A Republican, Richard Hudson is the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 9th District, serving it since January 3, 2023 after first entering the House in 2013; his name is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for another term. H.R. 1 got through the House on May 22, 2025 by a single vote, 215 to 214, with Hudson in the majority, and his July 3 yes helped finish a law that leaves North Carolina $22.5 billion short in federal Medicaid dollars across ten years, per KFF.
About Richard Hudson
- Full name
- Richard Hudson, Republican, of Southern Pines; the House Clerk's member profile lists him for North Carolina's 9th District
- Current role
- House member for North Carolina's 9th District, sitting on the Committee on Energy and Commerce
- In office since
- House member since 2013; 9th District of North Carolina since January 3, 2023
- Seeking
- Another House term from North Carolina's 9th District, on the ballot November 3, 2026
- Key votes
- The House's February 25, 2025 adoption of the budget resolution, H.Con.Res. 14; passing H.R. 1 in the House on May 22, 2025; final passage of H.R. 1 on July 3, 2025; H.Res. 1156, commending the law, on April 16, 2026
What Richard Hudson Is Responsible For
- Medicaid. Without Hudson's May 22, 2025 yes, H.R. 1 loses in the House, and he was a yes again on July 3 for the final law. Its $22.5 billion federal Medicaid cut for North Carolina hits a district where 244,800 people were enrolled in 2025, and its work rule for expansion adults must be running by January 1, 2027.
- Health coverage. Hudson cast a final-passage vote for a law that, by KFF's projection, will leave 300,000 additional North Carolinians without health insurance in 2034; nationwide the count is 10 million, the CBO estimate KFF cites.
- Hospitals and Medicaid expansion. Hudson decided both 2025 budget votes, and his July 3, 2025 yes went to the final law with its limits on provider taxes and state-directed payments. In North Carolina that ends the HASP hospital payment program, an estimated $32 billion federal loss over a decade according to the North Carolina Medical Journal, and could leave the hospital assessments that pay for expansion short of covering it.
- Rural health. KFF estimates rural North Carolina's share of the federal Medicaid cut in the law Hudson voted for at $6.37 billion over a decade.
- Food assistance. Hudson's February 2025 vote was the margin for a budget plan setting a $230 billion floor on savings from the committee over SNAP, and the finished law takes $187 billion from SNAP through 2034, CBPP found. North Carolina counties are covering roughly $52 million in added SNAP overhead in the first year.
- Medicare. No law before the one Hudson voted for had ended Medicare for people already covered; this one does so for refugees, asylees and other lawfully present immigrants, cutting off those already identified on February 1, 2027 under CMS's proposed timeline. KFF counted 2,228,458 North Carolinians on Medicare in 2024.
- Nursing homes. Under the law Hudson voted for, the nursing-home staffing standard cannot be enforced before September 30, 2034, and Medicaid, which pays first for 60% of North Carolina's 35,329 nursing-facility residents, loses money.
- Social Security. Social Security's chief actuary puts the added program costs of the law Hudson voted for at $168.6 billion through 2034, and 168,880 residents of North Carolina's 9th District were drawing benefits in December 2024.
- The child tax credit. Columbia University's poverty researchers count about 52,000 children in North Carolina's 9th District, 31%, whose parents' earnings are too low for the full credit under the law Hudson voted for.
- Student loans. RAP, the Repayment Assistance Plan, was written into the House bill Hudson's May 2025 vote carried, and the Center for American Progress figures a North Carolina borrower switching to it from SAVE pays $1,767 more a year; the final law also shut Graduate PLUS to new borrowers.
- Taxes. By the Congressional Budget Office's household math, the law Hudson voted for is worth about $13,600 a year to the top tenth and costs the bottom about $1,200; on April 16, 2026 he voted to hail it as the "Working Families Tax Cuts."
- Jobs. Energy Innovation expects the law's energy provisions to mean "760,000 lost jobs by 2030" nationwide, and WRAL reported a Commonwealth Fund estimate that its Medicaid cuts could cost North Carolina as many as 30,000 jobs in a worst case; Hudson voted for the law on July 3, 2025.
