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   President Donald Trump told POLITICO on Wednesday that he vetoed a   
   bipartisan bill to fund a Colorado water project because he views it as   
   a waste of taxpayer money, saying residents are leaving the state under   
   Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.   
      
   “They’re wasting a lot of money and people are leaving the state.   
   They’re leaving the state in droves. Bad governor,” Trump said in an   
   exclusive phone interview with POLITICO.   
      
   The measure, the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act, H.R. 131 (119),   
   would have helped complete a pipeline project to deliver clean drinking   
   water to communities in southeastern Colorado, where Trump’s support   
   runs deep.   
      
   It passed both chambers of Congress unanimously before Trump vetoed the   
   bill. On Tuesday, the White House announced Trump’s veto of the bill —   
   along with another piece of legislation that would have granted the   
   Miccosukee Tribe in Florida limited control over a part of the   
   Everglades.   
      
   Trump’s veto comes amid a broader feud with Polis. The president has   
   repeatedly criticized the governor over the case of Tina Peters, a   
   former Colorado county clerk serving a nine-year sentence after she was   
   convicted of state charges for allowing unauthorized access to voting   
   machines. Peters, like Trump, has spread conspiracy theories about   
   Trump’s 2020 electoral loss.   
      
   In a Truth Social post earlier in December, Trump said he was granting   
   Peters a full pardon, but Polis noted that presidents have no authority   
   to pardon people for state-level convictions. “No president has   
   jurisdiction over state law nor the power to pardon a person for state   
   convictions,” Polis said at the time.   
      
   In a new post to his social media site Wednesday, Trump again defended   
   Peters, saying he wished the “scumbag” governor and local prosecutor   
   “only the worst” due to their treatment of her.   
      
   “May they rot in Hell,” he wrote. “FREE TINA PETTERS!”   
      
   The administration has also denied recent disaster declaration requests   
   from Colorado following wildfires and flooding in December, a move the   
   White House insists is not politically motivated.   
      
   https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/31/trump-veto-colorado-water-jared-   
   polis-00708585   
      
   Elect gays as leaders, pay the price.  Colorado is a failing shithole   
   because of Polis.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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