Monitoring US Senator Ted Budd

 US Senator Ted Budd(R) of North Carolina has been in the Senate since 2017.

The Senator's website provides options for ways to contact him, including a web-based form and a list of his offices and phone numbers across the state: https://www.budd.senate.gov/contact/

This link to the federal website Congress.gov lists legislation associated with Senator Budd: https://www.congress.gov/member/ted-budd/B001305?s=1&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Ted+Budd%22%2C%22congress%22%3A%22119%22%7D

As our time permits, we will highlight some of his most alarming votes and actions on this page, though a quick peek at recently introduced legislation suggests that there are many, most unified by what appears to be a philosophy that Americans cannot be trusted to make any decisions for themselves anymore.

Recent alarming votes:

1. Budd voted yes on the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Sciences. Among other controversial and alarming qualities, Kennedy has worked for years to undermine vaccines, which historically have saved lives and reduced suffering for Americans. Polio survivor Sen. Mitch McConnell strongly opposed this nominee. With this vote, Budd appears to support increasing the number of children who die of preventable diseases like measles.

2. Budd voted yes on the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence. Gabbard has no intelligence experience and felt comfortable meeting with (and refused to criticize) Bashar al-Assad, whose family (until Dec 2024) "ruled over Syria with an iron fist, with long documented reports of mass incarceration, torture, extra-judicial killings, and atrocities against their own people" (CNN). Even Sen Mitch McConnell could not vote for someone with a record of what he called "lapses in judgment." With this vote, Budd appears to be comfortable undermining our national security.

(more will be added as time permits)