🚨 Week of Action: The Health Care Heist 🚨 Health care costs are rising, coverage is shrinking, and lawmakers want even deeper cuts, including $900 billion from Medicaid under H.R. 1. 📉 1.2M people have already lost coverage ⚠️ 15M+ at risk Enough is enough.

At a time when housing costs are rising, this proposal moves us in the wrong direction. The new HUD rule could separate families or push them out of stable housing altogether. Read what’s at stake: coloradofiscal.org/hud-mixed-status

Last July, the Republican megabill (H.R. 1) enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history. Today, we're releasing a tracker of how many people in each state are losing the SNAP benefits they need to afford groceries. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Thanks to everyone who came out for our Purple Party! 💜 It was great seeing all the shades of mauve, periwinkle, lavender, grape, plum, and purple in between as we celebrated the launch of the 2026 Purple Book. Didn’t grab a copy? You can still get one. 📚 https://ow.ly/ZK4g50YqmLI

The Family Affordability Tax Credit (#FATC) worked. It helped reduce child poverty by nearly 37% in just one year. Now it’s gone. This session, lawmakers are pushing a four-bill package to restore it and make it permanent. 🔗 Read on https://coloradofiscal.org/farewell-fatc-for-now/

Big energy at the capitol today! 🚀 We and our partners launched a bill package that rescinds old business tax breaks and invests back into Colorado families with a new affordability credit. #ColoradoFirst #COleg

Colorado’s Family Affordability Tax Credit (#FATC) works. A powerful story in The Denver Post shows how the FATC helped families weather crisis and lifted 52,000 Colorado kids out of poverty in just one year. That’s what’s at stake. Read the story by Nick Coltrain: https://ow.ly/l0be50YbU3g

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth 🖤 We’re marking the month with Cash, Color & Control—a new podcast on how race, money, and power collide in the tax system. Timely convos, special guests, more coming soon.

We agree: Colorado’s flat income tax isn’t working. It asks working families and millionaires to pay the same rate, even as our budget falls short. A graduated income tax is a smarter, fairer way to fund schools, health care, and the basics Coloradans rely on. https://ow.ly/1VtW50Y4Cz0

Colorado’s flat income tax isn’t working. Working families & millionaires pay the same rate, while our budget falls short. A graduated income tax is a smarter, fairer way to fund schools & health care. #Colorado #TaxReform #FairTaxes https://ow.ly/xx2050Y4Cra

Colorado’s values are strong. Our tax code? Less so. Kathy White on why federal chaos shouldn’t dictate Colorado’s future — and why decoupling and closing loopholes matter right now. 🔑 🔗 https://ow.ly/qG2t50Y1ngH

Opening day under the Dome 🏛️✨ Back on the Capitol steps, caffeinated, mission-driven, and ready to bring the data, the values, and the receipts. Let’s go, Legislative Session. 💪📊

Good news: The House passed the 3-year ACA premium tax credit extension — and Rep. Jeff Hurd voted YES. Thank you Rep. Jeff Hurd for listening to Coloradans and responding to the need for affordable health care. 🔗 https://ow.ly/xIk250XU6He #healthcareheist

TODAY (Jan. 8), the House will vote on extending ACA premium tax credits after letting them expire. Colorado Republicans: Rep. Jeff Hurd, Rep. Lauren Boebert, Rep. Jeff Crank, and Rep. Gabe Evans—vote YES and stop the #healthcareheist.

