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Dara Kerr and agencies

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

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Lauren Boebert on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2023. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP

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.

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