The only member of Congress who still sees patients told insurance CEOs he'd "turn all of you guys into dust." He is right about them. He also voted Aye on Trump's budget bill, which state health officials say costs North Carolina $49.9 billion in federal Medicaid money over a decade.
Nine months into the job, Brad Knott had held three town halls — all of them by telephone. On the third, a constituent from the small town of Angier asked how he could support the Medicaid cuts. He said lawmakers 'stand ready' to make changes if needed.
FEC filings show Brad Knott's brother put $1,735,000 into The American Foundations Committee. His father, his sister, and his brother the Senate chief of staff gave more. The PAC spent $1.3 million promoting him and $1.06 million attacking two other Republicans.
A former federal prosecutor kept his voter registration at his parents' house for nine years after buying his own home. He called it a paperwork issue. In April 2025 he voted to make every American prove citizenship to register.
On June 9, 2026, the House passed S. 2 by 214 to 212. At that margin every single Republican yes vote was the deciding vote. Here are the 187 still in their races who have report cards on this site.
H.R. 38 would let residents of the 29 states with no permit requirement carry concealed guns in North Carolina — no class, no live fire, no sheriff. The nation's largest police union says it also strips officers of the power to check.
In a closed-door meeting, the NRCC chairman advised his members to swap in-person town halls for tele-town halls and Facebook Lives. Then he held one himself — 50 minutes, 11 screened questions, and a Medicaid denial he voted to disprove 72 days later.
The man in charge of electing House Republicans says voters remember $9 gas and that prices are down. The record national average was $5.02. Gas was $4.45 the week he said it, and North Carolina diesel set an all-time high in April.
He voted no on the infrastructure law in 2021. In 2024 it sent $242 million to replace the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge in his own district. When Trump froze the money in 2025, the chairman of the House Highways Subcommittee called the freeze a hunt for waste and fraud.
