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”