"Republican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado district, implying the president was playing at political retaliation. The bill was aimed at funding a decades-long project to bring safe drinking water to 39 communities in Colorado's eastern plains, where the groundwater is high in salt and wells sometimes unleash radioactivity into the water supply."
"Trump vetoed the bill on Tuesday, writing in his veto letter to Congress that his administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies and that ending the massive cost of taxpayer handouts and restoring fiscal sanity is vital to economic growth and the fiscal health of the Nation. Boebert criticized the move, calling the bill completely non-controversial and pointed out that it passed the House and Senate unanimously earlier this year."
President Trump vetoed a bill that would have funded a decades-long drinking water project serving 39 communities in Colorado's eastern plains, where groundwater is high in salt and can contain radioactivity. The veto cited a commitment to prevent taxpayers from funding expensive, unreliable policies and to restore fiscal sanity. Representative Lauren Boebert, whose district would have benefited, called the bill non-controversial and noted unanimous congressional approval, suggesting the veto might be political retaliation after she sought government files on Jeffrey Epstein. Trump also vetoed a separate Everglades project for the Miccosukee Tribe, citing authorization and immigration-policy concerns.
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