President Donald Trump issued vetoes for the primary payments of his second time period, together with a bipartisan invoice meant to offer funding for a water infrastructure undertaking in Colorado, a measure that handed the Home and Senate unanimously.
The End the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act was set to offer clear water to rural components of Colorado.
“Sufficient is sufficient. My administration is dedicated to stopping American taxpayers from funding costly and unreliable insurance policies,” Trump wrote in a veto letter despatched to Congress. “Ending the huge value of taxpayer handouts and restoring fiscal sanity is important to financial progress and the fiscal well being of the nation.”
President Donald Trump listens throughout a information convention with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025, in Palm Seashore, Fla.
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Trump additionally vetoed the Miccosukee Reserved Space Modification Act, a bipartisan bill that aimed partly to optimize water stream into a part of Everglades Nationwide Park designated for the Miccosukee Native American tribe and to include the Osceola Camp into the Miccosukee Reserved Space to enhance the governing construction of the tribe.
“[D]espite in search of funding and particular therapy from the Federal Authorities, the Miccosukee Tribe has actively sought to impede affordable immigration insurance policies that the American folks decisively voted for after I was elected,” Trump wrote in his veto. “My Administration is dedicated to stopping American taxpayers from funding initiatives for particular pursuits, particularly these which are unaligned with my Administration’s coverage of eradicating violent felony unlawful aliens from the nation.”
The Miccosukee tribe was a part of the opposition to the development of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility within the Everglades.
Trump’s veto of the bipartisan invoice supporting the Colorado undertaking comes at a time when he has fractious relations with a few of the state’s political leaders.
The invoice was co-sponsored by Home Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, who defied the Trump administration by signing onto the Epstein discharge petition that compelled a vote on a measure to compel the DOJ to launch the information. The pipeline would supply water to residents of Boebert’s district.
Rep. Lauren Boebert arrives on the U.S. Capitol Constructing on December 10, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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“This is not over,” Boebert said on social media on Tuesday, responding to the White Home’s veto announcement.
Democrats are also responding to the invoice’s veto, with Colorado’s Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper lambasting Trump on social media, with each accusing him of taking part in partisan politics.
“Trump simply vetoed my Arkansas Valley Conduit invoice — handed unanimously to ship clear, inexpensive water to Southeast Colorado,” Bennet said. “This isn’t governing. It’s a revenge tour.”
“Donald Trump is taking part in partisan video games and punishing Colorado by making rural communities endure with out clear ingesting water,” Hickenlooper said, including that Congress ought to overturn Trump’s veto.
The U.S. Capitol at sundown in Washington, D.C., Dec. 23, 2025.
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Because the invoice cleared each chambers unanimously, Congress might overturn Trump’s veto. Doing so would require passing the measure by a two-thirds vote in each chambers. Trump vetoed ten bills total throughout his first administration, solely one in every of which — the Nationwide Protection Authorization Act for Fiscal Yr 2021 — was overridden by Congress.
Trump’s veto additionally comes two weeks after he attacked Colorado Gov. Jared Polis for refusing to launch former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters from jail following her receiving a presidential pardon.
Peters was convicted on state costs for a scheme to tamper with voting techniques pushed by false claims concerning the 2020 election. Trump’s pardon energy does not extend to state crimes.
“The poorly run state of Colorado with a governor whose incompetent and admittedly, with a governor that will not enable our fantastic Tina to return out of a jail, in a excessive depth jail as a result of she caught folks dishonest on an election they usually mentioned she was dishonest,” Trump mentioned on Dec. 15.
He added, “She wasn’t dishonest. She went over, she checked out one of many election scams happening. And since she did that, they put her in jail for 9 years.”
