US EditionFirst vetoes of Trump's term survive override vote in Congress
House Republicans blocked override attempts on bipartisan bills to fund a Colorado water pipeline serving 50,000 people and expand Florida tribal land, citing fiscal concerns.
- On Thursday, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives declined to override two President Donald Trump vetoes, with the conduit override vote 248 in favor and 177 opposed, falling short of the two-thirds requirement.
- President Donald Trump vetoed the bills, citing fiscal concerns and taxpayer costs, and the decision coincided with intensifying reprisals tied to Colorado's refusal to free Tina Peters; supporters noted the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act had passed Congress unanimously last year.
- The Arkansas Valley Conduit, first approved in 1962, aims to serve communities with groundwater salinity or radionuclide contamination, with the CBO estimating the federal cost increase under $500,000.
- Thirty-Five Republicans joined all House Democrats in supporting the override, but it fell short, and Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., wrote `This isn't over.`
- Thursday's votes were described as the first step toward further override efforts, with Speaker Mike Johnson saying leadership was not `whipping` members, while advocates warned rural Colorado counties face delayed water projects.
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On Thursday, Republicans in the House failed to override President Donald Trump’s first two vetoes in office: a pipeline project that would bring safe drinking water to rural Colorado, and another that would return land to the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians in Florida. Their inability to block the president’s move signals their commitment to the White House over their prior support for the measures. The Miccosukee have always considered the Florid…
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Republicans on Capitol Hill on Thursday did something they have done little of in recent years: They tried pushing back against President Trump and standing up for their own, coequal branch of government. In the House, dozens of Republicans voted with Democrats on Thursday afternoon in an attempt to override Mr. Trump’s first two vetoes of his second term. But with most of the G.O.P. siding with the president, they ultimately did not have enough…
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