Hill Voted For The "One Big Beautiful Bill" That Cuts Up To $1 Trillion From Medicaid -- Then Told Constituents He Had "Never Voted To End Medicare Or Medicaid." According to the Arkansas Times, Hill and "Arkansas's congressmen all vote to slash their constituents' health insurance" when H.R. 1 passed 215-214 on May 22, 2025. Hill then sent a constituent letter claiming, "I have never voted to end Medicare or Medicaid." Arkansas Democratic Party Chair Grant Tennille responded: "Rep. Hill is lying to you; he voted to slash essential funding for Medicaid." [Arkansas Times, 7/3/25; Arkansas Democrats, 3/25/25]
Hill Championed Medicaid Work Requirements That Stripped 18,000 Arkansans Of Coverage. According to Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, "the implementation of the policy [...] resulted in more than 18,000 Arkansans losing their health insurance in the last few months of 2018" while "only around 4,000 Arkansas Works enrollees have gone from not working to working." A federal judge later blocked the requirements, ruling they violated the Medicaid Act's core purpose. [Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, 3/26/19]
Hill Voted Against Allowing Medicare To Negotiate Prescription Drug Prices. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Hill voted against H.R. 3, which "would have allowed the federal government to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices" and "set limits on prices so that they don't exceed 120% of the average price charged in several other Western democracies." His 2020 Democratic challenger Joyce Elliott responded: "One of the few things that nearly all Americans can agree on is that prescription drug prices are way too high. It should take your breath away, French Hill voted against lowering prescription drug costs." [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 12/15/19]
Hill Voted For A GOP Health Plan That Let ACA Premium Subsidies Expire, Doubling Costs For Millions. According to NBC News, Hill voted for H.R. 6703, which expanded Health Savings Accounts but did not extend the enhanced ACA premium subsidies. The result: enhanced premium subsidies expired, and premiums doubled on average for roughly 22 million Americans who benefited from the credits. [NBC News, 12/11/25]
Hill Voted For The American Health Care Act, Which CBO Said Would Leave 24 Million Uninsured. According to Talk Business & Politics, "All four of Arkansas' representatives voted for the bill, which passed 217-213." The CBO estimated the AHCA would result in 23 million more uninsured Americans and cut $834 billion from Medicaid over ten years. [Talk Business & Politics, 5/4/17]
Hill Voted To Sustain Trump's Canada Tariffs Days After Saying He Opposed Across-The-Board Tariffs. According to KATV, Hill told a reporter on February 12, 2026, "I don't support across-the-board tariffs. They can have a price level increase at one moment. Tariffs are a negotiating tool. Putting them at a high level and leaving them on can hurt families." The day before, the House voted 219-211 to end Trump's IEEPA-based tariffs on Canada -- and Hill voted against the resolution, siding with Trump to keep the tariffs in place. [KATV, 2/12/26; Reuters, 2/11/26]
Arkansas Soybean Exports To China Fell 43.7% As Tariffs Drove Buyers To Brazil. According to the Arkansas Advocate, "about half of the state's soybean exports were sent to China last year [...] But after Trump levied tariffs on Chinese goods, the east Asian country imposed reciprocal tariffs on American-grown crops. Soybean exports from the U.S. to China were down 43.7% in April compared to the same time last year." [Arkansas Advocate, 7/1/25]
Agricultural Council Of Arkansas Warned Tariffs Could Close 1 In 3 Farms In The State. According to NPR, "the Agricultural Council of Arkansas, a lobbying group, has been to D.C. to ask lawmakers for assistance. The group says the current disaster could close 1 in 3 farms in Arkansas." [NPR, 9/11/25]
Hill Voted For The "One Big Beautiful Bill" That Cuts $186 Billion From SNAP. According to CNBC, the bill imposes expanded work requirements for adults ages 18-64, removes exemptions for veterans and former foster youth, and for the first time shifts up to 15% of benefit costs to states. Hill voted for the bill, which passed 215-214. [CNBC, 8/8/25]
