President Donald Trump has withdrawn his endorsement of U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd in this year’s midterm election over Hurd’s recent vote to cancel some of Trump’s tariffs.

Trump wrote in a social media post Saturday that the freshman Republican’s recent vote to cancel the president’s tariffs on Canada left Hurd as “one of a small number of legislators who have let me and our country down.”

The president instead threw his weight behind the more politically conservative Hope Scheppelman in her June primary against Hurd. She is a former vice chair of the Colorado Republican Party and a hospital corpsman with the U.S. Navy.

Scheppelman, who lives in Bayfield, has worked in the healthcare field for 35 years and is a critical care nurse practitioner.

Trump, in his afternoon Truth Social post, said Scheppelman had his “complete and total endorsement to be the next representative from Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.” He called Hurd a RINO — a Republican in name only — and said it was only the second time he had rescinded an endorsement.

Hurd was one of just six Republicans to join nearly all House Democrats earlier this month in a vote to cancel Trump’s Canadian tariffs — a rare instance of Congress trying to assert its authority over the Trump administration. The Feb. 11 vote came less than two weeks before the Supreme Court’s ruling Friday striking down many of the global tariffs Trump had imposed using emergency powers.

Without mentioning the president by name, Hurd late Saturday posted on X that “every vote I cast is guided by what is best for this district and the long-term strength of our country.”

“Leadership requires independent judgment and the willingness to stand on principle,” Hurd wrote. “My focus remains on delivering results for rural Colorado. That’s the job I was elected to do — and I’ll keep doing it with conviction, optimism, and a deep gratitude for the people I serve.”

Hurd, who represents many farmers and ranchers on Colorado’s West Slope and beyond, has long questioned whether Trump was improperly stepping on congressional authority by imposing import taxes that he argued are the proper province of Congress — an argument the Supreme Court justices advanced in their 6-3 decision Friday.

Scheppelman on X thanked Trump for his support, saying she was “honored to have the president’s trust and support to be his partner in protecting jobs and creating economic opportunity for the American people.”

“I will not let the people of Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District down,” she wrote.

Neither Hurd nor Scheppelman could be reached for comment Monday. The Republican primary for the right-leaning district, Colorado’s largest by geography, is June 30.

Hurd, a Grand Junction attorney, has staked out a significant advantage in the fundraising game, collecting in this election cycle more than $2.3 million as of the end of last year. Scheppelman had raised just over $200,000 at the same point.