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Bill Huizenga Claims There Will Be "Bumps In The Road" With Tariffs, But It Will Be "Good In The Long Run." [Bloomberg Balance of Power, 4/28/25]
Bill Huizenga Claims The One Big Beautiful Bill Didn't Make Cuts To Medicaid: "These Are Savings Not Cuts." [Newsmax: Wake Up America, 6/17/25]
¶ How To Win Against Bill Huizenga
Bill Huizenga has shown that he will turn his back on West Michiganders when it matters most. He promised Republicans wouldn't touch Medicaid or Medicare, then he voted for a bill that could kick tens of thousands of Michiganders off their health coverage and that would cut Medicare. He promised Republicans would not touch Social Security, then he supported an agency that weakened Americans' ability to access it and has tried to paper over his history of supporting raising the retirement age. Then Huizenga lost his spine and decided to support tariffs that he previously said could lead to job losses in West Michigan. Huizenga has done nothing but vote to raise costs and take health care from Michiganders while his own net worth has skyrocketed in congress.
¶ Huizenga repeatedly voted to take health care from michiganders
- In February of 2025, Huizenga promised that Republicans would not touch Medicaid, then he voted three times to cut Medicaid and take health insurance from Michiganders. Huizenga even tried to gaslight Michiganders and claimed Republicans weren't cutting Medicaid when in reality the final bill he voted for would kick 17 million Americans off their health insurance, including nearly 12 million Americans off of Medicaid. More than 30,000 Michiganders in the 4th congressional district were at-risk of losing their health coverage because of Huizenga's votes.
- Since coming to congress in 2011, Huizenga has also repeatedly voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which he called a "huge, massive problem" even though nearly 500,000 Michiganders relied on the ACA to access health insurance. Huizenga, who has accepted more than $1.2 million in campaign contributions from the insurance industry over his career, has said Americans should have some "skin in the game" when it comes to health care and that he doesn't believe health care is a constitutional right. Most recently, Huizenga voted against extending enhanced ACA tax credits and as a result Michiganders faced premium increases.
Message: Huizenga voted to take health coverage from Michiganders all to give billionaires tax breaks.
¶ Huizenga supported policies that threatened seniors' services and benefits
- Huizenga voted against allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug costs and capping the cost of insulin. Over the course of his time in Congress, Huizenga has accepted $78,737 in campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical/health products industry.
- In 2025, Huizenga promised that Republicans had no intention of cutting Medicare, but then he voted for House Republicans' reconciliation bill, which would trigger nearly $500 billion in Medicare cuts, absent future congressional action. He was also a member of the Republican Study Committee, which has advocated for raising the retirement age and turning Medicare into a voucher system. Earlier in his career in Congress, Huizenga also defended proposals that sought to turn Medicare into a premium support system. Huizenga even once called to block grant Medicare.
- Huizenga has also expressed support for raising the Social Security retirement age. In 2013, he said congress needed to reexamine Social Security, particularly "who qualifies and at what level they qualify." In 2024, he pushed for a fiscal commission to review federal spending that advocates worried could threaten Social Security by setting up a process that could ram through drastic cuts to programs without amendment or full public debate.
Message: West Michigan seniors cannot count on Bill Huizenga to fight to protect their benefits or lower prescription drug costs.
¶ Huizenga voted to cut food assistance West Michiganders rely on to afford groceries
- Huizenga voted for a bill that made the largest SNAP cut in history. His vote threatened food assistance for more than 35,000 Michigan households in the 4th congressional district.
Message: Huizenga voted to take food assistance from West Michiganders all to give billionaires tax breaks.
¶ Huizenga betrayed west Michiganders by flip-flopping on his position on tariffs
- During the first Trump administration, Huizenga opposed the imposition of tariffs because of the potential for job losses on West Michigan. He called them "misguided" and slammed Trump's "protectionist" policies for "trying to recapture a world that doesn't exist anymore."
- Then Huizenga lost his spine and bowed to Trump during his second administration when it came to tariffs, claiming they were the "right thing to do." He claimed tariffs were "common sense" and that they would make the United States more prosperous despite also acknowledging they would cause some "bumps in the road." Then he voted six times to protect Trump's tariffs including in April 2025, when Huizenga was the deciding vote to protect Trump's tariffs. Tariffs "created havoc" for Western Michigan's industrial buyers, raised costs on Michiganders and small businesses, made farmers lose money, and amounted to a $1,000 tax increase on Americans.
Message: Huizenga betrayed his principles and West Michiganders, dooming them to higher costs because he wouldn't fight back against tariffs.
¶ Huizenga Supported An Agency That Laid Off Federal Workers And Hamstrung Social Security
- Huizenga was a very early supporter of Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency" and said the agency was "going to be able to do a lot of good work." Huizenga also defended DOGE to constituents that were protesting outside his office and said the agency was "greatly improving transparency and accountability."
- Despite Huizenga's praise for DOGE, Michiganders were suffering thanks to the agency's actions. DOGE's downsizing efforts were affecting the federal government's ability to deliver services to seniors, including more than 178,000 of Huizenga's constituents. DOGE cancelled grants for the Michigan Department of Health And Human Services, Department of Education, and EPA.
Message: Huizenga was an early and continued supporter of an agency that eliminated key state level grants and caused Michigan seniors to wait longer for services.
¶ Huizenga voted against the bipartisan infrastructure law that was helping rebuild michigan's infrastructure
- In 2021, Huizenga voted against the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, calling it a "monstrosity" and a "reckless spending spree." Since its passage, Michigan has received $13 billion in infrastructure funding, including for a grant to help Kalamazoo upgrade its stormwater infrastructure.
Message: Huizenga was so entrenched in party politics he wouldn't even vote to repair West Michigan's roads and bridges.
¶ Huizenga's net worth has increased while he's been in congress
- When Huizenga entered congress in 2011, he had an estimated net worth between $172,015 to $947,998. In 2025, his net worth had grown to be between $885,000 to $2,805,999. That means his net worth increased by as much as five times between 2011 and 2025.
Message: Huizenga is just another DC swamp creature.
¶ It took huizenga 11 months to vote to release the epstein files, and he did only after trump told republicans it was okay
- In November 2025, Huizenga finally voted to release the Epstein files, but only after Donald Trump gave House Republicans permission to do so. Previously, Huizenga had cast the deciding vote against releasing the Epstein files, protecting the accused pedophiles named within them. Huizenga also never signed the discharge petition that called for their release and he never co-sponsored Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna's resolution calling for their release.
Message: It took Huizenga 11 months to vote to release the Epstein files and he did only after Trump gave Republicans permission to do so.
¶ Issue Briefs
¶ Bill Huizenga Supported Policies That Hurt Every Day Michiganders
Huizenga Has Repeatedly Voted To Take Health Care From Michiganders
Huizenga Supported Policies That Hurt West Michigan Seniors
Huizenga Voted To Take Food Assistance From Michiganders
Huizenga Flip-Flopped On Tariffs Dooming Michiganders To Higher Prices
Huizenga Supported An Agency That Cut Grants To Michigan And Weakened Social Security Services
Huizenga Voted Against Repairing West Michigan's Infrastructure- 🪖 Huizenga Backed Trump's Costly War With Iran That Raised Prices On Michiganders
¶ Bill Huizenga Used His Power To Benefit The Powerful And Himself
Huizenga's Net Worth Has Increased During His Time In Congress
It Took Huizenga 11 Months To Vote To Release The Epstein Files
Huizenga's Key Votes In Congress