The Republican-led North Carolina House of Representatives overrode Gov. Roy Cooper‘s (D-NC) veto of legislation designed to take away powers from several elected offices Democrats won last month. The legislation includes a transfer of $227 million in funds from the state’s savings to a fund for Hurricane Helene relief to help the western part of

North Carolina Republican lawmakers voted to override a gubernatorial veto of a bill that strips the state's incoming Democratic officials of key powers.

With North Carolina Republicans set to lose their veto-proof supermajority come 2025, state lawmakers took their final vote Wednesday on a bill that takes away power from incoming Democrats in the executive branch, overturning a veto with a party-line 72-46 vote.