ICYMI: Hickenlooper Travels to Southern Colorado, Talks Affordability, Trump Veto of AVC Bill, and More

In case you missed it,
U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper took to the road the past few days to visit Woodland Park, Pueblo, and Colorado Springs. He highlighted how issues like affordability, lack of support for veterans, water insecurity, health care, and child care are made worse by the Trump administration’s reckless policies and decisions.
In Woodland Park, Hickenlooper heard from local officials about affordability, increasing emergency preparedness, and investing in rural Colorado. The group also celebrated two Congressionally Directed Spending projects Hickenlooper
secured
for the community.
Hickenlooper then travelled to Pueblo and toured an Arkansas Valley Conduit construction site. After the tour, Hickenlooper met with local leaders at the  Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District office to hear about how critical the project is for Southeastern Coloradans in the face of Trump’s political veto of the
Finish the AVC Act
, a bipartisan bill which passed Congress unanimously and would have provided 50,000 rural Coloradans with clean, reliable drinking water.
Check out Hickenlooper’s
video
from the AVC construction site posted to his social media accounts
Hickenlooper also met with veterans and staff at Mt. Carmel Veterans Center in Pueblo to hear about the need for more accessible and affordable care for our veterans. He noted that the bipartisan
PACT Act
has been
successful
in delivering health care for more veterans, but Trump’s staffing
cuts
at the VA are reducing critical services for our veterans.
In Colorado Springs, Hickenlooper toured a local YMCA and met with families and child care professionals getting hammered by Trump’s weaponization of child care funding. The discussion focused on the workforce and funding shortages that make child care less accessible and affordable for Coloradans in El Paso County.
Hickenlooper also met with patients and health care professionals at Peak Vista Community Health Center in Colorado Springs to discuss rising health care costs after Republicans and
Trump’s ‘Big Bad Betrayal’ bill
cut over $1 trillion dollars in Medicaid funding and Affordable Care Act tax credits. These cuts will lead to as many as 240,000 Coloradans losing health care coverage.
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