THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Senator Budd's $14.5 million fundraising profile is heavily weighted toward individual donors, who account for 85 percent of contributions, while PACs and committees comprise 15 percent of his funding base. Among industry-tied contributions, his donor patterns reflect concentrations in legal and financial services—Lawyers & Lobbyists (13 percent), Securities & Investment (10 percent), and Real Estate (9 percent)—with smaller shares from Health Services (8 percent) and Firearms (6 percent), a composition consistent with his individual donor employment sectors. Separately, he received $5.9 million in party and leadership-aligned contributions, and maintains no recorded stock trading disclosures on file.
Raised · all cycles$14.5M▼ 85% in ’24 vs ’22#12 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share13%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes10on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Budd (ribbon width = dollars) · right: their votes on bills classified as favoring vs limiting those sectors
“Favors / limits” is an AI classification of each bill's likely effect on the sector — a factual reading of the bill, not a claim about motive. Correlation, not causation. The named bills are in DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES? below.
DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES?
How Budd voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 10 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Budd's total from that donor sector — shown on each related vote, not a per-vote amount. Correlation between funding and votes, not causation; many factors shape any single vote.
TOP SOURCES
1$1.2M
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION
PAC
2$221K
NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND
PAC
3$203K
SENATE CONSERVATIVES FUND
PAC
4$201K
TED BUDD MAJORITY COMMITTEE 2028
candidate's own committee
5$186K
THE CONSERVATIVE CAUCUS DBA AMERICANS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY
PAC
COMMITTEES
Armed Services
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
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Grace Meng
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Chris Van Hollen
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