https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-issues-1st-vetoes-2nd-term-including-bipartisan/story?id=128801089President Donald Trump issued vetoes for the first bills of his second term, including a bipartisan bill intended to provide funding for a water infrastructure project in Colorado, a measure that passed the House and Senate unanimously. The Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act was set to provide clean water to rural parts of Colorado."Enough is enough. My administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies," Trump wrote in a veto letter sent to Congress. "Ending the massive cost of taxpayer handouts and restoring fiscal sanity is vital to economic growth and the fiscal health of the nation."Trump also vetoed the Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendment Act, a bipartisan bill that aimed in part to optimize water flow into part of Everglades National Park designated for the Miccosukee Native American tribe and to incorporate the Osceola Camp into the Miccosukee Reserved Area to improve the governing structure of the tribe.
"[D]espite seeking funding and special treatment from the Federal Government, the Miccosukee Tribe has actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected," Trump wrote in his veto. "My Administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding projects for special interests, especially those that are unaligned with my Administration’s policy of removing violent criminal illegal aliens from the country."The Miccosukee tribe was part of the opposition to the construction of the so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention facility in the Everglades.Trump’s veto of the bipartisan bill supporting the Colorado project comes at a time when he has fractious relations with some of the state's political leaders.The bill was co-sponsored by House Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, who defied the Trump administration by signing onto the Epstein discharge petition that forced a vote on a measure to compel the DOJ to release the files. The pipeline would provide water to residents of Boebert's district."This isn't over," Boebert said on social media on Tuesday, responding to the White House's veto announcement.Democrats also are responding to the bill’s veto, with Colorado’s Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper lambasting Trump on social media, with both accusing him of playing partisan politics."Trump just vetoed my Arkansas Valley Conduit bill -- passed unanimously to deliver clean, affordable water to Southeast Colorado," Bennet said. "This isn’t governing. It’s a revenge tour.""Donald Trump is playing partisan games and punishing Colorado by making rural communities suffer without clean drinking water," Hickenlooper said, adding that Congress should overturn Trump’s veto.
Since the bill cleared both chambers unanimously, Congress could overturn Trump’s veto. Doing so would require passing the measure by a two-thirds vote in both chambers. Trump vetoed ten bills total during his first administration, only one of which -- the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 -- was overridden by Congress.Trump’s veto also comes two weeks after he attacked Colorado Gov. Jared Polis for refusing to release former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters from prison following her receiving a presidential pardon.Peters was convicted on state charges for a scheme to tamper with voting systems driven by false claims about the 2020 election. Trump’s pardon power does not extend to state crimes."The poorly run state of Colorado with a governor whose incompetent and frankly, with a governor that won't allow our wonderful Tina to come out of a jail, in a high intensity jail because she caught people cheating on an election and they said she was cheating," Trump said on Dec. 15.He added, "She wasn't cheating. She went over, she looked at one of the election scams going on. And because she did that, they put her in jail for nine years."
>>1470475> "Ending the massive cost of taxpayer handouts and restoring fiscal sanity is vital to economic growth and the fiscal health of the nation."So he’s going to cancel that stupid ballroom and the massive battleship?
>>1470475Notice how this article failed to mention this project has been in development since the 1960s?
>>1470478Lol no, but im sure this statement won't affect the tariff checks he promised to give everyone, that is, they still wont ever be sent out.
>>1470478Ouch.
>>1470475Cutting waste fraud and abuse. Best president we've had since Jefferson Davis.
>>1470475Trump knows everything about water and it’s usage in showers…
>>1470515>Cutting water programs that have been in development for decades>They don't need water anyway
>Fascist shills found a way to justify cutting off water from 50,000 people.
>>1470526Not the government's job. They can buy their own water.
>>1470526It's waste because they don't need it. They already have water.
>>1470534>>1470535>Uh, you want better water infrastructure? Well clearly you have water since you aren't dead. Nice try fraudster.
>>1470526They could just move. They are not owed your residence. They want to cheap out and live in a place without infastructure, then that is on them. They can boil and filter their own water.
>>1470526>In development for decadesSounds like they're wasting time and stealing money.
>>1470541Yeah they keep ignoring that part.
>>1470540What do you think taxes are meant for?
>>1470561Military. Law enforcement.
>>1470563yeah, that's the opposite of what the founding fathers wanted actually esl shill
Someone tell me about those two bills without partisan shit. If they unanimously passed, it means they were full of pork and corruption. I just want to know what kind. I imagine this bill gives Nestle control over the entire Colorado water supply for the next one hundred years
>>1470563You're so fucking stupid...YOUR MONEY IS SUPPOSED TO GO BACK INTO HELPING YOU AND YOUR COMMUNITY FUCK WIT, NOT YOUR NAZI DADDY'S USELESS ASS PIGS. YOU ARE IN A CULT
>>1470566>OH MY GOD YOU CAN'T USE TAXES TO PAY FOR THE MILITARY EVEN THOUGH THAT'S BEEN A THING SINCE THE COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>1470568esl shill, all your retardation aside, why are you pretending this administration is for the troops when they're slashing VA benefits
>>1470570>when they're slashing VA benefitsSuch as?
