Colorado lawmakers warn financial woes are just beginning as Gov Jared Polis signs $44 billion budget

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs $44B state budget

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed the state’s $43.9 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year on Monday, culminating nearly a year’s worth of work to craft a spending plan that appropriately funds public education and Medicaid while cutting enough program…

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs budget with more than $1 billion in cuts — doing 'the least amount of harm'

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis signed Colorado’s $44 billion spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year on Monday — placing an emphasis on what the final budget protected, not the $1.2 billion in cuts needed to close a gap facing…

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs state budget with $1.2B in cuts. Here’s what it means for transit, health care and schools

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Monday signed into law a $43.9 billion spending plan that caps months of deliberation by lawmakers over how to close a major budget shortfall.  The sprawling package includes $1.2 billion in cuts and shifts in fund accounts in order to balance the state’s 2025-26 budget, which lawmakers said had largely been stressed by higher-than-anticipated Medicaid costs.  To stave off deep cuts to health care and public educatio…

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs state budget with $1.2B in cuts

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Monday signed into law a $43.9 billion spending plan that caps months of deliberation by lawmakers over how to close a major budget shortfall.  The sprawling package includes $1.2 billion in cuts and shifts in fund accounts in order to balance the state’s 2025-26 budget, which lawmakers said had largely been stressed by higher-than-anticipated Medicaid costs.  To stave off deep cuts to health care and public educatio…

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs state budget with $1.2B in cuts. Here’s what it means for transit, health care and schools.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Monday signed into law a $43.9 billion spending plan that caps months of deliberation by lawmakers over how to close a major budget shortfall.  The sprawling package includes $1.2 billion in cuts and shifts in fund accounts in order to balance the state’s 2025-26 budget, which lawmakers said had largely been stressed by higher-than-anticipated Medicaid costs.  To stave off deep cuts to health care and public educatio…

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs budget with more than $1 billion in cuts — doing “the least amount of harm”

Gov. Jared Polis signed Colorado’s $44 billion spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year on Monday — placing an emphasis on what the final budget protected, not the $1.2 billion in cuts needed to close a gap facing the state. Lawmakers split from Polis in numerous ways between his November budget proposal and the spending bill he signed Monday morning: More money for the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, which oversees the state’s…