President Donald Trump killed a rural water bill Tuesday night that would have funded a pipeline to bring clean water to 50,000 residents in southeast Colorado.
House Resolution 131, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, both of Colorado, sought to jumpstart a project that had languished since 1962. The bill would extend the repayment period for the project and cancel interest payments. It passed both chambers of Congress by voice vote earlier this year.
The Arkansas Valley Conduit project would build a 130-mile pipeline to bring drinking water from the Pueblo Reservoir to 39 communities east of Pueblo. Supporters held a groundbreaking for the project in April 2023.
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Trump, who has recently lashed out at Colorado for a slew of grievances, cited the project's $1.3 billion price tag and said it was supposed to be paid for by local municipalities -- not the federal government -- in his veto statement.
"Enough is enough," the veto statement from Trump reads. "My Administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies. Ending the massive cost of taxpayer handouts and restoring fiscal sanity is vital to economic growth and the fiscal health of the Nation."
In a statement on social media, Bennet said Trump's veto "isn’t governing. It’s a revenge tour."
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Boebert, a longtime ally of the president, recently broke with him by voting to mandate the release of the so-called Epstein files, a trove of documents about the notorious sex criminal with longtime ties to Trump. Trump has also singled out Colorado for retribution over the state's imprisonment of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters.
Peters is serving a nine-year sentence in state prison for crimes related to breaking into local voting machines in an effort to prove the president's repeated, unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Trump has pardoned Peters, though he has no jurisdiction over state-level crimes.
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