Greg Murphy (NC-03) Research Report
Significant Findings
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Greg Murphy Voted Repeatedly To Increase Costs On North Carolina Farmers And Families
5 findings
- Murphy voted three times to keep tariffs in place that threatened farming in Eastern North Carolina and raised prices on essential goods for North Carolina families.
- Murphy voted against the Lower Food and Fuel Costs Act, which would make fertilizer more affordable and boost meatpacking competition.
- 2025: Murphy voted to overturn a rule that would have limited bank overdraft fees to $5 and would have saved consumers about $5 billion in annual fees.
- 2022: Murphy voted against $28 million in emergency funding to address the baby formula shortage as more than 40% of baby formulas were out of stock in stores across the U.S.
- Murphy voted against providing Pitt County with anti-poverty funding and opposed raising the federal minimum wage.
Greg Murphy Was On A Mission To Cut Medicaid And Make Health Care More Expensive For North Carolinians, And Claimed “No One’s Going To Be Thrown Off The Medicaid System Per Se” Before Voting For Trillion Dollar Cuts To The Program
6 findings
- 2025: Murphy voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill, defended what he called “reforms” to Medicaid in the bill, said “no one’s going to be thrown off the Medicaid system per se,” and said as a physician he did not think some of his Medicaid patients were actually disabled.
- The One Big Beautiful Bill enacted the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, slashing local hospital revenue, and was projected to kick more than 528,000 people in North Carolina off their health insurance.
- The One Big Beautiful Bill let ACA tax credits expire, driving up health care costs for more than 975,000 individuals in North Carolina on marketplace plans.
- 2022: Murphy voted against extending ACA premium tax credits, acknowledged premiums would increase, and later said extending the tax credits “does nothing to lower the cost of healthcare in America.”
- Murphy opposed Medicaid expansion, which covered more than 727,000 North Carolinians, voted against appropriations bills that extended authorizations for Medicaid, and said he supported using block grants for Medicaid, which could mean fewer poor North Carolinians getting covered.
- Murphy repeatedly voted against lowering the cost of prescription drugs.
Greg Murphy Voted For The One Big Beautiful Bill, Which Threatened Food Assistance For More Than 540,000 Households In North Carolina While Adding $3.4 Trillion To The National Debt And Slashing Taxes For Multimillionaires Like Himself
5 findings
- 2025: Murphy voted twice for the One Big Beautiful Bill.
- The One Big Beautiful Bill enacted the largest SNAP cuts in history, threatening food assistance for more than 540,000 households in North Carolina.
- The One Big Beautiful Bill cut crucial health and nutrition resources for rural Americans.
- Murphy called the national debt “our nation’s greatest existential threat,” but voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill, which would add $3.4 trillion to the national debt.
- Murphy was a multimillionaire, and he voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill, which gave billions in tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy at the expense of working families.
Greg Murphy Had A History Of Opposing Efforts To Increase The Number Of Black Doctors, Voting Against Anti-Discrimination Protections, And Using Insensitive Racial Rhetoric
8 findings
- Murphy introduced a bill to eliminate scholarships for aspiring Black doctors and cut off federal funding to medical schools that had initiatives to address systemic racism.
- Murphy twice introduced the EDUCATE Act, which was opposed by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
- The EDUCATE Act would eliminate scholarships and affinity groups for students of specific races, which helped Black students attend medical school.
- The EDUCATE Act would cut off federal funding to medical schools that had initiatives to address systemic racial disparities.
- When it came to rural representation, Murphy introduced a bill to preserve medical education slots for rural communities.
- Murphy claimed DEI preached that he could not care for people of a different race and said he was taught in medical school that “we have different issues that deal with different races.”
- Murphy voted against restoring civil rights protections for disparate impact discrimination.
- Murphy used insensitive racial rhetoric, including saying, “Black America is understanding they don’t need to feed at the Democratic trough anymore” and calling DEI “the most divisive, horrible cancer” in medicine.
- After Trump won the 2024 election, Murphy said, “I think Black America is understanding they don’t need to feed at the Democratic trough anymore.”
- Murphy repeatedly said DEI was a cancer, calling DEI “the most divisive, horrible cancer, if you will, that could ever happen in medicine.”
- Murphy said DEI was “making Western Civilization less competitive” and “polluting what is the last bastion of really I believe excellence in this country.”
- Murphy said twice that DEI was “the greatest mass peer pressure event since the Spanish Inquisition.”
- In discussing racial disparities in the medical profession, Murphy said, “Hey take control of your communities,” and he responded to criticism over racism by mentioning his patients of color.
- Murphy made offensive comments about Black women, including saying vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris was “only picked for her color and her race.”
- Murphy echoed the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory when he said Democrats “opened our borders to change the political landscape.”
- Murphy voted against the CROWN Act to prohibit race-based hair discrimination.
- Murphy voted to eliminate DEI offices in the military, force arbitration of workplace civil rights disputes, and against requiring publicly traded companies to report diversity.
- Murphy said “Confederate war memorials have come to mean different things to different people” and said he wanted to avoid “pulling off scabs of the past.”
Greg Murphy Was Bad For Veterans, Repeatedly Voting Against Protecting Veterans And Against Funding The Department Of Veterans Affairs
3 findings
- 2025: In the wake of DOGE firing thousands of staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Murphy said he could not guarantee that veterans’ benefits and care would not be affected.
- 2020-2025: Murphy repeatedly voted against protecting veterans and military servicemembers, including voting twice to block $12 billion for veteran health care.
- 2019-2022: Murphy repeatedly voted against appropriations bills that included billions of dollars for the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense.
In The State Legislature, Greg Murphy Voted Three Times To Limit The Amount Of Compensation North Carolinians Could Receive In Nuisance Lawsuits From Commercial Hog Farms
3 findings
- 2017: In the state legislature, Murphy voted three times to limit the amount of compensation plaintiffs could receive in civil nuisance lawsuits against commercial hog farms.
- People in rural communities near industrial farms filed nuisance lawsuits to protect themselves from health and environmental risks.
- North Carolinians who lived near hog farms complained about foul stenches, flies, and nausea.
Greg Murphy Was Part Of A Legislative Group That Planned To Cut Social Security Benefits, Raise The Retirement Age, And Turn Medicare Into A Voucher Program
3 findings
- Murphy was a member of the Republican Study Committee (RSC).
- 2023: The RSC’s fiscal blueprint would raise the age future retirees could claim full Social Security benefits from 67 to 69 and cut benefits by 13% for people who retired in 2033 or later.
- 2024: The RSC budget called for converting Medicare to a “premium support model” that would turn Medicare into a voucher program.
Greg Murphy Repeatedly Voted Against Public Safety, Including Voting Against Helping Local Law Enforcement Solve Cold Cases, Against Reauthorizing The National Domestic Violence Hotline, And Against Banning Police Chokeholds
2 findings
- Murphy voted against helping local law enforcement invest in technology to solve cold cases, reauthorizing the national domestic violence hotline, and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.
- Murphy voted against police reforms including banning chokeholds, ending qualified immunity, and developing training on de-escalation.
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