By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics
Colorado House lawmakers on Thursday spent their day wrestling with the state’s 2024-25 budget, and there was plenty to fight about.
Lawmakers have begun reviewing the state’s spending plan for the next fiscal year in the face of tight revenues and a budget deficit — even as policymakers are pushing for hundreds of millions of dollars in funding requests. All told, the draft budget for fiscal year 2024-25 expects to spend $40.6 billion — $2 billion more than last year, driven by bigger allocations for health care, a significant expansion in the state’s workforce and more money for schools seeing increased enrollment of immigrant students.
The fight in the House started with some of the measures that accompanied the budget.