Trump’s First Veto Targets Clean Drinking Water — and Colorado
Donald Trump’s first veto of his current term did not target war powers, sweeping spending, or some grand ideological battle. It targeted drinking water.
With a single stroke of his pen, Trump vetoed the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act — a bill that passed unanimously in both the House and Senate and was designed to deliver clean, safe drinking water to 39 rural communities on Colorado’s Eastern Plains. Communities that have waited decades for relief from contaminated groundwater, high salinity, and radioactive seepage were told, effectively, to keep waiting.
This was not fiscal prudence. It was political spite dressed up as budget discipline. Continue reading “Trump Vetoes Bipartisan Clean Water Bill in Colorado, Blocking Drinking Water for Rural Communities”
Bari Weiss’s decision to pull a fully vetted 60 Minutes investigation under the banner of “fairness” is not an act of journalistic rigor; it is a quiet capitulation that undermines the very press freedom the First Amendment exists to protect. The amendment does not guarantee the government a right of reply, nor does it condition publication on official permission slips. When a story has been fact-checked, legally cleared, and approved by standards—five times, no less—spiking it because the administration refuses to go on the record transforms government silence into an editorial veto. That is not balance; it is prior restraint by proxy. The First Amendment’s core purpose is to ensure the press can publish uncomfortable truths precisely when power prefers quiet, not to teach journalists to wait politely until the subjects of scrutiny feel cooperative.