The promise was to strengthen Second Amendment rights BY sponsoring the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which lets concealed-carry permit holders carry across state lines. Budd performed exactly that action and it is verified by primary sources. His own Senate office release, titled "Budd Sponsors Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act" (Feb 1, 2023), documents his sponsorship, and its cited quote appears verbatim on the page. Cornyn's Senate office release lists "Ted Budd (R-NC)" among the cosponsors, and that cited text appears verbatim (this release is the Jan 2025 reintroduction, correctly characterized as sustained support). The bill (S.214, 118th Cong.) is confirmed to allow a permit holder to carry a concealed handgun across state lines. FULL rather than CHAMPIONED is correct because Budd was one of roughly 45 Republican cosponsors under lead sponsor John Cornyn — the promise was to sponsor the bill, which he fully did, but there is no evidence he authored, led, or drove the effort, so CHAMPIONED would overstate his role. The bill never received a vote and died with the 118th Congress, but the promise concerned the act of sponsoring (fully completed), not enactment, so non-passage does not downgrade it. Confidence 0.9: minor "sponsor" vs. "cosponsor" wording wrinkle, satisfied by original cosponsorship and Budd's own office framing it as sponsoring.