Scorned MAGA Rep Lauren Boebert vows to get 'swampy' against Trump

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), normally as MAGA a Republican lawmaker as they come, has not gotten over her anger at President Donald Trump for vetoing legislation to finish a crucial infrastructure project in her district in Eastern Colorado — and she laid out a possible "swampy" plan to force him to approve the bill anyway.

According to the Colorado Times Recorder, she vented her frustration, and next plans, on KNUS Radio's Jeff and Bill Show, a right-wing program.

“I am going to ensure President Trump keeps his promise to continue this Arkansas Valley water infrastructure project and that he does not go back on his word on this,” said Boebert. She added, “When I was able to get my ‘Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit’ bill passed, I did it the right way; this was a single-subject bill. I didn’t jam it into another bill, but guess what? I’m gonna have to do that now. Now I’m going to have to find a way to be swampy and jam this into a must-pass piece of legislation because that is how this town works. That is how dirty things get.”

The Arkansas Valley Conduit project is a series of pipelines that will deliver water from the Pueblo Reservoir to over a half-dozen rural communities to the east. Trump's previous administration approved partial funding in 2020, and construction began in 2023.

The Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act would give the towns served by the project an extra 50 years to repay loans for the project, and eliminate interest charges.

Trump unexpectedly vetoed the bill in the middle of a public feud with Colorado over their Democratic governor's refusal to grant clemency to Tina Peters, an imprisoned former Mesa County elections clerk who illegally tampered with voting equipment to try to prove Trump's conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was rigged. Despite the bill passing by overwhelming, bipartisan margins in the House and Senate, not enough Republicans stuck by it after Trump's veto for an override in the House.