February 04, 2026 03:11 PM UTC

Boebert Celebrates Tiny Consolation Prize After AVC Veto

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• by: Colorado Pols

As FOX 31’s Spencer Kristensen reports, Colorado’s carpetbaggingest congresscritter hands-down (no jokes please) Rep. Lauren Boebert put out a release today celebrating a total of $15 million in water project funds she was apparently able to sneak past the Trump administration, despite the President’s ongoing low-information retaliation campaign against our state:

Rep. Lauren Boebert secured nearly $15 million for clean water projects in rural areas of Colorado, only about a month after President Donald Trump issued the first-ever veto to a unanimously-approved, bipartisan bill, the “Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act,” on Dec. 30, which would have funded the completion of a 130-mile pipeline that would have delivered clean water to over 50,000 residents in southeastern Colorado.

Now, 13 communities in Boebert’s district, the 4th Congressional District, have secured $14.75 million in funding for water and infrastructure projects, after requests were signed into law.

“I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that 13 of my community project funding requests have been signed into law, delivering a critical $14.75 million boost for vital water and infrastructure projects across Colorado’s 4th Congressional District! I’ve fought hard to secure these funds because our rural communities, families, farmers, and small towns deserve clean, reliable water and modern infrastructure that supports jobs and growth,” said Boebert in a press release. “These investments will make a real difference for thousands of Coloradoans. I am proud to deliver results for the 4th District!”

We all remember when Rep. Boebert refused to play the “earmark game” early in her representation of the Western Slope, which led to Colorado’s Democratic Senators having to fill in for those appropriations requests–after which Boebert still claimed credit for earmarks brought home by others in legislation she voted against. When Republicans retook control of the House in 2022, Boebert decided that earmarks were okay after all, and after her indiscretion-driven migration to the state’s friendliest Republican confines in CO-04, Boebert has tried harder to visibly bring home the proverbial bacon.

The problem, of course, is that $15 million across over a dozen water projects is a drop in the bucket compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to complete the Arkansas Valley Conduit project vetoed by President Trump over the holidays. The veto of that unanimously-passed legislation infuriated Boebert, who wondered aloud whether the veto was the product of retaliation by Trump against Colorado. If Boebert is still angry over the AVC veto, there’s no sign of it in this release celebrating a tiny fraction.

After promising to fight Trump’s relocation of Space Command, Boebert joined the rest of the Republicans in the Colorado delegation performatively relieved it wasn’t even worse.

After defiance over the release of the Epstein files earned her bipartisan praise, Boebert declared, “I don’t give a rip about Epstein.”

Celebrating the crumbs she received after Trump vetoed the Arkansas Valley Conduit bill looks like the same quiet capitulation.