President Donald Trump has made the first vetoes of legislation since retaking the White House nearly a year ago, setting up a potential showdown with US lawmakers.<\/p>\n
The two bills he vetoed passed Congress with bipartisan support, meaning lawmakers could muster enough votes to override him in the new year.<\/p>\n
A Trump ally, and well-known Republican, Representative Lauren Boebert, sponsored one of the bills, which was aimed at cutting the amounts that communities in her home state of Colorado are paying toward a new water pipeline.<\/p>\n
The other bill would have supported a flooding mitigation project for a Native American tribe in Florida that had sued to stop construction of “Alligator Alcatraz”.<\/p>\n
In a message to Congress, Trump called the Colorado plan economically unviable.<\/p>\n
“Enough is enough. My Administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies,” Trump said.<\/p>\n
He added the bill would have hurt repayments to the federal government for building the pipeline, which will bring fresh water to the eastern part of the state..<\/p>\n
Boebert, one of a handful of conservative lawmakers to break with Trump and push for the release of the Epstein files this winter, responded to the veto with a post on X, writing: “This isn’t over.”<\/p>\n
“I sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retaliation,” she then said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Trump has also sparred with Colorado’s political leaders over the imprisonment of Tina Peters, a 73-year-old county clerk who echoed false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and was convicted by both the state and US government for election security-related offences.<\/p>\n
Trump, who pardoned Peters of her federal charges this month, has called on the Colorado’s Democratic governor, Jared Polis, to release her. <\/p>\n
Polis has said it is up to the courts to decide her case, which has become a rallying cry for Trump’s Make America Great Again wing of the Republican party.<\/p>\n
“Free Tina Peters!” Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday, and wrote about Colorado officials: “I wish them only the worst. May they rot in Hell.”<\/p>\n
The second bill he vetoed, the Miccosukee Reserved Area Act, would have required the Interior Department to help the tribe in Florida prevent flooding in a part of their community that has vulnerable infrastructure.<\/p>\n
In his veto message, Trump wrote that the Miccosukee had conducted “unauthorised” development on the land in question.<\/p>\n
The White House also alleged the tribe “actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected.”<\/p>\n
The Miccosukee tribe took legal action against the Trump administration’s construction of an immigration detention centre in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz”.<\/p>\n
In court filings, the tribe had argued it was uniquely impacted by the construction of the site, and its construction posed environmental risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump has made the first vetoes of legislation since retaking the White House nearly a year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-380024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}