The Republican-controlled General Assembly is set to pass legislation that further drains vital resources from an already underfunded public school system and diverts them to a private system teeming with money.
Republican legislators overrode Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto on a bill that experts say would make it easier for someone with a history of violence or domestic abuse to buy a handgun.
For more than a decade, Republicans blocked a federally-funded expansion of healthcare to a half-million North Carolinians. On Thursday, they finally budged.
Republicans pushed through temporary rules that omit a longstanding requirement that House leaders give at least two days' notice before holding a vote to override the governor's veto of a bill. The change, which likely will be debated when permanent rules surface, could allow Republicans to complete an override simply because one Democrat leaves to take a phone call.
North Carolina's Republican-led legislature could expand Medicaid to cover 600,000 more residents this year, but they could also try to ban abortion in the state, robbing their constituents of their reproductive freedom.