Donald Trump’s first veto of his second term kills a bill unanimously passed by both the House and Senate to fund a major safe drinking water project in Colorado.
Trump has been on a vengeance campaign against Colorado for imprisoning his ally, Tina Peters. Peters was a former Mesa County clerk who was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in the security breach at her local elections office during the 2020 election.
NEW: President Trump’s first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. https://t.co/YPbNX1JuqQ
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) December 31, 2025
From News9 in Denver:
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 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.
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.”
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.
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