Phil Berger

Phil Berger

North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, speaks on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at a Legislative Building news conference in Raleigh, N.C. Berger and other Republican senators discussed new health care legislation that would direct the state to accept Medicaid expansion coverage for hundreds of thousands of low-income adults. Berger had been a longtime expansion opponent. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)