Colorado MAGA Representative
#Lauren #Boebert is claiming that Donald Trump
❌killed a massive clean water project in her district
as punishment for her voting to release the Epstein files,
even after Trump pressed her not to. 

The Arkansas Valley Conduit was a project decades in the making that was supposed to grant safe drinking water to
39 communities across the region,
and received bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress.

Trump ended all of that on Tuesday. 

“My Administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies,”
he said in a statement justifying his veto of the bill.

“Ending the massive cost of taxpayer handouts and restoring fiscal sanity is vital to economic growth and the fiscal health of the Nation.”

Boebert was incensed. 

“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 in all three elections,”
she wrote in a statement.

"I thought the campaign was about lowering costs and cutting red tape.

But hey,
if this administration wants to make its legacy blocking projects that deliver water to rural Americans;
that’s on them.”

“And I sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retaliation for calling out corruption and demanding accountability.

Americans deserve leadership that puts people over politics,” she continued. 

Boebert is clearly alluding to Trump’s aforementioned phone call to demand that she remove her name from the petition to release the Epstein files.  

Boebert also argued that the veto would have been reasonable if it targeted more liberal voters in Colorado,
-- but not people in her region who
“overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump in the last three elections.” 

“These are not the people that should be attacked,” she said in a video message. 

https://newrepublic.com/post/204832/lauren-boebert-donald-trump-veto-water-epstein-vote

Lauren Boebert Suggests Trump Vetoed Water Project for Stunning Reason

Donald Trump had tried to pressure Boebert out of voting to release the Epstein files.

The New Republic
Lauren Boebert accused Trump of “political retaliation” after he vetoed the bipartisan Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act, a crucial water project for 50,000 people. Trump called it an “unacceptable taxpayer handout” despite estimates it would cost less than $500,000 and officials deeming it essential for reliable water for 39 communities. Boebert slammed the veto as “completely non-controversial” and hinted it was revenge related to her role in releasing the Epstein files. This showdown reveals how personal politics can threaten vital infrastructure projects. Want to know more? https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-rep-lauren-boebert-launches-blistering-attack-on-donald-trumps-epstein-files-retaliationruption/ #Boebert #Trump #Infrastructure #Politics #WaterCrisis #Bipartisan #RevengePolitics
MAGA Rep Launches Savage Attack on Trump’s Epstein Payback

Trump loyalist Lauren Boebert suggests a water-pipeline veto is retaliation for her pushing a House vote on the Epstein files.

The Daily Beast

This is what happens when you make a deal with the devil, and expect the devil to stop being the devil. #uspol #trump #boebert #LeopardsAteMyFace

https://flipboard.com/@usatoday/top-stories-u1i7u70sz/-/a-daHdke4IRTic_OGHPe51jA%3Aa%3A3199709-%2F0

Trump draws ire of Lauren Boebert after veto of Colorado water project

WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump issued his first vetoes of his second term just before the end of the year, blocking two bipartisan bills involving infrastructure. One of the bills, H.R. 131, sought to finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit, a water pipeline under construction to provide municipal …

USA TODAY - Joey Garrison
Trump has since met with #Boebert, a #WhiteHouse official confirmed to #CNN, though the meeting did not successfully sway her. Instead, the #Colorado lawmaker “remains committed to keeping her name on the discharge petition” according to Karni newrepublic.com/post/203100/...

Trump Begs Lauren Boebert to T...
Trump Begs Lauren Boebert to Take Her Name Off Epstein Files Petition

The White House is clearly spiraling over the files, especially as new details drop.

The New Republic

If #Trump is Superman, then this is his political kryptonite.

👉🏾 Top administration officials met with #Boebert about House vote on release of #Epstein files https://abcnews.go.com/US/top-officials-met-boebert-house-vote-release-epstein/story?id=127458397

Top administration officials met with Boebert about House vote on release of Epstein files: Sources

Officials wanted Boebert to drop her support for their release, sources said.

ABC News

⬆️ @GaryRLundberg

>> #Trump Ramps Up Pressure on #GOP to Thwart #Epstein Vote

>> #LaurenBoebert, one Republican pressing for more Epstein disclosures, was summoned for a meeting in the #WhiteHouse #SituationRoom.

More importantly, if #Boebert is successfully intimidated, then #Grijalva's vote will NO LONGER BE THE 218th VOTE needed to release all the #EpsteinFiles.

This is another way #Biden fucked us up by protecting Trump. #MerrickGarland could have easily and legally released but didn't

"Lauren #Boebert stirs controversy with #racist Halloween costume making light of #ICE crackdown"

What a dreadful little person.

I am, mercifully, *not* in her district, but it's right next door to me. Sounds like a good time for me to make a donation to her Democratic competitor next year, Trisha Calvarese.

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/11/03/lauren-boebert-halloween-costume-mexican-ice-immigration/

Lauren Boebert stirs controversy with racist Halloween costume making light of ICE crackdown

“She should be ashamed of herself,” Stacy Suniga, the president of the Latino Coalition of Weld County, said of a Mexican-themed costume U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert wore at a Halloween par…

The Denver Post

@georgetakei

The outrageous thing about Lauren Boebert is not the fact that she feels she can get away with telling an overtly racist joke in public.

The outrageous thing is that Lauren #Boebert is a member in good standing of the #Republican Party, which will not kick her out, not sanction her, not scold her, not even pretend to disapprove.

Chaos erupted in the #Congress when #Boebert was not satisfied with Speaker #MikeJohnson’s silent prayer for #CharlieKirk and demanded a publicly spoken prayer. #Democrats objected that other shooting victims, including the students shot in Colorado, did not get similar treatment

#CharlieKirkshot #CharlieKirkdead

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