R-NC·U.S. Senate

Ted Budd

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$16.1M

raised· #14 in party

votes recorded

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trade disclosures

votes with party· loyal

TRAIL AI

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Budd's $16.1 million fundraising profile relies heavily on PAC and committee sources, which account for 65 percent of his contributions, while individual donors comprise 35 percent; political party and leadership money totaled $6.4 million separately. Industry-tied contributions show distributed support across Firearms (10%), Securities & Investment (10%), Commercial Banks (8%), Insurance (8%), and Lawyers & Lobbyists (7%), with individual employed donors concentrated in Securities & Investment, Lawyers & Lobbyists, and Real Estate. No stock trade disclosures are on file for the senator.

Based on FEC donor data and voting records. Statistical patterns only — does not imply causation.

DONOR MIX

Industry shares of CLASSIFIED contributions only · the long tail of small-dollar individual donors isn't tagged

$9.9M

tagged $

Party & Leadership39.2%

Single-Issue Advocacy37.5%

Firearms4.7%

Securities & Investment4.6%

Commercial Banks3.7%

Insurance3.6%

Lawyers & Lobbyists3.5%

Health Services3.2%

How to read this: percentages are shares of the 61% of contributions we can trace to an industry (via PAC names and donor employers). Most political money comes from small online donors who don't list an employer, so it can't be traced — that portion isn't shown here.

DATA SOURCES

Financial: FEC · 2022–2026 cycles

Profile: Congress.gov

Votes: House Clerk / Senate · 2021–present

Lobbying: Senate LDA · 2017–present

Trades: STOCK Act disclosures · live ingestion rebuilding

117th–119th Congress. Statistical patterns only.

DONOR MIX

Industry shares of CLASSIFIED contributions only · hover a slice for detail

$16.1M

classified

Party & Leadership39.2%

Single-Issue Advocacy37.5%

Firearms4.7%

Securities & Investment4.6%

Commercial Banks3.7%

Insurance3.6%

Lawyers & Lobbyists3.5%

Health Services3.2%

TOP SOURCES

Employers (individuals) & PACs · excludes aggregators

Individual Donors (no employer)

individuals

$2,071,106

BUDD NC VICTORY FUND

PAC

$1,673,516

AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION

PAC

$1,211,707

BUDD NC VICTORY FUND 2028

PAC

$347,303

SENATE CONSERVATIVES FUND

PAC

$305,397

CLUB FOR GROWTH PAC

PAC

$291,731

BUDD, THEODORE MR.

other

$275,000

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND

PAC

$226,248

TED BUDD MAJORITY COMMITTEE 2028

PAC

$201,036

THE CONSERVATIVE CAUCUS DBA AMERICANS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY

PAC

$186,385

BUDD FOR NC SENATE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FUND 2022

PAC

$138,900

TAKE BACK THE SENATE

PAC

$123,378

RECENT ACTIVITY

Most recent recorded contributions · PAC and itemized individual donors

DAVIS, HOLT F MR. (RETIRED)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$50

BERGMAN, PAMELA D (SELF-EMPLOYED)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$52

CASTRO, MIGUEL (RETIRED)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$100

WILLIAMS, MICHAEL (THOLOS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$1,000

YOUNG, HEILY (RETIRED)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$100

BURNETTE, JANE (CARBIDE SAWS)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$50

SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS

Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.

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Party & LeadershipSingle-Issue Advocacy

HOW WE CALCULATE THIS

Donor Mix Donut

Shows PAC contributions and employer-attributed individual donations grouped by industry — as a share of classified giving only. Contributions that could not be matched to an industry are excluded from the donut but included in the dollar totals above. Advocacy/ideological PACs are excluded from industry breakdown.

What are aggregators?

WinRed, ActBlue, and similar platforms bundle contributions from many individual donors before passing them to campaigns. Because these don't represent a single entity's interests, they are excluded from the Donor Mix and Top Sources views — but they are counted in total fundraising figures.

Data sources

FEC Schedule A & bulk PAC filings · 2022–2026 cycles · Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings · 2017–present · Congress.gov / House Clerk voting records.

Important disclaimer

All data is sourced from public records. Analysis reflects statistical patterns only — it does not imply corruption, intent, or quid pro quo. Donor relationships show financial alignment, not control. Capitol Trail makes no claims about the motivations or character of any individual or organization.

MORANO, SUSAN (SELF-EMPLOYED)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

KAPLAN, JOEL (META PLATFORMS INC)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,603

MORGAN STANLEY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,000

ZARRIELLO, RICHARD (RETIRED)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$250

AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC SEPARATE SEGREGATED FUND (AMAZON PAC)

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

JARVIS, ALEIX (THOLOS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$1,000

INTUIT INC. 21ST CENTURY LEADERSHIP FUND

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

BELANGER, BETHANY (RETIRED)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$48

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No historical stock trade disclosures on file for this member.

WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT

Lobbying is when companies, unions, and trade associations pay firms to influence laws and regulations — and the law requires them to disclose it. Every quarter, registrants file a report with Congress detailing who hired them, how much they spent, and which issues they pushed.

This page filters those filings to the industries that also fund this member's campaign. If commercial banks gave 30% of this member's donations and also filed 5,000 lobbying reports on bank-related issues last year, that's a financial pattern worth knowing about. It does not mean the member is corrupt — it means the industries paying to elect them are also paying to influence the laws they vote on.

79,575

Lobbying filings

that overlap top donor industries

$12.2B

Reported spend

across those filings

Donor industries

tracked here

2017–2026

Years covered

10 years

LOBBYING BY DONOR INDUSTRY

only industries that also fund this member

Each row = an industry that donated to this member AND has lobbyists pushing on Congress. Bar width = reported lobbying spend.

Health Services

46,475 filings$4.9B

Securities & Investment

19,298 filings$4.2B

Commercial Banks

8,039 filings$1.3B

Insurance

4,832 filings$1.2B

TOP LOBBYING FIRMS

The firms doing the most spending in this member's donor industries

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.

14 filings

$242.0M

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

12 filings

$159.5M

PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA

13 filings

$113.6M

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

14 filings

$91.7M

THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE, INC.

13 filings

$76.3M

Legal Services

931 filings$571.0M

LOBBYING SPEND BY YEAR

How much lobbyists in this member's donor industries have reported spending each year

2017

19,732$2.3B

2018

4,477$556.7M

2019

4,428$507.1M

2020

7,124$669.8M

2021

4,772$496.1M

2022

4,857$542.9M

2023

6,477$695.3M

2024

6,716$684.2M

2025

5,744$700.8M

2026

6,461$771.6M

YEARspend ($)filingsreported $

GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY

15 filings

AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

13 filings

$68.7M

AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC

14 filings

$56.3M

SOURCES & CAVEATS

Data: LDA (Lobbying Disclosure Act) quarterly filings · 2017–present

Amounts are self-reported by registrants. Issue codes are mapped from the LDA's 80+ general issue codes to our 19-industry taxonomy.

An industry showing up here means it both (a) funds this member's campaign and (b) lobbies Congress on issues affecting it. That overlap is a factual pattern, not proof of any quid-pro-quo.