Overview
- Republican leaders have scheduled a Thursday floor vote to override Trump’s vetoes of the Arkansas Valley Conduit and Miccosukee Reserved Area bills, according to multiple reports.
- Both measures passed Congress in December with broad support, and House leaders anticipate reaching the two-thirds threshold even as some Republicans could switch to back the president.
- Any override must also clear the Senate with a two-thirds vote, a rarely achieved bar that reporters say remains in doubt.
- The White House framed the vetoes as objections to shifting costs and aiding special interests, while critics such as Reps. Darren Soto and Lauren Boebert describe the moves as retaliatory.
- The vetoes are Trump’s first of his second term and the first issued under unified Republican control, raising the political stakes of the planned rebuke.