Trump vetoes Boebert's bill on the Arkansas Valley Conduit

[candycorn]

It will be interesting to see if Congress can summon some backbone to override the blob's veto. My guess is a big yes in the House. There are enough retiring R's to side with the Democrats to slap Mara-Lard-Ass down. In the Senate? Lots of gutless Republicans who don't want to go on record opposing His Blobness. No better way to distinguish yourself than to vote to over-ride.

My guess is that it will go-away with no vote to over-ride and they'll try again next year. Politically safer.

 

[scruffy]

I guess there's only one way to find out....Let's see if Trump has the "lame duck" status that some claim and go for a veto override.

It would probably work. And make the news. And make Mr. Trump angry again.

 

[BluesLegend]

Yet another FUBAR government PORK project already absurdly over budget and years behind schedule, and congress wanted to stick the American taxpayers with the bill and go right on burning money. Borrowed money no less.

 

[1srelluc]

Yet another FUBAR government PORK project already absurdly over budget and years behind schedule, and congress wanted to stick the American taxpayers with the bill and go right on burning money. Borrowed money no less.

And by a voice vote to boot!

Can you even fathom a chorus of Ayes when I bet 87% of those congress critters probably did not even bother to give the project a look?

I'd bet dollars to donuts there were pockets to be lined on both sides of the isle.

 

[berg80]

Veto of Water Project Is Trump’s Latest Targeted Hit on Colorado​

Meet what might be President Trump’s newest enemy: the State of Colorado.

Miffed at Colorado’s votes against him in three successive elections and furious at its refusal to free Tina Peters, a convicted election denier and ardent Trump supporter, Mr. Trump has opened an assault against the Democratic-run state. His administration has cut off transportation money, relocated the military’s Space Command, vowed to dismantle a leading climate and weather research center and rejected disaster relief for rural counties hammered by floods and wildfires.

A major escalation to Mr. Trump’s attacks on the state came on Tuesday, when he used the first veto of his second term to kill a pipeline project to provide clean drinking water to the state’s eastern plains, a largely conservative area.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/us/politics/trump-veto-water-project-colorado.html

Hell hath no furry like a prez who is pissed over a governor's refusal to give legal relief to someone who committed a crime on Don's behalf. Few things seem to give him more pleasure than seeing who folk fall in to that category get pardoned. With the exception of making millions from his corrupt crypto biz dealings.

 

[OODA_Loop]

Trump should enact a mandatory you have to bathe in Colorado Federal law.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Have you ever started any thread that wasn't Trump?

 

[JLW]

Veto of Water Project Is Trump’s Latest Targeted Hit on Colorado​

Meet what might be President Trump’s newest enemy: the State of Colorado.

Miffed at Colorado’s votes against him in three successive elections and furious at its refusal to free Tina Peters, a convicted election denier and ardent Trump supporter, Mr. Trump has opened an assault against the Democratic-run state. His administration has cut off transportation money, relocated the military’s Space Command, vowed to dismantle a leading climate and weather research center and rejected disaster relief for rural counties hammered by floods and wildfires.

A major escalation to Mr. Trump’s attacks on the state came on Tuesday, when he used the first veto of his second term to kill a pipeline project to provide clean drinking water to the state’s eastern plains, a largely conservative area.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/us/politics/trump-veto-water-project-colorado.html

Hell hath no furry like a prez who is pissed over a governor's refusal to give legal relief to someone who committed a crime on Don's behalf. Few things seem to give him more pleasure than folks falling in to that category. With the exception of making millions from his corrupt crypto biz dealings.

It just shows Trump doesn’t give a damn for his supporters. They are pawns to be used to get what wants or pawns to be discarded. Let these Americans go without water, if Colorado won’t bend to his demented desires.

 

[berg80]

Trump should enact a mandatory you have to bathe in Colorado Federal law.

