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. @COHouseDem Comms Director @JarrettFreedman says we "offered no solutions." We offered 63 amendments to the budget. He must have forgotten why we spent 9 hours on the floor yesterday. Here's a reminder:

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1. Temporary cuts to the salaries of VERY well-paid government bureaucrats who are getting off scott-free while Coloradans are losing their jobs left and right. $950,000.

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#copolitics #coleg 2/A Million
2. Withdraw funding from the MONEY LOSING State Fair. $875,000

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#copolitics #coleg 3/A Million
3. Cut unnecessary funding from the Governor's mansion that he doesn't use anyway. $90,797

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#copolitics #coleg 4/A Million
4. Another one to cut funding from the Governor's mansion, which again, he doesn't use. $225,797

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#copolitics #coleg 5/A Million
5. Remove one of the two salaries the Lieutenant Governor is receiving. $197,391

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#copolitics #coleg 6/A Million
6. Eliminate the highly dumb (at this critical time) appropriation to Film, Television, and Media. Once again, @COHouseDem prioritized Dumb & Dumber Hollywood spending. $769,525

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#copolitics #coleg 7/A Million
7. Completely eliminating Film subsidies so we can stop paying for Hollywood Producers' Vacations. $250,000

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#copolitics #coleg 8/A Million
8. Eliminate funding to the Office of Information Technology which has been inefficient and unreliable for years. $8,499,562

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#copolitics #coleg 9/A Million
9. Eliminate the unnecessary and expensive "All-Payer Claims Database." $3,795,498

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#copolitics #coleg 10/A Million
10. Reduce funds from Customer Outreach in the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. We don't need to spend money on unneeded advertising campaigns. $666,667

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#copolitics #coleg 11/A Million
11. Stop giving, and we mean GIVING, money to illegal immigrants through Higher Education grants. $905,500

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#copolitics #coleg 12/A Million
12. Cut 12.5% from the the highest paid college professors and administrators (making well over six figures a year). $129,253,750

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#copolitics #coleg 13/A Million
13. Cut salaries for the highest paid college professors and administrators (again, making over six figures, unaffected, in a crisis) to the equivalent of two month's salary. So much for the little guy. $173,124,903

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#copolitics #coleg 14/A Million
14. Reduce funding from 22 appropriations to the Department of Human Services, totaling $163,663,420

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#copolitics #coleg 15/A Million
15. Cut the salaries of Colorado Supreme Court Justices, who have also been unaffected by fiscal crisis. $752,602

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#copolitics #coleg 16/A Million
16. Eliminate funding for the Eviction Legal Defense Grant Program, which essentially pays trial lawyers to sue landlords. $1,200,000

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#copolitics #coleg 17/A Million
17. Reduce the appropriation for Government Fleet Vehicle Replacements. $10,122,794

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#copolitics #coleg 18/A Million
18. Reduces the appropriation for Public Health and Environment for Stationary Sources. $168,249

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#copolitics #coleg 19/A Million
19. Reduces the appropriation for Immunization Operating Expenses at CDPHE. $1,500,000

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#copolitics #coleg 20/A Million
20. Reduces appropriation for Government purchased and distributed contraceptives. Why should people rely on the taxpayers to pay for this during an economic crisis? $4,045,542

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#copolitics #coleg 21/A Million
21. Another reduction in appropriations for Government purchased and distributed contraceptives, but asking for less this time. $3,034,156

@COHouseDem @JarrettFreedman
#copolitics #coleg 22/A Million
22. Cuts funding from CDPHE and prohibits family planning funding from going to Abortion providers who end human lives on a daily basis. $2,022,711

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#copolitics #coleg 23/A Million
23. Reduces funding for School-Based Health Centers. $1,002,467

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#copolitics #coleg 24/A Million
24. Eliminates the appropriation for the unnecessary and invasion "Healthy Kids Colorado Survey" which asks personal questions and delivers unreliable results. $752,416

