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Trump’s latest funding cuts dampen bipartisan dealmaking in 2026
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Senate Republicans are optimistic about bipartisanship beyond healthcare next year, despite the looming midterm elections, but some of President Donald Trump’s latest actions could thwart the appetite for deal-making. The administration is dismantling a federal climate center and halting construction of offshore wind projects, drawing ire from Democrats who say the moves intentionally undercut clean…
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Michael Bennet, Democratic candidate for Colorado governor
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet has joined a crowded field of candidates vying for the state’s top spot as governor with Gov. Jared Polis reaching term limits in 2026. Bennet is a longtime Colorado public servant and attorney, having served more than 16 years in the U.S. Senate, representing the state. He was first appointed to…
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Colorado podcaster who has called for political foes to be executed joins GOP primary for governor
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Joe Oltmann, the conservative Colorado podcaster who has repeatedly called for Colorado’s top elected officials to be executed and whose uncorroborated claims that the 2020 election was rigged spawned multiple defamation lawsuits, declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor last week. Oltmann joins a crowded field of Republicans seeking to take over from…
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2025 Unfiltered: Moments that marked Colorado’s decidedly off-kilter political year
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From the flurry of executive orders that ushered in President Donald Trump’s second term to a blizzard of lawsuits filed by the state’s Democratic officials, the state’s political year was marked by near-constant conflict between the GOP-controlled federal government and the Democrats who run Colorado. The year saw the Trump administration step up immigration enforcement…
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Gov. Jared Polis urges Trump to reverse FEMA disaster aid denials
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Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper are calling on President Donald Trump to reverse federal denial of Colorado’s requests for federal disaster declarations tied to recent wildfires and flooding. Polis’ office said he received two denial letters from the Federal Emergency Management Agency late Saturday. The letters followed requests…
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Crank challenger Jessica Killin racks up endorsements from all of Colorado’s congressional Democrats
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U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper has endorsed fellow Democrat Jessica Killin’s bid to oust Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District, giving the first-time candidate a clean sweep of support from the state’s six-member Democratic delegation. Killin, an Army veteran and former chief of staff to second gentleman Doug Emhoff, is one of…
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Trump administration moves to shutter national climate lab in Colorado
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Democrats slam decision as ‘deeply dangerous’ as White House calls facility a source of ‘climate alarmism’ The Trump administration is moving to dismantle one of the world’s leading climate and weather research institutions, citing what a White House official termed the Colorado-based facility’s “climate alarmism” in a decision state Democratic elected officials denounced as “deeply…
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Trump pardons Tina Peters, but Colorado officials say he can’t reverse state convictions | TRAIL MIX
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President Donald Trump said late on Dec. 11 that he had issued a pardon for Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk convicted of orchestrating a scheme to breach secure election equipment, though Colorado officials and legal experts immediately countered that the president’s broad pardon powers don’t extend to state-level crimes like those committed by…
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Campaign finance complaints add up for Bennet campaign
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Three state campaign finance complaints have been filed against U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Denver, tied to his campaign for governor in 2026. A fourth is likely, sources have told Colorado Politics. The first two were filed on Sept. 24 and on Nov. 4 by Alyssa Holladay of Denver. Her political affiliation is unknown. The first…
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Colorado’s Michael Bennet rode outrage over last government shutdown to presidential bid | TRAIL MIX
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Only weeks after the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history ended with congressional Democrats’ demands to restore health care funding previously cut by Republicans left dangling, the high-stakes standoff that dominated political news for 43 days has already receded into the hazy mists of the country’s addled short-term memory. National polling released this week…