This week, the House is expected to vote on a bill to extend the Premium Tax Credit enhancements. This would reduce 2026 premiums for the average #ACA marketplace enrollee by more than half, improving affordability for millions of people struggling with health costs. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re grateful for this community and getting ready for the session ahead. Your 💝 helps CFI stay responsive and ready. Colorado can’t wait. Support CFI today. www.coloradofiscal.org/donate

Colorado can’t wait for the wealthy and corporations to pay their fair share in taxes or for action on TABOR. Donate to CFI and help drive change in 2026. www.coloradofiscal.org/donate

Does someone need a hug? Or just better economic context? CFI’s newest Forecast Five breaks down Colorado’s latest fiscal forecast—what’s up, what’s slowing down, and what lawmakers aren’t saying out loud. Five things to know 👀 https://coloradofiscal.org/december-2025-forecast-five/

Medicaid is not what is breaking Colorado’s budget. In the Colorado Sun, Lydia McCoy of the Colorado Center on Law and Policy explains why #TABOR, not Medicaid, is the real driver of our budget crisis. https://ow.ly/wbGx50XLJ6r

The Senate rejected BOTH health care bills today—right as steep premium hikes loom next month. Families can’t afford gridlock. Join CFI + @CoHealthAccess in telling Congress to protect affordable coverage now: https://ow.ly/5sQn50XHCw7

On behalf of all of us at CFI, THANK YOU for your incredible support on Colorado Gives Day 2025 🙏 Because of you, we are one step closer toward realizing our vision of a Colorado that invests in everyone! 💜

Need something hopeful to listen to this morning? ☕✨ CFI sat down with Holly Sisa on the Morning Mimosas podcast to talk about the fight to bring #babybonds to Colorado—a big idea that could help kids from low-wealth families build real opportunities. 🌱💰 🎧 Listen Here: https://ow.ly/zbqb50XHyzh

Happy #ColoradoGivesDay! Join Exec. Director Kathy White in supporting CFI—an investment in a Colorado that invests in everyone. Your gift goes even farther today thanks to the incentive fund. Give now 🎁 https://ow.ly/T18s50XGqRP

When you give to CFI, you power work like our Vision 2076 tour—listening to communities statewide and bringing their ideas into the policy arena. Colorado Gives Day is tomorrow, but early gifts keep the momentum going. Give today: https://ow.ly/o46M50XFWc8 #coloradogives #coloradogivesday

Ordinary people deserve extraordinary power. That’s why we created Tax Ambassadors—to help communities understand Colorado’s tax system and share it in plain language. Your Giving Tuesday gift fuels this work: https://ow.ly/u4HS50XAPnN #coloradogives #coloradogivesday

This #ColoradoGivesDay (12/9) , invest in a Colorado that invests in everyone! Your donation to CFI fuels the research, education, and community power needed to shape an economy that works for all of us—not just the wealthy. Don't wait, donate 🫴🎁 https://ow.ly/zGE150Xyssi#ColoradoGivesDay

That’s right — we’re headed to Montrose and Durango this week with Reimagine Co 🚗💭 Vision 2076 is about YOU: What kind of Colorado do you want in 50 years? 📰 https://ow.ly/ySmG50XtOHf #Vision2076

www.cbpp.org/blog/adminis... Administration Won’t Spend All SNAP Funds It Says Are Available, Leading to Deep Benefit Cuts for Low-Income Households

💸 Healthcare costs are already out of control. We need Congress to lower them, not raise them by taking away Affordable Care Act credits that help 22 million people afford coverage. The GOP created this #HealthcareHeist, and they can end the shutdown now by fixing their mistake.

The Administration must use all available options to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 people in the U.S. who need SNAP to afford their grocery bill. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

🚨 New research from @epi.org highlights a challenge we can’t ignore: The U.S.-born labor force is shrinking — and without continued immigration, we won’t be able to sustain normal GDP growth. 🧵 (1/8) www.epi.org/publication/...

Some #SNAP participants will begin to see their food assistance reduced or eliminated due to the Republican megabill, based on a memo from USDA on Friday outlining how states must begin implementing one of the new law’s SNAP cuts. fns.usda.gov/snap/admin/e...

