Overview
- Lawmakers voted 248-177 to sustain the veto of a Colorado water-pipeline bill and 236-188 to sustain a Florida Miccosukee lands and flood-mitigation bill, both short of the constitutional two-thirds needed.
- Thirty-five Republicans joined Democrats on the Colorado vote and 24 on the Miccosukee vote, marking notable defections that were insufficient to overturn the president.
- H.R. 131 sought to finish the decades-old Arkansas Valley Conduit to deliver drinking water in southeast Colorado, a project Trump labeled too costly at an estimated $1.3 billion.
- H.R. 504 would have added Osceola Camp to Miccosukee tribal lands and required federal flood-protection work; Trump’s veto cited the tribe’s opposition to his immigration policies, which tribal leaders deny.
- Both measures had previously passed the House and Senate by voice vote, and GOP leaders said they did not whip the override, underscoring the rarity of successful veto reversals and the party’s balancing of local priorities with loyalty to the president.