Arkansas Ranks Dead Last In The Nation For Food Insecurity. According to KAIT, "Arkansas ranks first in the nation for food insecurity, according to a new study by the United States Department of Agriculture, with nearly one in five households struggling with food access from 2022 through 2024." [KAIT, 1/9/26]
25% Of Arkansas Children Were Food Insecure In 2023. According to Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, "food insecurity among children is even higher. For 2023, Feeding America reports that 25% of children, up from 19% in 2021, were food insecure. That means that in 2023, nearly 570,000 Arkansans -- more than 168,000 of whom were children -- lacked sufficient food." [Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, 1/29/25]
Hill Voted Against Protecting Same-Sex And Interracial Marriage. According to the Arkansas Times, Hill voted against HR 8404, legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriage. Hill's defense: "In my view, in today's America, our citizens can already marry whomever they wish regardless of sex, race, religion, or national origin and therefore believed HR 8404 was unnecessary." The Arkansas Times noted the contradiction with the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, which overturned precedent the same justices had sworn to respect. [Arkansas Times, 7/21/22]
Hill's Estimated Net Worth Is $20.4 Million -- The 64th Highest In Congress. According to Quiver Quantitative, Hill has approximately $16.8 million invested in publicly traded assets. He founded Delta Trust & Banking Corporation in 1999, sold it to Simmons First National Corp. in 2014 when he ran for Congress, and still held between $1.1 million and $5.25 million in Simmons Bank stock while serving on the CARES Act oversight commission. [Quiver Quantitative, 2/2/26]
Only 0.73% Of Hill's Campaign Donations Came From Small Donors. According to the DCCC, "In his most recent filing, only .73% of his donations were from small donors while he received $9,000 donations from banks." The DCCC added: "Congressman Hill is deep in the pockets of Washington's biggest corporate special interests, having taken nearly $900,000 from them throughout his career." [DCCC, 3/3/20]
An Arkansas Farmer Said He Could Lose Land That Has Been In His Family Since The Early 1800s. According to NPR, Arkansas farmer Scott Brown said: "Being the guy and the girl, the family, the husband and wife sitting on the porch going, this has been in our family since the Oklahoma land rush, since the early 1800s. And I'm the one that's going to lose all this." [NPR, 9/11/25]
Arkansas's Hunger Relief Alliance CEO Said Families Are "Making Decisions About Medicine, Doctors' Appointments, Health Insurance, Or What Foods To Purchase." According to KAIT, Sylvia Blain, CEO of the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance, said: "These are real people, real issues, and we all know these people. They are making decisions about medicine, doctors' appointments, health insurance, or what foods to purchase." [KAIT, 1/9/26]
30 Of Arkansas's 47 Rural Hospitals Are At Risk Of Closing. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, a July 2025 report found 30 of Arkansas's 47 rural hospitals at risk of closing, with 11 at "immediate risk." The Arkansas Center for Health Improvement noted that "Arkansas's expansion of Medicaid in 2014, which resulted in reduced uncompensated care costs for hospitals, has helped it avoid the rural hospital closings experienced in neighboring states." Hill's votes to cut Medicaid threaten this stability. [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 7/13/25]
Hundreds Of Constituents Confronted Hill At A Town Hall Where Audience Members Yelled "You Sold Us Out." According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, hundreds of people attended a joint town hall with Hill and Sen. Tom Cotton at the Embassy Suites in Little Rock on April 17, 2017. Hill was "shouted down several times by people who said he was not answering a question" about health care. [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 4/18/17]
A Constituent Told Hill She Grew Up "One Health Issue Away From Family Devastation." According to KUAR, Camille Richoux, a UAMS student from Camden, said at a protest outside Hill's Little Rock office: "I am from Camden in rural, southern Arkansas. I grew up without health insurance and know exactly what it's like to be one health issue away from family devastation. My mom actually filed bankruptcy when I was younger." [KUAR, 5/8/17]