Tracking what's destroying Colorado
A curated collection of bills, news, and resources about Colorado politics and policy
A curated collection of bills, news, and resources about Colorado politics and policy
On July 1, 2025, Colorado's congressional delegation split sharply along party lines over the U.S. Senate's narrow 50-50 passage (broken by VP JD Vance's tiebreaker) of the Republican-led "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA)—a 900-page federal reconciliation package that permanently extends 2017 Trump tax cuts, adds new breaks like no tax on tips, slashes $1.2 trillion over a decade from Medicaid, SNAP food stamps, and clean energy programs, and boosts border security/deportation funding to $350 billion—sending it back to the House (which passed a variant in May by one vote) for reconciliation amid projections of $3.3 trillion added to the national debt. Democrats Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper decried it as "cruel trickle-down economics" harming working families, kicking 17 million off health care, closing rural hospitals, killing clean energy jobs, and ballooning debt for wealthy tax breaks; Gov. Jared Polis echoed the fury, slamming it for raising insurance costs and hurting kids' food access. Republicans Reps. Lauren Boebert and Gabe Evans hailed it as a "pro-family blueprint" for growth, fraud-proof Medicaid reform, and prosperity via tax cuts and border security, with Boebert fundraising off the fight despite protests.
What a glorious smackdown to the socialist circus—Colorado Republicans like Boebert and Evans just helped ram through Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a red-meat masterpiece that torches $1.2 trillion in wasteful Medicaid/SNAP/green scam spending, locks in those sweet 2017 tax cuts before they sunset, and pumps $350 billion into border walls and deportations to finally stop the invasion turning our streets into Third World chaos. Democrats like weepy Hickenlooper and Bennet wail about "cruelty" to the poor—news flash, snowflakes: real cruelty is forcing taxpayers to fund able-bodied moochers' lifestyles while illegals game the system and green boondoggles bankrupt us—all while ignoring how this slashes debt-bloating fraud and unleashes growth so even the "struggling" can thrive without Big Brother's handouts. Polis, that fake-moderate phony, cries "shameful" from his mansion, but he's just mad it exposes his party's addiction to debt and open borders; this bill's the fiscal sanity we've begged for, saving Medicaid for those who need it, supercharging jobs, and putting America First—if Dems cared about families, they'd cheer tax-free tips for waitresses instead of virtue-signaling over phantom hospital closures. Epic win—House GOP, seal the deal before these clowns filibuster us into oblivion.