federal budget
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Four legislative priorities waiting for House members in 2026
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The House has been out of session for two weeks, and it was clearly time for the holidays after the last few months exposed fault lines within both parties. However, it will not be smooth sailing when lawmakers return on Tuesday. The most important legislative item will be yet another government funding deadline, with nine…
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CONGRESSIONAL ROUNDUP | How Colorado’s delegation voted this week
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H.R. 5041: Safe Disposal of Unused Medication Act This was a vote to pass H.R. 5041 in the House. The Safe Disposal of Unused Medication Act is intended to prevent the misuse or theft of unused medications by authorizing hospice care workers to dispose of unused drugs, usually after hospice patients die or the medication…
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Rep. Mike Coffman’s programs for veterans included in federal spending bill
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DENVER – U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, was pleased with the $1.3 trillion spending bill the House passed Thursday because it includes a project for veterans his office said he’s been working on for four years. The bill would require Veterans Affairs to provide initial assessments and mental and behavioral health services to veterans with…
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With promise of federal money, more low-income Coloradans could get help with child care
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Thousands of additional Colorado families might be able to pay for child care if a federal spending bill due in March fulfills the pledge of a recently approved budget deal. That’s because the deal, passed by Congress and signed by President Trump earlier this month, promised new money for a subsidy program that helps low-income…
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Unite Colorado unaffiliated candidates blast DC dysfunction, compare shutdown to failed special session
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The four unaffiliated statehouse candidates running under the Unite Colorado banner – that’s the organization that used to be known as the Centrist Project – declared a pox on both major parties’ houses after the federal government ran out of money late Friday night when Congress failed to approve spending legislation. In separate releases, all…
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DeGette: Pass DACA fix by year end or look elsewhere for support on deal to avert shutdown
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U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat, said Wednesday she’ll withhold her vote on a crucial December spending deal unless the House passes legislation before the end of the year to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the country as minors. Some congressional Republicans have been pushing to postpone a vote re-establishing the Obama-era Deferred Action…
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FEEDBACK: From the Colorado Springs ballot to the federal budget and beyond
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A tutoring tool for the federal budget Are you confused about President Trump’s tax reform plan? How does it differ from the current tax plan? What about the $487 billion deficit? Our nation’s health costs that total $1.2 trillion (that’s trillion)? In cooperation with the Bi-Partisan Policy Center, we’ve developed the Federal Balancing Act –…
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Colorado officials give cold shoulder to Sessions’ request to let federal prosecutors target medical marijuana industry
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants Congress to allow federal prosecutors to target legal medical marijuana providers, but Colorado officials and members of the state’s congressional delegation say they like things the way they are. In a May 1 letter to congressional leaders made public this week, Sessions asks lawmakers to nullify the Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment,…
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Cynthia Coffman, attorneys general ask Congress to preserve federal legal aid funding
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Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, a Republican, and her Democratic counterpart in Massachusetts this week organized 30 of their fellow attorneys general urging Congress to reject a Trump administration budget proposal that would eliminate federal spending on civil legal services for rural and low-income Americans. “For more than 40 years, under Republican and Democratic administrations, the Legal…
