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“This is a travesty of the process and you know it,”said Rep. Deb Butler, D-New Hanover. On 9/11, the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on American soil, Republicans in the NC House of Representatives misled Democrats to sneak a vote to override Gov. Cooper’s veto of the state budget. Democrats in the NC House…
Read MoreThe Republican-created budget standoff is in its third month now as the GOP majority refuses to either hold an override vote on Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget veto, or negotiate with the governor for a budget that works for everyone. THE PROBLEM RIGHT NOW: The state budget is more than two months late. North Carolina’s public…
Read MoreSince they didn’t have the votes to override Gov. Cooper’s budget veto honestly, House Republicans decided to lie and cheat their way to victory in the NC House RALEIGH — The list of times Republicans in the General Assembly have said one thing and done another could stretch from Murphy to Manteo, but the GOP…
Read MoreTrump campaigns for Dan Bishop TONIGHT while slashing funds for NC military institutions, including an elementary school for military families at Fort Bragg. FAYETTEVILLE — Donald Trump is coming back in North Carolina this evening — not to assist the Hurricane Dorian recovery effort in the Outer Banks, but to campaign in Fayetteville for HB2…
Read MoreTwo weeks ago, President Trump accused Jewish people who vote for Democrats of being “disloyal.” This is the same person who has referred to neo-Nazis and KKK members as “very fine people.” On Friday, a group of Thom Tillis’s constituents and members of the Triangle Jewish community attempted to meet with the senator and urge…
Read MoreStudents in most North Carolina districts are headed back to school today, but school districts still don’t know how much money to expect from the state this year because of the GOP budget standoff. Instead of using North Carolina’s $900 million budget surplus to restore public school funding and expand health care access for working…
Read MoreGOP placing additional burdens on law enforcement and making communities less safe in order to score cheap political points RALEIGH — Progress NC Action released the following statement in response to Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of House Bill 370: “This bill forcing local sheriff deputies to act like Donald Trump’s personal deportation squad would only…
Read MoreThe cost of GOP budget inaction is about $42,000 per day, or about a million dollars and counting. Legislative Republicans can either hold an override vote or return to the negotiating table, but instead, they’re doing neither while pointing fingers at the governor. Enough House Democrats have pledged to sustain Gov. Cooper’s budget veto that Republicans have…
Read MoreSummer is almost over, and in a couple of weeks, kids will head back to school. But our state budget still hangs in limbo as Republicans continue to refuse to negotiate. Last week, House Democrats published a pledge to sustain Gov. Cooper’s budget veto which was signed by 51 of 55 House Democrats — all…
Read MoreAs the state legislature’s GOP leaders visits NC A&T and UNC-Greensboro on Tuesday, the budget standoff continues as GOP leaders deny reality of need to compromise GREENSBORO — More than five weeks after Gov. Roy Cooper submitted a compromise budget proposal to Republican leaders with no response, NC Senate President Phil Berger and NC House…
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