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Ted Budd

REPUBLICAN U.S. Senator · North CarolinaSenate 2023–now · House 2017–2023 (NC-13)

Ted Budd is a Republican U.S. senator from North Carolina, in Congress since 2017, who voted with most Republicans on 99% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes.

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225Bills & resolutions sponsored115th–119th Congress (excludes amendments)
4Passed a chamberof 197 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)
0Became law115th–119th Congress · 0 this Congress
13Broke with partyof 890 yes/no votes, 119th (1.5%)
25Missed votesof 915 roll calls, 119th (2.7%)
$0Pork: own shareFY2024 earmarks: none on record

How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.

5 most recent votes

5 most recent bills

Top bills sponsored

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Committees

Elections Sen. Budd has won

Sen. Budd has won 3 U.S. House elections (2016–2020) and 1 U.S. Senate election (2022). Of the contested races, margins ran from 3.2 to 36.4 points.

010204060Margin of victory, points (axis starts at 0)2016, NC-13: won by 12.2 points2016NC-132018, NC-13: won by 6.0 points20182020, NC-13: won by 36.4 points20202022, NC Senate: won by 3.2 points2022NC Senate
Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed
Elections won4 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed
Closest win: 3.2 points2022, NC Senate
Won an open seat or took one from the other party2 of 4 elections (open seat or changed party)
Seat history, North Carolina’s 13th districtWinners, most recent three: Ted Budd (R) 2016–2020 → Wiley Nickel (D) 2022 → Brad Knott (R) 2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.
Seat history, North Carolina Senate (class 3)Winners in regular elections, most recent three: John Edwards (D) 1998 → Richard Burr (R) 2004–2016 → Ted Budd (R) 2022. The seat is next on the ballot in 2028.

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Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.

How has North Carolina done while Sen. Budd served?

2023 to 2024 in North Carolina: typical household income was up 1% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was about the same.

Typical household income · after inflationU.S. $81.6KNorth Carolina $74.0K
North Carolina: $72.9K in 2023 → $74.0K in 2024
North Carolina up 1%U.S. up 2%
Share of people below the poverty lineNorth Carolina 12.5%U.S. 12.1%
North Carolina: 12.8% in 2023 → 12.5% in 2024
North Carolina about the sameU.S. down 0.3 points
Share of workers looking for a jobU.S. 4.6%North Carolina 4.0%
North Carolina: 4.0% in 2023 → 4.0% in 2024
North Carolina about the sameU.S. up 0.3 points

Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Oxblood = state, grey = U.S.

While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in North Carolina during Budd’s time representing it (2023 to now). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.

North Carolina’s borders do not change, so every year is comparable. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.

See the full 20-year record →Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates (tables B19013, B17001, B23001) and BLS CPI-U-RS for inflation, retrieved October 18, 2026. “About the same” means the change is inside the 90% margins of error. Who held the seat: Congress.gov member service records, year level.

Local offices

Offices in the district or state, as listed in a public-domain community file. The Washington office is in the Contact section above.

Source: unitedstates/congress-legislators, district-offices file, September 24, 2026 ↗Licence: CC0 (public domain)
Evidence
File
legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries B001305-advance, B001305-raleigh, B001305-wilmington, B001305-asheville (4 offices)
Published at
https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-district-offices.json
File date
September 24, 2026 (server “last modified”)
Retrieved by PORKER
October 16, 2026
File SHA-256
8d698e92f8ebae3bdd387bfef239584164160e59d444ba1cbff46f32aa450f59
Licence
CC0 1.0 (public domain)

Read this first. This list is kept up by volunteers and may be out of date. Confirm hours and addresses on the member’s official site, www.budd.senate.gov.

Federal figures for North Carolina

Social Security and VA figures for this member’s state. The full table, sources and notes are on the state page.

2,385,531people receiving Social Security (OASDI) benefits, Dec 2025
Source: SSA, Table 1, April 2026 ↗
Evidence
Publisher
U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row
Table 1; sheet 'NC - OASDI', row 5
Data as of
December 2025; released April 2026
Licence
CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER
October 16, 2026
Full file
cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256
7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f
217,616people receiving SSI payments, Dec 2025
Source: SSA, Table 2, April 2026 ↗
Evidence
Publisher
U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row
Table 2; sheet 'NC - SSI', row 6
Data as of
December 2025; released April 2026
Licence
CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER
October 16, 2026
Full file
cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256
7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f
$9,383,164,970VA direct expenditures in the state, FY2025
Source: VA GDX FY2025, State Direct, September 2026 ↗
Evidence
Publisher
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
File
GDX_FY25.xlsx, sheet 'State Direct Exp', row 37, FIPS 37
Prepared
September 2026 (per the file’s data guide)
Boundaries
119th Congress districts
Licence
U.S. government work; no licence statement found on the VA page
Retrieved by PORKER
October 16, 2026
File SHA-256
1cf95d35c842b0064eacb3055db4441a775163919a3e90d21d30d4966aefaf25

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Official records on bills this member sponsored

119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 61 bills sponsored.

RecordBillsSource
Bills sponsored61Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 25, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a CBO cost estimate listed5See the 5 →
With a committee report listed2See the 2 →
With a Congress.gov note2See the 2 →
Evidence
How counted
Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 119th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
Fields
cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
PORKER copy refreshed
October 25, 2026 (nightly)

Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.

Votes on civilian nominations

237 confirmation roll calls this senator was on the roll for, 119th Congress. A tally of what the record shows, not a score.

Yea 233 (98%)Nay 1 (0%)Not voting 3 (1%)
Source: Senate roll call votes, as stored by PORKER ↗
Evidence
What is counted
Senate roll calls in the 119th Congress on the question of confirming a civilian nomination, as recorded on senate.gov. Cloture and procedural votes are not counted.
How it is matched
The vote record names the nomination number; the senator is matched by the Senate member id.
Not voting
Includes absences and any other reason. The record does not say why.

589 of the 617 confirmed civilian nominations show a roll-call vote on their latest-action line; the rest show a voice vote, unanimous consent or another method, with no individual votes. So this is only the roll-call subset. It says nothing about whether any vote was right or wrong.

All confirmed nominationsNominations hub

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Data as of Oct 25, 2026 (member stats) · latest recorded Senate vote Sep 30, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.