June 01, 2026 11:38 AM UTC

Boebert Dares Trump To Veto Arkansas Valley Conduit Funds Again

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• by: Colorado Pols

Colorado’s carpetbagging celebrity Rep. Lauren Boebert may have been disowned by her former political master and commander Donald Trump, but as the Phil Anschutz-owned Washington Examiner reports, Boebert is plowing on with whatever her agenda looks like without the man who has always embodied it:

“I’m still going to continue to support him and the promises he and I have both made on campaign trails to ensure that we keep those promises,” Boebert said on Next with Kyle Clark in response to the president calling her “dumb.”

“I don’t see it as abuse, I think it’s part of the D.C. nature,” she continued. “Nothing happens in D.C. without force.”

Trump’s attacks against Boebert likely come too late to do any harm this cycle. The filing deadline for Colorado’s June 30 congressional primary was on March 18…

As early-retiring Sen. Bill Cassidy can tell you, Trump’s vengeance has a shelf life, and as we’ve discussed already, Boebert is now a prime target for a primary challenge in 2028. But in the meantime, as CBS4’s Shaun Boyd reports, Boebert continues to give Trump’s White House no peace on the matter of the Epstein files, coming away from ex-AG Pam Bondi’s closed-door testimony last week unimpressed:

Bondi told the House Oversight Committee on Friday that while there were redaction errors, the department produced everything required under the law. Boebert told CBS Colorado she doesn’t think that’s the case…

“Why is the president so determined not to let this information out?” CBS Colorado’s Shaun Boyd asked Boebert.

“I don’t have that answer, but I am going to ensure that President Trump keeps his promises,” Boebert said. [Pols emphasis]

We appreciate the sentiment, but in reality the only “promise” we’re aware of from Trump regarding the Epstein files is to dismiss them as a “hoax” and punish Republicans who refused to drop the matter–including Lauren Boebert. Thousands of Boebert’s constituents in the Arkansas River valley have already paid the price for Boebert’s intransigence on Epstein.

But even though Boebert is now firmly on the Presidential shit list, she insists the Arkansas Valley Conduit funding is not only still happening, but somehow Trump-proof:

Boebert says she also plans to make sure the president keeps his promise to fund the Arkansas Valley Conduit, which will help residents in her district. He vetoed her bill on the critical water pipeline project after she refused to back off the release of the Epstein files, but she says the funding is now included in the Department of Agriculture appropriations bill, and she told CBS Colorado the president is not so petty that he will veto that bill. [Pols emphasis]

For the sake of our neighbors in Southeast Colorado in need of clean drinking water, here’s hoping Trump never sees the above sentence.

Because it reads like an invitation to hold Trump’s non-alcoholic beer.