On the heels of GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announcing she is retiring from Congress after a very public feud with President Donald Trump, another high-profile MAGA lawmaker is suddenly going to war with Trump.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) ripped Trump for using the first veto of his second term to reject a unanimously approved bill she co-sponsored to bring more water to rural communities in her home state.
In a fiery statement, the outspoken MAGA congresswoman expressed concern that Trump’s veto was motivated by “political retribution,” with some of the president’s critics citing a local 2020 case of alleged election fraud that hasn’t gone to his liking and Boebert’s tough stance on the Jeffrey Epstein files.
“President Trump decided to veto a completely non-controversial, bipartisan bill that passed both the House and Senate unanimously. Why?” Boebert said in a statement on Tuesday, just one day after the Trump veto.
“I must have missed the rally where he stood in Colorado and promised to personally derail critical water infrastructure projects. My bad, I thought the campaign was about lowering costs and cutting red tape.”
The bill in question sponsored by Boebert dubbed the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act had cleared both the House and Senate unanimously.
It would have completed a pipeline project to bring clean drinking water to more than three dozen communities in the Eastern Plains of Colorado that are known to have groundwater with high levels of salt. There are also concerns about radioactivity in some of the wells there.
The AVC water pipeline was initially authorized under legislation that President John F. Kennedy signed into law in 1962.
Trump contended that the pipeline went unbuilt for decades because it was “economically unviable” and underscored how originally, the project was supposed to be funded by the feds, then repaid by locals over the next five decades, “but participants were unable to comply with that.”
According to Boebert, the bill would have given locals an additional 25 years to repay the federal government and cut the interest payment due in half.
However, Trump said he vetoed the bill due to its high price tag.
“More than $249 million has already been spent on the AVC, and total costs are estimated to be $1.3 billion,” Trump noted in his veto message.
“Enough is enough. My Administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies.”
Beobert escalated things insisting the veto was somehow politically motivated.
Boebert was one of four House Republicans who voted to force the lower chamber to consider the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
“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,” the congresswoman said in her statement blasting the president’s veto.
On X, she declared, “This isn’t over.”
This isn’t over. https://t.co/SxRacLX8fp
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) December 31, 2025
Boebert has been one of Trump’s most vocal supporters while in Congress.
Boebert has been marred in personal controversy, including a very public spat and divorce of her ex-husband Jayson in 2023 after 20 years of marriage.
She also made headlines for being removed from a Denver “Beetlejuice” performance over conduct with a date, Aspen bar owner Quinn Gallagher.
The congresswoman won re-election in November after moving to Colorado’s more conservative 4th Congressional District on the Great Plains, following a near loss in her previous Rocky Mountain district.