Ted Budd represents North Carolina's 13th Congressional District and is serving his third term in the 117th United States Congress.
Ted brings an outsider’s perspective to Washington, having never held elective office. When an opportunity presented itself after redistricting opened up North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District in 2016, Ted decided to run and bring a businessman’s outlook to our nation’s capital.
Ted sits on the Financial Services Committee, where he uses his real world experience to roll back the restrictive regulations that strangle job creation in our country. Working at a young age on his family’s cattle and chicken farm and for their janitorial and landscaping business, Ted learned the importance of work ethic and common sense decision making. He brings his strong belief in God, family, and country to his job each and every day.
Before we do anything else, we must secure our Southern Border with Mexico. I’ve visited the border and seen the sorry state of our patchwork of physical barriers. I’ve spoken with border patrol agents who asked for our help. We need to build a wall and keep drugs and dangerous criminals out of our country, period. We also should not be sending federal funds to “sanctuary cities” who refuse to enforce our immigration laws.
We need to draw a clear line between legal and illegal immigration. We want folks to come into our country the right way, based on merit. Our country must still be a land of opportunity, but only for those who come to our shores the legal, American way.