Over the next four years, Democrats sustained all 47 of Cooper’s vetoes, blocking Republican attempts to force sheriffs to assist immigration officials, limit Cooper’s emergency COVID powers, and loosen gun laws. They also sustained Cooper’s veto of the Republicans’ 2019-20 budget, which Cooper argued lacked sufficient raises for teachers and failed to expand Medicaid. After Democrats won races for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and schools superintendent last month, Republicans used a hurricane relief bill to curtail their powers—one last time, over Cooper’s veto.