Overview
- The House votes Thursday on overriding two vetoes, and it is expected to reach the two-thirds threshold required to advance the challenge.
- One bill would help finance a Colorado pipeline to bring drinking water to tens of thousands of residents, and the other would fold a village inside Everglades National Park into the Miccosukee Reservation.
- Trump rejected the water measure as too costly for federal taxpayers and criticized the Miccosukee Tribe in his veto message over its opposition to his immigration policies.
- Republicans are split, with Speaker Mike Johnson saying he will vote to sustain the vetoes and will not whip members, while figures like Rep. Don Bacon back an override and sponsor Lauren Boebert argues the president was given bad information.
- Both chambers must clear two-thirds for an override, and Senate leaders have not committed to a vote, with GOP senators saying they will first see what the House does.