Trump taps U.S. Rep. Bishop for Office of Management and Budget

President-elect Donald Trump nominated Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop as Deputy Director for Budget at the Office of Management and Budget, according to a Tuesday announcement.

Instead of running for reelection this year, Bishop opted to seek the North Carolina attorney general’s office. He lost to Democrat Jeff Jackson, a fellow member of Congress, by about 160,000 votes.

Bishop has held North Carolina’s 8th congressional seat since 2019. The district covers the area between Charlotte and Greensboro.

He’ll be succeeded by U.S. Rep.-elect Mark Harris, who describes himself as a “pivotal figure in the pro-life movement.”

“Dan has been a tireless fighter for our MAGA Movement in the House of Representatives on the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees,” Trump wrote in the announcement. “Dan will implement my cost-cutting and deregulatory agenda across all Agencies, and root out the Weaponized Deep State.”

Bishop stumped for the president-elect during his campaign, appearing on stage at Trump’s final North Carolina rally at Dorton Arena in Raleigh the day before the election.

OMB is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States in terms of number of employees and budget. Its responsibility is to produce the president’s budget as well as make sure agency programs, policies, and procedures comply with the president’s policies.

Prior to entering Congress, Bishop served in the North Carolina Senate from 2017 to 2019 and the House from 2015 to 2017. He was a Mecklenburg County Commissioner between 2005 and 2008.

At the state level, he was the lead author of North Carolina’s Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, the 2016 “bathroom bill” that prohibited transgender people from using public restrooms other than those for their biological sex as defined on their birth certificates.

The law was projected to cost the state more than $3.76 billion in lost revenue over 12 years, according to a March 2017 analysis by the Associated Press.

Bishop holds a bachelor’s in business administration and a law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.