Colorado’s fiscal mess isn’t the result of bad luck. It’s the result of bad decisions.
And now, Gov. Jared Polis has called a special legislative session to clean it up, hoping Coloradans won’t notice who created the mess in the first place.
The recent federal legislation, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” or HR1, triggered this latest scramble. It will hit Colorado harder than almost any other state, with an estimated $1.2 billion loss in revenue for the 2025–26 fiscal year and added expenses that could total nearly $3 billion over time…