President Donald Trump on Monday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have secured clean drinking water for thousands of Colorado residents, leading Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) to wonder if the move was “political retaliation” for her vocal stance on the Jeffrey Epstein files.
“And I sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retaliation for calling out corruption and demanding accountability,” Boebert said Tuesday in a statement shared on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, by Denver TV news anchor Kyle Clark.
She continued, “Americans deserve leadership that puts people over politics.”
Boebert sponsored the bill, formally titled the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act, which would have funded construction of a long-delayed pipeline for clean drinking water affecting some 50,000 people in communities within the Arkansas River Valley.
The MAGA darling has consistently backed Trump’s “America First” mantra and his false claims of election fraud in 2020, but broke with him over his refusal to release all files on Epstein — the late child predator who once called Trump his “closest friend.”
