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Republican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump<\/a> for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado district, implying the president was playing at political retaliation.<\/p>\n The bill was aimed at funding a decades-long project to bring safe drinking water to 39 communities in Colorado\u2019s eastern plains, where the groundwater is high in salt and wells sometimes unleash radioactivity into the water supply.<\/p>\n Trump vetoed the bill on Tuesday, writing in his veto letter<\/a> to Congress that his administration is \u201ccommitted to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies\u201d and that \u201cending the massive cost of taxpayer handouts and restoring fiscal sanity is vital to economic growth and the fiscal health of the Nation\u201d.<\/p>\n Boebert criticized the move, calling the bill \u201ccompletely non-controversial\u201d and pointed out that it passed the House and Senate unanimously earlier this year.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s veto comes after Boebert had pushed the administration to release the government\u2019s files on the late convicted sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein. Boebert, a longtime Maga ally and supporter of the president, said in a statement to a local news station<\/a>: \u201cI sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retaliation for calling out corruption and demanding accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump also vetoed a second bill on Tuesday for a project in Florida. The measure aimed to spend $14m to protect an area known as Osceola Camp within Everglades national park that is inhabited by members of the Miccosukee Tribe of Native Americans. The tribe has fought Trump\u2019s makeshift immigrant detention center \u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d. A federal judge has now ordered the detention center to be shut down.<\/p>\n Trump said the tribe was never authorized to inhabit the Osceola Camp area, and that his administration would not support projects for special interests, especially those \u201cunaligned\u201d with his immigration policies.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s vetoes were the first two of his second term.<\/p>\n