Lauren Boebert claims Trump’s veto of safe drinking water bill is retaliation

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41044499

*Colorado lawmaker, who pushed for Epstein files release, points to bill’s unanimous passage through US House and Senate*

Republican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado district, implying the president was playing at political retaliation.

The bill was aimed at funding a decades-long project to bring safe drinking water to 39 communities in Colorado’s eastern plains, where the groundwater is high in salt and wells sometimes unleash radioactivity into the water supply.

Boebert criticized the move, calling the bill “completely non-controversial” and pointed out that it passed the House and Senate unanimously earlier this year.