Ted Budd
Republican · NC · U.S. Senate
Bio
Theodore Paul Budd is an American businessman and politician serving since 2023 as the junior United States senator for North Carolina. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 13th congressional district from 2017 to 2023.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 9.6 years
- Chambers
- House 6y, Senate 3.6y
- First took office
- 2017 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 72 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 54
- Senate class
- 3 · junior senator
- Advance, NC · 336-941-4470
- Raleigh, NC · 984-349-5061
- Wilmington, NC · 910-218-7600
- Asheville, NC · 828-333-4130
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $4.7M – $13.3M
- Liabilities
- $380k – $850k
- Net worth
- $3.9M – $13.0M
- Since 2019
- +$2.4M
Largest holdings in the 2021 filing · 75 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Ted Budd's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Ted Budd (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Buddsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Joint Economic Committeecenter · 20 members
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurshipcenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Budd's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
F-15EXs Are Headed to Seymour Johnson AFBThe Secretary of the U.S. Air Force confirmed that Seymour Johnson AFB is the planned recipient of the F-15EX Eagle II aircraft included in the proposed Fiscal Year 2027 budget. The Secretary of the U.S. Air Force Troy Meink confirmed in a letter to Senator T…
Theaviationist.com · August 21, 2026
American Tributes – Ted Budd: 'The Founding Fathers Rejected Overreach and Overregulation'In a video for Breitbart News's American Tributes project, Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) spoke about how the United States "honors tradition and embraces innovation." Budd explained how the same spirit which led the Founding Fathers to reject "overreach and over regul…
Breitbart News · June 28, 2026- The U.S. Senate Just Honored Kyle Busch With a Bipartisan Resolution Recognizing His Record 234 Wins
Kyle Busch’s name now lives in the official record of the United States Senate. On June 17, 2026, the Senate passed Senate Resolution 776, a bipartisan measure honoring the life of the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, who died at 41 in May. The resolution…
Yahoo Entertainment · June 24, 2026 
Ted BuddThe North Carolina senator shares why the U.S. needs to remain globally competitive in science and technology
Scientific American · June 16, 2026
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