RELEASE: Colorado Republicans in Congress Force $1 Billion Budget Hole, Triggering Special Session at State Capitol
The Colorado General Assembly will convene a special session this month to address a devastating $1 billion budget shortfall, a crisis directly triggered by Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” and rubber-stamped by Colorado’s entire Republican Congressional delegation.
This reckless, “vote first, understand dire consequences later” federal budget slashed funding for essential services across Colorado, gutting Medicaid, stripping away food assistance, and yanking resources from rural hospitals. Now, state lawmakers, led by Democrats, have to clean up the mess that Gabe Evans, Lauren Boebert, Jeff Hurd and Jeff Crank made for Colorado families.
"Colorado Republicans in Congress are solely responsible for this budget crisis that Democrats, yet again, have to clean up,” said Colorado Democratic Party Chair Shad Murib.
“Republicans broke their promise to their constituents by voting to kick over 200,000 Coloradans off their health care and jack up the cost of everything to pay for billionaire handouts. People like Gabe Evans and Lauren Boebert blew a $1 billion hole in Colorado’s budget and left states to deal with the consequences. Thanks to them, Colorado billionaires won’t go hungry or lose health care, but Colorado families will. This is political sabotage at the expense of working class people.”
According to the Office of State Planning and Budgeting, this $1.2 billion budget hole means:
No TABOR Refunds
No tax credits for working families
Cuts to health care, food assistance and other core services
Democrats passed a balanced budget last session despite tough conditions and against all odds, but Trump’s bill threw a grenade into Colorado’s finances. And every Republican member of Colorado’s Congressional delegation stood and cheered.
The special session will begin August 21. Democratic lawmakers are preparing proposals to protect working families, preserve key services, and limit the harm caused by the MAGA budget cuts.
Meanwhile, Colorado Republicans continue to offer no solutions, only excuses.
