Nikki Budzinski

Democrat · IL-13 · U.S. House

Bio

Nicole Jai Budzinski is an American trade unionist and politician. She has served as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 13th congressional district since 2023, and is a member of the Democratic Party.

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Record of service

In office: 3.6 years
First took office: 2023 (2 terms)
Seniority: 315 of 437 by time served
Age: 49

District offices

Champaign, IL · 217-305-6991
Decatur, IL · 217-859-5313
Springfield, IL · 217-814-2880
Collinsville, IL · 618-212-7333

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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

2021

$1.1M

2022

$642k

2023

$460k

2024

$577k

2025

$708k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $479k – $1.7M
Liabilities: $250k – $500k
Net worth: −$21k – $1.4M
Since 2021: −$397k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 46 assets reported

Traditional IRA-1 ⇒ American Funds Investment Co of America A (AIVSX)$50k – $100k

Traditional IRA-1 ⇒ Washington Mutual Invs Fd Cl A Shs (AWSHX)$50k – $100k

JP Morgan Chase Bank Accounts$15k – $50k

United Food and Commercial Worker International Union Pension Plan$15k – $50k

Individual Single Account ⇒ Fundamental Investors, Class A Shares (ANCFX)$15k – $50k

Individual Single Account ⇒ JPMorgan Equity Income Fund A (OIEIX)$15k – $50k

Individual Single Account ⇒ JPMorgan Mid Cap Equity Fund Cl A (JCMAX)$15k – $50k

Individual Single Account ⇒ Washington Mutual Invs Fd Cl A Shs (AWSHX)$15k – $50k

Roth IRA-1 ⇒ American Funds Investment Co of America A (AIVSX)$15k – $50k

Roth IRA-1 ⇒ Fundamental Investors, Class A Shares (ANCFX)$15k – $50k

Roth IRA-1 ⇒ Washington Mutual Invs Fd Cl A Shs (AWSHX)$15k – $50k

Traditional IRA-1 ⇒ AMCAP Fund, Class A Shares A (AMCPX)$15k – $50k

Traditional IRA-1 ⇒ American Funds Capital World Growth & Income Fund Class A Shares (CWGI$15k – $50k

Traditional IRA-1 ⇒ American Funds New Economy Fund A (ANEFX)$15k – $50k

Traditional IRA-1 ⇒ Fundamental Investors, Class A Shares (ANCFX)$15k – $50k

Traditional IRA-1 ⇒ JP Morgan Mid Cap Value Fund-A Share Class (JAMCX)$15k – $50k

Traditional IRA-1 ⇒ JPMorgan Mid Cap Equity Fund Cl A (JCMAX)$15k – $50k

Traditional IRA-1 ⇒ JPMorgan Mid Cap Growth A (OSGIX)$15k – $50k

Traditional IRA-1 ⇒ JPMorgan U.S. Value Fund Class A (VGRIX)$15k – $50k

Traditional IRA-1 ⇒ The Income Fund of America, Class A Shares (AMECX)$15k – $50k

Traditional IRA-2 ⇒ AMCAP Fund, Class A Shares A (AMCPX)$15k – $50k

Traditional IRA-2 ⇒ American Balanced Fund, Class A Shs (ABALX)$15k – $50k

Traditional IRA-2 ⇒ American Funds Investment Co of America A (AIVSX)$15k – $50k

Traditional IRA-2 ⇒ American Funds New Economy Fund A (ANEFX)$15k – $50k

Traditional IRA-2 ⇒ JPMorgan Mid Cap Equity Fund Cl A (JCMAX)$15k – $50k

Traditional IRA-2 ⇒ Washington Mutual Invs Fd Cl A Shs (AWSHX)$15k – $50k

State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois$1k – $15k

Individual Single Account ⇒ American Balanced Fund, Class A Shs (ABALX)$1k – $15k

Individual Single Account ⇒ American Funds Capital World Growth & Income Fund Class A Shar$1k – $15k

Individual Single Account ⇒ American Funds New Economy Fund A (ANEFX)$1k – $15k

Individual Single Account ⇒ John Hancock Fundamental Large Cap Core Fund Class A (TAGRX)$1k – $15k

Individual Single Account ⇒ JPMorgan Large Cap Growth Fund A (OLGAX)$1k – $15k

Individual Single Account ⇒ JPMorgan Small Cap Blend Fund Class A (VSCOX)$1k – $15k

Individual Single Account ⇒ LAKE CNTY IL SCH DIST GO$1k – $15k

Individual Single Account ⇒ New Perspective Fund, Class A Shares (ANWPX)$1k – $15k

Individual Single Account ⇒ The Growth Fund of America Class A Shares (AGTHX)$1k – $15k

Roth IRA-1 ⇒ AMCAP Fund, Class A Shares A (AMCPX)$1k – $15k

Roth IRA-1 ⇒ American Funds Capital World Growth & Income Fund Class A Shares (CWGIX)$1k – $15k

Roth IRA-1 ⇒ American Funds SMALLCAP World A (SMCWX)$1k – $15k

Roth IRA-1 ⇒ Hartford Capital Appreciation Fund - Class A (ITHAX)$1k – $15k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.30

Healthcare

D+0.74

Immigration & Border

D+0.35

Guns

D+0.46

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.68

Crime & Policing

R+0.12

Defense & Veterans

R+0.11

Economy & Labor

D+0.45

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.39

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.71

Education

D+0.86

Government & Democracy

D+0.49

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.09

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

Nikki Budzinski's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

86%Closest

Green Party

78%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

74%

Communist Party USA

73%

Libertarian Party

59%

Republican Party

46%

On the political map

Nikki Budzinski (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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 Budzinskisits 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.

Caucuses

New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Budzinski'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.