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Michael Bennet: “We've been working for 10 years to try to get [the Shoshone…”

Featuring: Michael Bennet, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Colorado

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Windsor Gardens Democratic Club June 10 2026 Sen Michael Bennet

Published | Video Starts at 28:51

I don't know if you guys have been following this, but the Shoshone call is the Excel Water call on the Colorado river, just north, just up river from Grizzly Creek on the, on the river. We've been working for 10 years to try to get [the Shoshone project] transferred to the Colorado River District. which is on the western slope of Colorado. And believe it or not, Jeff Heard, who's a Republican congressman from that part of the state, got Donald Trump to get $40 million, which had been committed by Joe Biden, but didn't. (28:51–28:58)

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Asserts a decade-long effort to transfer the Shoshone project to the Colorado River District.

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