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Thom Tillis

RepublicanThom Tillis

U.S. Senator · North Carolina

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Senator from North Carolina

12 tracked promises, 1 rated

North Carolina

North Carolina

Represents North Carolina statewide

100/100
Trust rating
Strongly keeps promises
100
0 · Broken50 · Mixed100 · Kept
A transparent rescale of the Integrity Score (+100) to 0–100, aggregated from 1 rated promise. Never an opaque single score. Provisional — based on 1 rated promise they could act on; a settled rating needs at least 5.
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How they won their seat

Thom Tillis won the 2020 U.S. Senate election in North Carolina with 48.7% of the vote (2,665,598 votes).

48.7%
Win share
2,665,598
Votes for winner
5,474,952
Total cast
  • Thom Tillis · Republican48.7%
  • Cal Cunningham · Democrat46.9%
  • Shannon W. Bray · Libertarian3.1%
  • 1 Other Candidate1.2%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Thom Tillis's record includes sponsorship of the National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support, and Community Outreach Act and the Housing Supply Expansion Act of 2025. His involvement in various bipartisan efforts, such as the Disaster Related Extension of Deadlines Act, indicates specific actions taken in the areas of law enforcement, housing, and disaster relief. Focus areas (from the record): Law Enforcement · Housing · Disaster Relief · Bipartisanship · Judiciary · Healthcare Alignment with declared positions: Mixed. Tillis's sponsored bills are supported by evidence, including the National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance Act and the Housing Supply Expansion Act. However, there are discrepancies, such as his opposition to the SAVE America Act, which contrasts with his commitment to immigration enforcement. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of his sponsored bills; There is no information on his unlogged work or informal influence. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Thom Tillis has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Showing 2022. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.

Activity in office

What Thom Tillis has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.

Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

17bills sponsored
17 awaiting status
05101520Bills2022: 17 awaiting status172022

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 0 sponsored bills became law

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$8.1M
Raised, 20222026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$1.3M$2.5M$3.8M$5M2022: raised $931K2022: spent $1.0M20222024: raised $2.5M2024: spent $972K20242026: raised $4.7M2026: spent $3.3M20262022: cash on hand $02024: cash on hand $02026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $120K (3%)Large individual (itemized): $2.5M (61%)61%PAC / committee: $1.5M (36%)36%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$120K3%
  • Large individual (itemized)$2.5M61%
  • PAC / committee$1.5M36%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Source: Congress.gov.

Integrity

Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown

+100 · based on 1 rated promise

  • Fully Kept 1

Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.

Integrity over time

In office since Jan 2015 · 1 rated promise

The line steps at each recorded assessment and holds between them; it ends on the current published score.

−100 worked against0+100 kept
Integrity Score by assessment date. Score ranges from −100 (worked against) to +100 (kept).
DateIntegrity Score
Jul 2026100
Jan 2027100 (current, held from last rating)

Promise status over time

How the tracked promise record has evolved.

1 tracked
  • Kept1
  • Against0
  • No opportunity0
  • In progress0
011Jul 2026

Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.

Not yet scoredNot yet rated 11— tracked, but not counted toward Integrity

Topic coverage

12 promises across 12 topics

What this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.

  • Banking and Financial Services1
  • Disaster Relief and Taxes1
  • Elections and Voting1
  • Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy1
  • Governance and Congressional Conduct1
  • Healthcare and Medicaid1
  • Healthcare and Opioid Crisis1
  • Housing1
  • Immigration1
  • Innovation and Intellectual Property1
  • Judiciary and Judicial Nominations1
  • Law Enforcement and Public Safety1
Kept Worked against No opportunity / not yet scored

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)975%
  • Reputable news325%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

10
23
35
43
51

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

12 tracked promises

Fully Keptmedium confidence

Committed to preserving the Senate 'blue slip' tradition for judicial nominees and to opposing efforts to abolish it, which functionally requires home-state senators' sign-off before certain nominees advance.

Judiciary and Judicial NominationsSpecific · measurable
Not yet rated

Stated he would not support the 2025 Senate reconciliation bill in its then-current form, citing projected Medicaid funding cuts to North Carolina, and called for returning to the House's Medicaid approach.

Healthcare and MedicaidSpecific · measurablePromised Jun 2025
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Vowed to use every procedural tool available to him to slow down or stall the SAVE America Act (a voter-ID/election-eligibility bill) if it reaches the Senate through a House reconciliation package.

Elections and VotingSpecific · measurablePromised Jul 2026
SourcesWashington Examiner
Not yet rated

Pledged to oppose the confirmation of any Federal Reserve nominee, including for the Fed Chair vacancy, until the Justice Department's criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell was fully resolved.

Federal Reserve and Monetary PolicySpecific · measurablePromised Jan 2026
Not yet rated

Introduced a discussion draft of the Ensuring Fair Access to Banking Act to prohibit banks and federal regulators from denying financial services to lawful businesses for politically motivated reasons.

Banking and Financial ServicesPromised Oct 2025
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Pledged, after announcing he would not seek re-election, to serve out the remaining roughly 18 months of his term and to vote independently on the merits ('call the balls and strikes as I see fit').

Governance and Congressional ConductPromised Jun 2025
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Committed to making passage of patent eligibility reform (the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act, which he reintroduced with Sen. Chris Coons) one of his top legislative priorities.

