reporting requirements to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for adults up to age 55 and to Medicaid for adults aged 19 to 55, and taking back the Internal Revenue Service enforcement money meant for high-income audits.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the Medicaid requirement alone would remove about 600,000 people from coverage and that the SNAP change would end food assistance for roughly 275,000 adults in an average month, many of them parents. A yes vote accepted those terms.

A no vote refused to make hungry families and sick people the price of the nation's credit.

The bill passed 217-215 on April 26, 2023 and the Senate never took it up, but the roll call stands. At the time of this vote, the Census Bureau's child poverty rate had more than doubled in a single year (5.2% to 12.4%) after the expanded Child Tax Credit was allowed to expire.

Result: Passed 217-215

At the time of this vote: US child poverty more than doubled in 2022, from 5.2% to 12.4% (Census Supplemental Poverty Measure), after the expanded Child Tax Credit expired

The humane vote: No (NAY)

Official roll-call record

Members in this record who voted inhumanely (173)

Members in this record who voted humanely (169)