Lawmakers may vote as soon as this week to override two vetoes that President Donald Trump issued last month for bipartisan bills.
The vetoes were the first by Trump in his second term in office, on bills that would have eased ongoing construction for a water pipeline in rural Colorado, H.R. 131, and allowed a Florida Native American tribe to carry out construction to protect one of its villages within the Everglades National Park from flooding, H.R. 504.
Trump’s actions met with bipartisan rebuke, and lawmakers like H.R. 131 sponsor Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), accused him of playing politics. Trump told POLITICO following the veto that Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) was a “bad governor.”
The bills had no opposition in Congress, so they could reach the two-thirds majorities in both chambers necessary to override the vetoes and make them law. But whether enough Republicans would defy Trump is an open question.
