“I want my people taken care of in the mountains,” he said to NBC News before to the vote. “I just don’t think it does what we were told it would do.”
In a speech from the Senate floor in Washington on Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis, R-N.C., encouraged Republican senators to override Cooper’s veto.
“I understand there are provisions in there that have to do with … a legitimate disagreement about the scope and the role of the executive branch,” Tillis said.
“But this is not the time for us to rethink whether or not we should be sending every signal we can to the people of the North Carolina that help is on the way.”
In addition to achieving a number of other Republican demands, such as compelling counties to process votes more quickly and reducing the time voters have to correct ballot problems, the 131-page law transfers $227 million into a disaster relief fund.
Additionally, the law would forbid the state attorney general from adopting stances that conflict with those of the legislature.
