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   From: adrastea2050@live.com   
      
   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.   
      
   In his veto letter, Trump wrote, "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, Boebert said, "President Trump decided to veto a   
   completely non-controversial, bipartisan bill that passed both the House   
   and Senate unanimously. If this administration wants to make its legacy   
   blocking projects that deliver water to rural Americans; that's on   
   them."   
      
   Boebert said she hopes "this veto has nothing to do with political   
   retaliation for calling out corruption and demanding accountability.   
   Americans deserve leadership that puts people over politics."   
      
   The Senate and House sent the bill to the president by voice vote,   
   suggesting there could be wide margins to overturn his veto if   
   Republican leaders in the House and Senate allow an override vote. It's   
   rare for presidential vetoes to be overridden by Congress, but also rare   
   for a president to veto a bipartisan, unanimous bill as he promises   
   retaliation against a specific state.   
      
   Democratic Sens. John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet sponsored the   
   Senate version of the bill.   
      
   "Donald Trump is playing partisan games and punishing Colorado by making   
   rural communities suffer without clean drinking water," Hickenlooper   
   said in a post on social media Tuesday.   
      
   Bennet also posted on social media, saying, "This isn’t governing. It’s   
   a revenge tour. It’s unacceptable."   
      
   Democratic Gov. Jared Polis said Tuesday that he would continue to fight   
   for the project.   
      
   "It’s very disappointing that the President is hurting rural Colorado by   
   vetoing this bipartisan and non-controversial bill - passed unanimously   
   by both the U.S. House and Senate - which would have delivered on the   
   decades-long promised Arkansas Valley Conduit and secure this   
   much-needed supply of clean water for rural southeastern Colorado,"   
   Polis said in a statement.   
      
   https://www.9news.com/article/news/politics/trump-vetoes-bill-arkansas-va   
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