Mr. Trump has never been shy about exacting retribution or using the levers of federal power to extract concessions — from state and local governments, universities, law firms or media companies. But the president’s actions in Colorado, a reliably Democratic state, are also affecting Western conservatives.
The most scorched-earth response to the president’s veto came from Representative Lauren Boebert, a Republican and onetime Trump die-hard who represents the area affected by the pipeline veto.

“Nothing says America First like denying clean drinking water to 50,000 people in southeast Colorado, many of whom voted for him in all three elections,” Ms. Boebert said in a blistering statement.

 

[Augustine_]

It just shows Trump doesn’t give a damn for his supporters. They are pawns to be used to get what wants or pawns to be discarded. Let these Americans go without water, if Colorado won’t bend to his demented desires.

Yep this is yet another case of idiots screwing themselves over by supporting MAGA

 

[Lesh]

Yep this is yet another case of idiots screwing themselves over by supporting MAGA

FAFO

 

[OODA_Loop]

Mr. Trump has never been shy about exacting retribution or using the levers of federal power to extract concessions — from state and local governments, universities, law firms or media companies. But the president’s actions in Colorado, a reliably Democratic state, are also affecting Western conservatives.
The most scorched-earth response to the president’s veto came from Representative Lauren Boebert, a Republican and onetime Trump die-hard who represents the area affected by the pipeline veto.

“Nothing says America First like denying clean drinking water to 50,000 people in southeast Colorado, many of whom voted for him in all three elections,” Ms. Boebert said in a blistering statement.

Newsweek states is still a question of fiscal policy or political retribution.

The veto raises questions about whether Congress will attempt an override and whether the move reflects broader fiscal policy priorities—or political retaliation.
The pipeline, first authorized in 1962 as part of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project signed into law by President John F. Kennedy, is intended to deliver municipal and industrial water to communities between Pueblo and Lamar, Colorado.

According to Trump’s veto message, the project was delayed for decades because it was “economically unviable” under its original cost-repayment structure, which required local users to fully repay federal funding with interest.


Trump said later changes—including provisions in a 2009 law signed by President Barack Obama reducing the local repayment share to 35 percent—failed to resolve those issues. He argued the latest bill would further shift costs to federal taxpayers by extending the repayment period to 75 years and cutting interest rates in half, despite more than $249 million already spent and total projected costs estimated at $1.3 billion.

“My Administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies,” Trump wrote, adding, “Enough is enough.”

Trump issues first veto of second term, blocks Colorado water pipeline

President Trump has rejected a bipartisan bill that would have extended federal support for a long-delayed water pipeline project.

www.newsweek.com

Nice to see Lauren Boebert is now your champion.

 

[Thinker101]

Veto of Water Project Is Trump’s Latest Targeted Hit on Colorado​

Meet what might be President Trump’s newest enemy: the State of Colorado.

Miffed at Colorado’s votes against him in three successive elections and furious at its refusal to free Tina Peters, a convicted election denier and ardent Trump supporter, Mr. Trump has opened an assault against the Democratic-run state. His administration has cut off transportation money, relocated the military’s Space Command, vowed to dismantle a leading climate and weather research center and rejected disaster relief for rural counties hammered by floods and wildfires.

A major escalation to Mr. Trump’s attacks on the state came on Tuesday, when he used the first veto of his second term to kill a pipeline project to provide clean drinking water to the state’s eastern plains, a largely conservative area.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/us/politics/trump-veto-water-project-colorado.html

Hell hath no furry like a prez who is pissed over a governor's refusal to give legal relief to someone who committed a crime on Don's behalf. Few things seem to give him more pleasure than seeing who folk fall in to that category get pardoned. With the exception of making millions from his corrupt crypto biz dealings.

WTF, they've been working on this project for about 65 fricken years, now you want others to pay?

 

[berg80]

Yep this is yet another case of idiots screwing themselves over by supporting MAGA

R's have a long history of voting against their self interests.

 

[berg80]

Newsweek states is still a question of fiscal policy or political retribution.

