{"id":14118,"date":"2026-01-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/strange-brew-trump-vetoes-allies-pipeline\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:32:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:32:53","slug":"strange-brew-trump-vetoes-allies-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/strange-brew-trump-vetoes-allies-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange brew: Trump vetoes allies\u2019 pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1680\" height=\"958\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Reps. Lauren Boebert and Jeff Hurd successfully moved legislation through both houses of Congress to complete the long-delayed Arkansas Valley Pipeline project, which would improve water quality in a region plagued by toxic groundwater. Our local newspaper rightfully acknowledged their work on this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Then the president \u2013 to whom they\u2019ve consistently pledged loyalty \u2013 promptly vetoed it (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-journal.com\/articles\/bipartisan-colorado-pipeline-bill-was-noncontroversial-until-trump-vetoed-it\/\" id=\"link-40c5e076d1d06d15f042ce1de7412c5f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em id=\"emphasis-620b74b06d89f9a02abec0b81b979894\">Journal<\/em><\/a>, Dec. 31). Strange politics indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Why would the president deny a badly needed infrastructure project that would benefit his own loyal rural constituents?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it was due to Boebert\u2019s vote on the Epstein discharge petition? Or could it be retaliation for Tina Peters\u2019 conviction and incarceration for election-related crimes tied to the \u201cStolen Election\u201d narrative \u2013 a narrative vocally and wholeheartedly embraced by none other than Boebert herself?<\/p>\n<p>Fascinating. This stuff makes my head hurt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Allen Barnhouse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-5c61bb285694cd70f2dd79dfc56793cb\">Cortez<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reps. Lauren Boebert and Jeff Hurd successfully moved legislation through both houses of Congress to complete the long-delayed Arkansas Valley Pipeline project, which would improve water quality in a region plagued by toxic groundwater. Our local newspaper rightfully acknowledged their work on this issue. Then the president \u2013 to whom they\u2019ve consistently pledged loyalty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-14118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19337,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118\/revisions\/19337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14118"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=14118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}