Rep. Thomas Massie opposes big GOP spending

Rep. Thomas Massie’s recent spending record is straightforward on the House roll call pages: when Republican leaders moved major fiscal packages in 2025, the Kentucky Republican often voted no. House Clerk records show Massie opposed the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act on March 11, 2025, then voted against House passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on May 22, 2025, and against the final House vote concurring in the Senate amendment on July 3, 2025. ### Which big GOP spending measures did Massie vote against? On March 11, 2025, the House passed the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 by 217-213. The House clerk’s vote page shows Republicans backed it 216-1, meaning Massie was the lone Republican “nay” on final passage. On May 22, 2025, the House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by 215-214. (clerk.house.gov) The clerk’s vote page shows 215 Republicans voted yes, two Republicans voted no, and one voted present; Massie was one of the two Republican no votes. On July 3, 2025, the House voted 218-214 to concur in the Senate amendment to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The clerk’s vote page again shows two Republicans voting no, with Massie among them. (clerk.house.gov) ### Was he really one of only a few Republicans? The vote totals support that description. In the March 11 continuing-resolution vote, Massie was the only Republican to oppose final passage. (clerk.house.gov) In the May 22 House passage vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, only two Republicans voted no. In the July 3 final House vote on the Senate-amended bill, only two Republicans voted no again. (clerk.house.gov) That pattern matches broader reporting on Massie’s break with President Donald Trump and House GOP leaders over debt and spending. NBC News reported Massie opposed Trump’s “big beautiful bill” over debt concerns, and the Associated Press described him as willing to buck both party leaders and the president. (clerk.house.gov) ### What was the deficit argument around the “big beautiful bill”? The Congressional Budget Office said the House-passed version of H.R. 1 would increase the primary deficit by $2.4 trillion over the 2025-2034 period. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, citing CBO, said that rises to roughly $3 trillion when interest costs are included. That means the “about $2 trillion” figure in the social-media post understates the central CBO estimate for the House-passed bill. (nbcnews.com) CBO’s posted estimate put the primary-deficit increase at $2.4 trillion, while CRFB’s summary rounded the debt effect including interest to about $3 trillion. ### Was this new behavior from Massie? Thomas Massie’s House office maintains a public vote record that shows a long pattern of dissent from leadership-backed bills, though the specific votes at issue here are the 2025 spending and tax measures. (cbo.gov) Recent coverage after his 2026 primary loss also pointed back to those votes as examples of his willingness to oppose Trump-backed legislation. ### Where should readers check the record themselves? The most direct source is the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. The key pages are Roll Call 70 for the March 11, 2025 continuing-resolution vote, Roll Call 145 for House passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on May 22, 2025, and Roll Call 190 for the July 3, 2025 vote to concur in the Senate amendment. CBO’s H.R. 1 estimate and CRFB’s summary provide the deficit figures cited in the debate. (massie.house.gov) (clerk.house.gov)