The veto raises questions about whether Congress will attempt an override and whether the move reflects broader fiscal policy priorities—or political retaliation.
The pipeline, first authorized in 1962 as part of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project signed into law by President John F. Kennedy, is intended to deliver municipal and industrial water to communities between Pueblo and Lamar, Colorado.

According to Trump’s veto message, the project was delayed for decades because it was “economically unviable” under its original cost-repayment structure, which required local users to fully repay federal funding with interest.


Trump said later changes—including provisions in a 2009 law signed by President Barack Obama reducing the local repayment share to 35 percent—failed to resolve those issues. He argued the latest bill would further shift costs to federal taxpayers by extending the repayment period to 75 years and cutting interest rates in half, despite more than $249 million already spent and total projected costs estimated at $1.3 billion.

“My Administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies,” Trump wrote, adding, “Enough is enough.”

Trump issues first veto of second term, blocks Colorado water pipeline

President Trump has rejected a bipartisan bill that would have extended federal support for a long-delayed water pipeline project.

www.newsweek.com

Nice to see Lauren Boebert is now your champion.

Boebert, nor MTG, nor Liz Cheney, nor Tom Massie are progressive's champions no matter how much you pretend they are. But you already knew that.

 

[berg80]

WTF, they've been working on this project for about 65 fricken years, now you want others to pay?

If there were any doubts about Mr. Trump’s sentiments toward the state’s leaders, he posted a New Year’s Eve message telling Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, and the Republican district attorney in Mesa County who prosecuted Ms. Peters, Daniel P. Rubinstein, to “rot in Hell.”

“I wish them only the worst,” the president said.

That's the definition of petty petulance and a dereliction of a prez's responsibility to do what's best for all Americans.

 

[Orangecat]

Does Don have a new enemy #1?​

I couldn’t care less for your gossip, fish-wife speculation. Obviously your “enemy #1” remains the same: a hugely successful man who doesn’t even know you exist.
Pathetic grub.

 

[Mac1958]

Veto of Water Project Is Trump’s Latest Targeted Hit on Colorado​

Meet what might be President Trump’s newest enemy: the State of Colorado.

Miffed at Colorado’s votes against him in three successive elections and furious at its refusal to free Tina Peters, a convicted election denier and ardent Trump supporter, Mr. Trump has opened an assault against the Democratic-run state. His administration has cut off transportation money, relocated the military’s Space Command, vowed to dismantle a leading climate and weather research center and rejected disaster relief for rural counties hammered by floods and wildfires.

A major escalation to Mr. Trump’s attacks on the state came on Tuesday, when he used the first veto of his second term to kill a pipeline project to provide clean drinking water to the state’s eastern plains, a largely conservative area.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/us/politics/trump-veto-water-project-colorado.html

Hell hath no furry like a prez who is pissed over a governor's refusal to give legal relief to someone who committed a crime on Don's behalf. Few things seem to give him more pleasure than seeing who folk fall in to that category get pardoned. With the exception of making millions from his corrupt crypto biz dealings.

He goes after ENTIRE STATES if they don't vote for him.

What a weak, petty, fuckin' child.

There has never been anything like this. Not even close.

 

[Nostra]

Trump should enact a mandatory you have to bathe in Colorado Federal law.

Pits…..don’t forget the pits……..make the women shave the pits.

 

[Nostra]

Mr. Trump has never been shy about exacting retribution or using the levers of federal power to extract concessions — from state and local governments, universities, law firms or media companies. But the president’s actions in Colorado, a reliably Democratic state, are also affecting Western conservatives.
The most scorched-earth response to the president’s veto came from Representative Lauren Boebert, a Republican and onetime Trump die-hard who represents the area affected by the pipeline veto.

“Nothing says America First like denying clean drinking water to 50,000 people in southeast Colorado, many of whom voted for him in all three elections,” Ms. Boebert said in a blistering statement.

Why doesn’t Colorado pay for it?

Why do I need to pay for their water?