Who can override a presidential veto?

• A. The Supreme Court.
• B. The House of Representatives.
• C. Both houses of Congress with a two-thirds vote.
• D. The President.

Answer: (C)

Veto power is checked by Congress, and the mechanism to override a veto requires broad, cross-chamber support. When the President vetoes a bill, it goes back to Congress, and the only way to enact it against the veto is for both the Senate and the House to pass the bill again with a two-thirds majority in each chamber. If that high threshold is met, the bill becomes law without the President’s signature. The Supreme Court doesn’t have a role in overriding a veto, since their power is to interpret laws after they’re enacted, not to override a President’s veto. A veto cannot be overridden by the House alone, and the President cannot override their own veto by acting again; only Congress, with a two-thirds vote in both chambers, can do that.