The Senate voted 53 to 47 to confirm Russell T. Vought — an architect of the ultraconservative Project 2025 policy agenda — to lead the White House budget office.

Wants to Know looked into it, and here's what we found. The offices for Senators Budd and Tillis both said all senate offices ...

North Carolina native Dan Driscoll is nominated for secretary of the Army despite serving less than four years in the ...

The Senate is poised to vote on whether to confirm President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Department of Transportation over the next four years. Trump tapped Sean Duffy, a former congressman, a ...

A GOP challenger to Sen. Thom Tillis in the 2026 primary announced his campaign Monday, joining the race to represent ...

The North Carolina Republican said he did his “due diligence” and deferred to the Senate Armed Services Committee endorsement ...

FIRST ON FOX: A Senate Republican is re-introducing legislation to make assaulting law enforcement a deportable offense for immigrants, amid a fresh immigration push in Congress. Sen. Ted Budd ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, North Carolina Senators Thom Tillis and Ted Budd applauded President Trump’s signing ... who have waited decades for federal recognition,” said Senator Budd. “Today’s action ...

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U.S. Senators Katie Britt, R-Ala., and Ted Budd’s, R-N.C., S.5, the Laken Riley Act, Monday passed the U.S. Senate by a vote of 64-35. The passage of this legislation is the most significant ...

TODAY — 9 a.m.: Senate confirmation hearing for Homeland Security Secretary-designate KRISTI NOEM. (This line from NBC’s walkup caught our eye: Noem’s “role as homeland security secretary ...