State House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) responded to Democrat accusations a budget override vote was never announced by citing two announcements made during the previous day’s session. | Tim Moore/Facebook
State House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) responded to Democrat accusations a budget override vote was never announced by citing two announcements made during the previous day’s session. | Tim Moore/Facebook
The North Carolina House of Representatives overrode Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the proposed state budget on Sept. 9, spurring a heated series of back-and-forth accusations regarding whether or not House Democrats were properly informed prior to the vote.
The announcement that the budget would be voted on was made twice during the Sept. 8 session, according to a press release from the office of House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) on Sept. 11 that cited the legislative record.
“Today, the North Carolina House voted to override the governor’s budget veto and put us one step closer to delivering historic investments and pay raises to citizens in all 100 counties of this state,” House Rules Committee Chairman David Lewis (R-Harnett) said in the release.
The release stated that the passed budget will also provide a “historic school construction initiative to benefit education communities across the state.”
This is not the first time House Democrats have raised procedural objections after a budget override. In 2019, House Minority Leader Darren Jackson (D-Wake) went so far as to take a lie detector test in an attempt to validate his claims that Democrats were not told about a budget veto override vote at that time.
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