By Shaun Boyd | CBS Colorado
The Republican spending bill is helping unite the Democratic Party after days of infighting over a GOP resolution to avert a shutdown. Party leaders called for a Medicaid Day of Action to protest the spending bill that they say will mean drastic cuts to Medicaid.
The party turned to two heavy hitters in Colorado — Gov. Jared Polis and Rep. Joe Neguse, who represents Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District — who held an event at Clinica Family Health in Lafayette to sound an alarm.
“$880 billion of cuts to Medicaid would dismantle the Medicaid program as we know it, and it would mean that hundreds of thousands of Coloradans would no longer have access to health care,” warned Neguse.
The GOP resolution directs the Energy and Commerce Committee — which oversees Medicaid — to cut the deficit by $880 billion over the next decade.