Innovation and Intellectual PropertyPromised May 2025
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Introduced the bipartisan Alternatives to PAIN Act (with Sen. Mark Kelly) to ensure Medicare seniors have access to non-opioid, non-addictive pain treatments as an alternative to opioids.

Healthcare and Opioid CrisisPromised Feb 2025
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Committed to working with President Trump to end illegal immigration and to advance the Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act, which would let certain crime victims sue jurisdictions that decline lawful ICE detainer requests.

ImmigrationPromised Jan 2025
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Introduced the bipartisan National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support, and Community Outreach Act (with Sen. Richard Blumenthal) to fund officer safety, wellness, and public-education programs through the National Law Enforcement Museum and Memorial.

Law Enforcement and Public SafetyPromised Jan 2026
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Committed to supporting the Housing Supply Expansion Act of 2025, which modernizes the federal definition of manufactured housing to expand affordable housing supply and options.

HousingPromised Jul 2025
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Introduced the bipartisan Disaster Related Extension of Deadlines Act (with Sen. Raphael Warnock) to give Hurricane Helene and other disaster victims additional time to claim tax refunds they are owed.

Disaster Relief and TaxesPromised Apr 2025
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived

Verified record

222 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.

Campaign financeas of Mar 31, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $8,113,422, spent $5,270,439, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Sponsored legislation

Showing the 12 most recent of 222 sponsored measures.

Voting record

Total votes
890
Yea
558
Nay
225
Present
0
Not voting
107

Full voting record

890 votes
  • PN1078Yea
  • PN1078Yea
  • HR6500Not voting
  • HR6500Not voting
  • PN73011Yea
  • PN73011Yea
  • PN932Yea
  • PN932Not voting
  • SRES817Not voting
120 of 890
Page 1 / 45

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

14 positions on record

The record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.

  • Judiciary and Judicial NominationsStated position

    Committed to preserving the Senate 'blue slip' tradition for judicial nominees and to opposing efforts to abolish it, which functionally requires home-state senators' sign-off before certain nominees advance.

    SourcesPBS NewsHour
    View position & sources
  • Elections and VotingStated position

    Vowed to use every procedural tool available to him to slow down or stall the SAVE America Act (a voter-ID/election-eligibility bill) if it reaches the Senate through a House reconciliation package.

    SourcesWashington Examiner
    View position & sources
  • Law Enforcement and Public SafetyStated position

    Introduced the bipartisan National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support, and Community Outreach Act (with Sen. Richard Blumenthal) to fund officer safety, wellness, and public-education programs through the National Law Enforcement Museum and Memorial.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Federal Reserve and Monetary PolicyStated position

    Pledged to oppose the confirmation of any Federal Reserve nominee, including for the Fed Chair vacancy, until the Justice Department's criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell was fully resolved.

    SourcesFox News
    View position & sources
  • Banking and Financial ServicesStated position

    Introduced a discussion draft of the Ensuring Fair Access to Banking Act to prohibit banks and federal regulators from denying financial services to lawful businesses for politically motivated reasons.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • HousingStated position

    Committed to supporting the Housing Supply Expansion Act of 2025, which modernizes the federal definition of manufactured housing to expand affordable housing supply and options.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Governance and Congressional ConductStated position

    Pledged, after announcing he would not seek re-election, to serve out the remaining roughly 18 months of his term and to vote independently on the merits ('call the balls and strikes as I see fit').

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Healthcare and MedicaidStated position

    Stated he would not support the 2025 Senate reconciliation bill in its then-current form, citing projected Medicaid funding cuts to North Carolina, and called for returning to the House's Medicaid approach.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Innovation and Intellectual PropertyStated position

    Committed to making passage of patent eligibility reform (the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act, which he reintroduced with Sen. Chris Coons) one of his top legislative priorities.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Disaster Relief and TaxesStated position

    Introduced the bipartisan Disaster Related Extension of Deadlines Act (with Sen. Raphael Warnock) to give Hurricane Helene and other disaster victims additional time to claim tax refunds they are owed.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Healthcare and Opioid CrisisStated position

    Introduced the bipartisan Alternatives to PAIN Act (with Sen. Mark Kelly) to ensure Medicare seniors have access to non-opioid, non-addictive pain treatments as an alternative to opioids.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • ImmigrationStated position

    Committed to working with President Trump to end illegal immigration and to advance the Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act, which would let certain crime victims sue jurisdictions that decline lawful ICE detainer requests.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (tillis.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote

    On record voting NAY on Paul Amendment No. 1829 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment whose stated purpose was to append the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act to the bill. The amendment was rejected 31 to 61, a three-fifths majority being required.

    SourcesSenate Roll Call Vote 144, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On the Amendment, Paul Amdt. No. 1829 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Amendment Rejected, 31 yeas to 61 nays with a three-fifths majority required, April 19, 2024.
    View position & sources
  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote

    On record voting NAY on Durbin Amendment No. 1841, as modified, to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment whose stated purpose was to prohibit warrantless access to the communications and other information of United States persons. The amendment was rejected 42 to 50.

    SourcesSenate Roll Call Vote 148, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On the Amendment, Durbin Amdt. No. 1841 as Modified to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Amendment Rejected, 42 yeas to 50 nays, April 19, 2024.
    View position & sources
Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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