DENVER - Colorado Governor Jared Polis has been outspoken in opposition to the bill passed by Congress that will throw hundreds of thousands of people off their health care, increase the cost of living, and kill jobs. Gov. Polis released the following statement:
“The One Big Budget-Busting Bureaucracy-Building Act will raise health care costs for everyone, raise our deficit and national debt, hurt kids who need access to food, and increase costs on Coloradans. It will divert money from health care to bureaucrats, leading to an unprecedented expansion of government bureaucracy. It’s deeply disappointing that all the Republican members of our delegation voted for this bill, despite being warned repeatedly of the damage it will cause for their constituents and our state. Colorado Republicans and Trump now own the devastating impacts, cost increases, and chaos this bill will impose on hardworking Coloradans and Americans,” said Governor Polis.
Congresswoman Boebert, Congressman Hurd, Congressman Evans, and Congressman Crank voted yes. Congressman Neguse, Congressman Crow, Congresswoman DeGette, Congresswoman Pettersen, Senator Hickenlooper, and Senator Bennet voted no. The bill passed the House 218-214.
This comes after Governor Polis joined Senator Hickenlooper, Representatives Pettersen, DeGette, Crow, and Neguse, along with community advocates in health care, clean energy and more, to urge Republicans and Congress not to pass this devastating bill.
Governor Polis has consistently sounded the alarm over the harmful impacts of this cruel and disastrous bill. Governor Polis has opposed cruel provisions in this bill, including:
- Cutting Medicaid funding, which will kick Coloradans and families off health care, while raising costs for everyone else. Earlier this year, Governor Polis and Lt. Governor Primavera sent a letter to Colorado’s Congressional Delegation urging them not to cut Medicaid funding.
- Gov. Polis and a coalition of health care advocates called for devastating cuts to be removed from the bill
- Threatening SNAP funding and food access for children and families
- Killing jobs in Colorado’s strong clean-energy industry
- Irresponsibly ballooning America’s national debt
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