OAN Staff Blake Wolf
4:00 PM – Wednesday, December 31, 2025
GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert criticized President Donald Trump after the president vetoed a unanimously approved bill she co-sponsored, which would have lowered payments for a local Colorado water pipeline project.
“President Trump decided to veto a completely non-controversial, bipartisan bill that passed both the House and Senate unanimously. Why? Because nothing says ‘America First’ like denying clean drinking water to 50,000 people in Southeast Colorado many of whom enthusiastically voted for him all three elections,” Boebert (R-Colo.) stated on Tuesday.
Boebert went on to sarcastically state that she “must have missed the rally where he stood in Colorado and promised to personally derail critical water infrastructure projects. My bad, I thought the campaign was about lowering costs and cutting red tape.”
“But hey, if this administration wants to make its legacy blocking water projects that deliver water to rural Americans; that’s on them.”
Boebert’s comments were in response to Trump’s veto of the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act, which was unanimously passed in both the House and the Senate.
The bill would have removed interest payments and extended repayment to 100 years for local communities for the long-delayed Arkansas Valley Conduit pipeline.
The project was initially proposed during President John F. Kennedy’s administration in 1962, but ultimately never ended up coming to fruition, partially due to a federal law that required local communities to fund the project.
The latest vetoed bill would have lowered interest payments for the local entities footing the bill while also giving them more time to repay the costs.
The White House also issued a statement on the matter, stating that the bill was vetoed because the president believes the project is a waste of taxpayer funds authorized by previous administrations.
“More than $249 million has already been spent on the [pipeline] and total costs are estimated to be $1.3 billion,” the White House wrote in a statement.
“H.R. 131 would continue the failed policies of the past by forcing Federal taxpayers to bear even more of the massive costs of a local water project – a local water project that, as initially conceived, was supposed to be paid for by the localities using it,” the statement continued.
“Enough is enough. My Administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies,” the president added.
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