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#copolitics #coleg 25/A Million
25. Eliminates the appropriation for the radical sex-education program. $493,000

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#copolitics #coleg 26/A Million
26. A classic, cuts funding from the Governor's AIRPLANE. $779,661

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#copolitics #coleg 27/A Million
27. Eliminates all funding from the Civil Rights Commission in the Department of Regulatory Agencies. $2,337,399

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#copolitics #coleg 28/A Million
28. Eliminates the program that gives Driver's Licenses to illegal immigrants. $3,043,674

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#copolitics #coleg 29/A Million
29. 1% cut from every government agency across the board, with the exception of education. $72,779,964

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#copolitics #coleg 30/A Million
30. 1/2% cut from every government agency across the board with the exception of education. $36,439,983

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#copolitics #coleg 31/A Million
31. Equal cuts from various departments totaling the entire cost of the Senior Homestead Exemption. $163,663,422

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#copolitics #coleg 32/A Million
32. Cuts funding from the State Fair, Governor's Mansion, and various other departments. $211,344,551

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#copolitics #coleg 33/A Million
33. Cuts $250,000 from Film, TV, and Media subsidies and gives the money to schools. Again, Hollywood takes priority over our kids.

@COHouseDem @JarrettFreedman
#copolitics #coleg 34/A Million
34. Cuts money from the State Vehicle Fleet. $100,000

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#copolitics #coleg 35/A Million
35. Redistributes over $5,000,000 from the State Fleet Vehicles and gives the money to our schools. $5,061,397

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#copolitics #coleg 36/A Million
36. Takes money from the Governor's office and puts it towards school safety. $323,338

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#copolitics #coleg 37/A Million
37. Another one that takes money from the Governor's office and puts it towards school safety. $2,500,000

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#copolitics #coleg 38/A Million
38. Eliminates Hollywood Film subsidies and gives the money to school safety. $519,525

@COHouseDem @JarrettFreedman
#copolitics #coleg 39/A Million
39. Cuts Hollywood Film subsidies and gives the money to school safety. $250,000

@COHouseDem @JarrettFreedman
#copolitics #coleg 40/A Million
40. Cuts funding for the invasive and unneeded "Healthy Kids Colorado Survey" and gives it to the School Safety Fund... to, you know, actually keep kids safe. $752.416

@COHouseDem @JarrettFreedman
#copolitics #coleg 41/A Million
41. Redistributes money from the radical kids sex-ed program and once again gives it to School Safety. $493,000

@COHouseDem @JarrettFreedman
#copolitics #coleg 42/A Million
42. Takes $70 Million from the CARES Act to backfill the Unemployment Compensation Fund.

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#copolitics #coleg 43/A Million
43. Takes $1 Million from the Governor's Office to pay for Capitol Cleanup that resulted from the Denver riots.

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#copolitics #coleg 44/A Million
44. Takes money from the Judicial Department and gives it to the Water Conservation Board. $2,868,888

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#copolitics #coleg 45/A Million
45. Takes money from the Judicial Department and gives it to the Medical Services Premiums for PACE. $5,737,776

@COHouseDem @JarrettFreedman
#copolitics #coleg 46/A Million
46. Cuts funds for state fleet vehicles and gives it to the Medical Services Premiums for PACE. $7,592,095

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#copolitics #coleg 47/A Million
47. Takes money from the Judicial Department and gives it to the DHS for Older American Act Programs. $108,116,486

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#copolitics #coleg 48/A Million
48. Takes money from the Judicial Department and gives it to Higher Ed. $242,740

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#copolitics #coleg 49/A Million
49. Redistributes money from Government contraceptive program and gives the money to Higher Education for Cybercoding programs. $2,000,000

@COHouseDem @JarrettFreedman
#copolitics #coleg 50/A Million
50. Cuts funding from radical sex ed programs and gives it to Higher Education. $493,000

@COHouseDem @JarrettFreedman
#copolitics #coleg 51/A Million
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