Trump vetoes bill to fund Arkansas Valley Conduit in Colorado

[douglas9]

DENVER — President Donald Trump is using his first veto of his current term to kill funding for a major drinking water project in Colorado.

The Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit (AVC) Act passed unanimously in the House and Senate.

Monday's veto comes after Trump promised retaliation against Colorado for keeping his ally Tina Peters in prison. Peters was convicted on state charges for a scheme to tamper with voting systems in a search for election rigging in the 2020 presidential race.

Trump is killing the bill to finish the Arkansas Valley conduit, a decades-long project to bring safe drinking water to 39 communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar. The groundwater there is high in salt, and wells sometimes unleash radioactivity into the water supply.

The Arkansas Valley Conduit is the final component of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, which was first approved in 1962. In recent years, the cost estimate nearly doubled.

The pipeline is in Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert's district. Boebert recently stood up to the Trump administration to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Colorado's Democratic senators have chipped away at the funding gap on the project for more than a decade. Boebert sponsored the House bill to finish the project.


https://www.9news.com/article/news/politics/trump-vetoes-bill-arkansas-valley-conduit-colorado/73-92847cda-6b22-4402-a8e2-c3882888c7a3

[Chipper Chat]

1. Fucker.

Does he own stock in Nestlé Pure Death?

[JBTaurus83]

2. If it passed unanimously

Then it should be quite easy to overturn his veto.

[mountain grammy]

6. Should be..

wonder if any republicans will grow a spine..

[Lovie777]

3. And shithole ratings are down...............

while majority of American disapprove him, the administration, cabinet, republican party.

[gab13by13]

4. Krasnov is at the point where he doesn't need unwashed Magat votes,

The message from this should be that Krasnov never gave a shit about unwashed Magats, he only used them to get elected.

I hope that Boebert tells the story of the leopard to her constituents.

We are going to need unwashed Magats to join us to throw out the billionaires.

Let Colorado Magats know what Krasnov thinks of them.

[mountain grammy]

5. The part of the state that elected Boebert, who never even lived there

and where so many worship, yes I said worship, president pervert, I wonder if they'll even notice.. Their representative is a racist idiot just like their racist idiot president.

[CanonRay]

7. Those are almost all his voters out there.