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With the House out of town and the Senate far from a deal, funding for the federal government is set to run out on October 1st.

Federal funding cuts leave Colorado to decide how long it can sustain Planned Parenthood.

Denver businessman Kent Thiry says he’s not abandoning the ideal of independent redistricting, but he doesn’t blame blue states for trying to respond to Texas’ new map.

Democrats at the Capitol also pushed back the start date of Colorado’s first-in-the-nation AI law, shored up subsidies on health insurance and tweaked a pair of measures on the November ballot.

Two bills passed in Colorado's special session aim to safeguard safety-net programs. One boosts state funding for SNAP food assistance, the other guarantees Medicaid coverage at Planned Parenthood clinics.

Chief among lawmakers’ tasks is plugging a roughly $750 million hole in the state budget caused by the Republican federal tax and spending bill. But there’s plenty more on the docket.

State grants for transportation, infrastructure, energy projects and more will come with new housing policy requirements, starting this fall.

For starters, workers at the facility, managed by the private company GEO, declined to tell the representatives how many detainees were inside.

To close the funding gap, the state also enters a hiring freeze.

Dozens of new Colorado laws take effect this week and they cover more than you might expect.