- Energy bills. Repealing clean-energy credits, part of the law Hudson voted for, could raise energy spending for an average North Carolina household by about $490 a year by 2035, in Energy Innovation's estimate, and Rhodium Group's forecast for how far U.S. emissions fall by 2035, measured against 2005, shrank from 38 to 56 percent to 27 to 44 percent.
- Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood lost federal Medicaid payments for a year under the law Hudson voted for, and by its own report nearly 30 of its health centers shut during that year while its Medicaid visits dropped 25%, over 250,000 visits.
- Immigration enforcement money. Hudson voted for a law that "directs $170.7 billion toward immigration and border enforcement," in the American Immigration Council's tally, and by March 2026 "nearly 70,000 people are in ICE detention, the highest number in several years," NPR reported.
- The consumer bureau and silencers. Two more provisions of the law Hudson voted for: the cap on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau funding was cut from 12% of a Federal Reserve benchmark to 6.5%, leaving the bureau about $446 million in fiscal 2025, down from $823 million, by the Congressional Research Service's math, and the $200 tax on silencers and short-barreled guns went away, leading the ATF to drop their registration requirement on October 9, 2026.
How This Page on Richard Hudson Is Sourced
Each vote here links to the Clerk of the House roll call, for instance the May 22, 2025 House passage of H.R. 1. North Carolina and 9th District figures link to their sources, among them KFF's state Medicaid estimates and the Social Security Administration's district statistics, and national figures link to the Congressional Budget Office, KFF, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and others. The quick facts come from the Clerk's member profile and Ballotpedia, and this page was last updated on October 27, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions About Richard Hudson
What is Richard Hudson's record under Trump?
Under Trump, Richard Hudson cast deciding yes votes for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's 2025 budget resolution, in February and April, and for its House passage on May 22, then voted for the final law on July 3. KFF figures the ten-year federal Medicaid loss for North Carolina at $22.5 billion; the law also takes $187 billion from SNAP and saddles Social Security with $168.6 billion in extra costs. He then voted on April 16, 2026 to commend its tax policies.
Was Richard Hudson the deciding vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act?
On House passage, yes: Richard Hudson was in the 215-member majority on May 22, 2025, when one member voted present and 214 voted no, so a no from him sinks the bill. Final passage, 218 to 214 on July 3, 2025, had his vote too.
What does North Carolina lose in Medicaid funding because of Richard Hudson's votes?
Richard Hudson's votes helped pass a law that KFF expects to drain $22.5 billion of federal Medicaid money from North Carolina over a decade, 11% of what the state would otherwise draw, with $6.37 billion of that coming out of rural areas. KFF also projects 300,000 more North Carolinians uninsured in 2034.
How do Richard Hudson's votes affect people in North Carolina's 9th District?
Richard Hudson's 9th District had 244,800 Medicaid enrollees in 2025, about 52,000 children kept from the full child tax credit by the law he voted for, and 168,880 residents drawing Social Security at the end of 2024. The law's Medicaid cuts, its credit rules and its added Social Security costs land on those households.
Did Richard Hudson vote to cut SNAP?
Yes: Richard Hudson's deciding vote on February 25, 2025 adopted a budget plan demanding $230 billion or more from SNAP's committee, and on July 3, 2025 he voted for the law, which removes $187 billion from SNAP through 2034. In June 2025, CBPP estimated that 47,000 North Carolinians ages 55 to 64 were at risk of losing SNAP under the Senate Agriculture Committee's proposal, which, like the law, extended the time limit to that age group.
When do the changes in the law Richard Hudson voted for take effect in North Carolina?
The law Richard Hudson voted for phases in across North Carolina: SNAP work-rule changes since December 1, 2025; higher county costs to run SNAP since October 1, 2026; Medicaid work reporting by January 1, 2027; a falling ceiling on the provider taxes that fund the state's expansion, from October 1, 2027; and a state share of SNAP benefits, about $140 million in fiscal year 2028, by CBPP's estimate.
Last updated: 2026-10-27