The House Minority Caucus heard Rep. Taggart present the FY2026-27 long bill (HB 26-1410) proposing a $17.39 billion general fund appropriation, along with several orbital bills, amid sharp debate over Medicaid growth, a Cover All Colorado enrollment cap, and Medicaid fraud — with no votes taken and multiple outcomes remaining unclear.
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Rep. Bradley argued the cap allowing 4,000 additional children (up to 25,000) is too high given budget pressures, asking 'why are we going to expand it another 4,000 kids when we have seniors desperate for property tax relief and veterans that need help and mental health therapy and kids that go home hungry.' Rep. Taggart acknowledged the compromise 'certainly isn't perfect from the standpoint that I understand you folks are coming from in terms of capping it lower' but stated it was the best achievable given the unanimity requirement and the four-Democrat, two-Republican JBC composition.
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“I didn't sign up to be a part of a sanctuary state when I decided to be a healthcare provider and now I'm going to get drafted 2% on top of a 1.6%. I have to feed my children too. We have prison guards that need to feed their children. We have nurses that need to feed their children. So we're picking winners and losers in this state.”
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Sign in to subscribeStart with a quick roll call. Representatives barone. Present. Bottoms. Representative bottoms. Bradfield. Bradley. Here. Brooks. Near caldwell. Excused to graf. I'm here. Flannel. Present. Gonzalez. What else? Yes. Hartsook. Here. Johnson. Here. Kelty. Luck. Here. Soper. Zoom. Richardson. Garcia. Sander. Slaw. Representative slaw. Sukla. Here. Taggart. Here. Weinberg. Representative weinberg. Winter. Here. Woog. Representative luke. Okay, we have quorum. We will get started here in a moment. Real quickly, what we're going to do before I turn over to Rep. Taggart, our beloved member from the jbc, is going to run through right now we have what we've got bills, House Bill 1348 through 1413. What we're going to have is Rep. Tanker is going to run us through an overview of all of the the bills that we're going to be discussing. We will then circle back with questions after we've gone through everything because we want him to get through everything that we've got and make sure that we're on track and then we'll go back. We know that there's some very contentious bills that we want to have a lot of discussion on, but please hold your questions until the end. And then when Rep. Taggart…
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