⚠️ Colorado lawmakers return to the Capitol tomorrow—and more than 80 organizations are speaking up. They’re calling on legislators to protect schools, healthcare, and communities from deep cuts caused by federal tax changes. 🔗 Read the press release: ow.ly/vzwM50WJ76H

Sounds like Rep. Gabe Evans didn’t bother to read the Big Ugly Bill before voting it into law, condemning his most vulnerable constituents 👇 WATCH - Commissioner Emma Pinter speaking today in Northglenn, Colorado: #TaxJustice

We want to say a special thank you to our event partners in Pueblo for showing up and spreading the truth about this horrible new law 👇 Thank you @neweracolorado.bsky.social, @coloradofiscal.bsky.social, Center for Health Progress Join us here: bus.fairshareusa.org #TaxJustice

Eyal Press just dropped a powerful piece in The NewYorker on the fight for fair wages & worker power. He came to Colorado, met with organizers, and spoke with our labor analyst Sophie Mariam to dig into what’s really happening. A must-read. 🔗 ow.ly/FtW750WwqxV

Attacks on immigrant communities are threatening access to in-state tuition in Colorado. That’s not just unjust—it’s bad economic policy. Education Without Exceptions makes the case for protecting higher ed access for all Colorado students. 🔗 coloradofiscal.org/report-educa...

Two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Congress is coming for abortion access again. The OBBBA (H.R.1) would ban federal abortion funding + defund providers—even in states like Colorado. Read more 🔗 coloradofiscal.org/obbba-threat...

Or is it? It’s time for another Forecast Five, where CFI gets down in the details so you don’t have to. Check out our top five takeaways from the Legislative Council’s presentation on the economic and fiscal outlook for Colorado. 🔗 coloradofiscal.org/june-2025-fo...

Today is #LGBTQIAEqualPay Day. Did you know 16 states still don’t explicitly ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity—including in pay—in state law? Learn more about the wage gap at www.equalpay2day.org/. #PrideInYourPay

Colorado’s frontline grocery workers—many of whom helped keep our communities fed through the worst of the pandemic—are being pushed to the brink. Now, they're standing up. We stand with @UFCW_7 and striking Safeway/Albertsons workers across the state. #Solidarity #UnionStrong #copolitics

Senate Environment + Public Works Committee Republicans released their portion of the budget + tax proposal that is expected to raise energy bills and worsen pollution. The bill mostly mirrors the House bill + repeals many federal programs created by the IRA.

As protests erupt in CA over ICE raids, we’re reminded: when communities are pushed to the edge, they rise up. In CO, immigrant families are still essential, excluded, and over-taxed—paying in but locked out. It doesn’t have to be this way. 🔗 coloradofiscal.org/essential-ex...

NEW REPORT: House Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill, now in the Senate, would shift major new costs to the state- & local-level, paving the way for harmful cuts to food assistance, health care, & other services like education. Here’s the 3 top things to know:🧵

📉 Colorado’s economy is slowing — and our latest Jobs Watch report shows why. Unemployment is up, job growth is lagging, and strikes have played a key role. 📊 Get the full breakdown: coloradofiscal.org/jobswatch-qu... #COJobs #Economy #Unions #Colorado

Middle class = squeezed. Millionaires = spoiled. That’s the GOP tax plan. 🍋💸

CO Representative Jeff Hurd broke his promise and chose a “big, beautiful” tax giveaway for the ultra wealthy over the ability for 120,000 hardworking Coloradans to go see a doctor if they get sick. 🔗 Our response: ow.ly/fq3N50VXtaE

The ACA reconciliation policies have gotten scant coverage, even though they drive a quarter of coverage losses (before accounting for enhanced subsidy expiration) But 18 state-based marketplaces just sent a pretty blistering letter to the House about just how bad those policies are

The Republican mega bill is an attack on working families. It rips away health care. Slashes food assistance. Strips vital consumer protections. And guts cash-back tax credits that millions rely on to make ends meet. Get the facts: 🔗 ow.ly/Rxnb50VVYOm

Colorado’s Democratic legislature finally axed the 1943 “Labor Peace Act,” but Gov. Jared Polis—yes, a Democrat—vetoed the repeal, keeping an 82‑year anti‑union hurdle alive. 🔗https://prospect.org/labor/2025-05-19-democrats-union-busting-governor-polis-colorado/ #SB25-005