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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is proposing a year of “belt-tightening” to make up for softening inflation and higher Medicaid costs. He presented his budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year on Friday afternoon. It doesn’t account for Tuesday’s elections, which include some potentially costly measures on the state ballot. The next legislature, which is also being elected Tuesday, will ultimately pass the budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins July 1. Polis, a Democrat in his final term, sought to cover a projected shortfall of about $640 million shortfall that was largely driven by high caseload costs for Medicaid patients.

If Donald Trump reclaims the White House, he will have one voting demographic to thank for it: men. That’s the fundamental theory of the Trump campaign. In the election’s final weeks, the former President and his political operation have sought to activate low-to-mid propensity male voters, particularly young ones, with surgical precision to sweep him back into power.

Denver election officials say the vote-counting process is likely to extend for days after Election Day because of high interest and a long city ballot. But voters can help the Denver Elections Division provide a clearer picture of election results on Tuesday night by turning in their ballots sooner, either over the weekend or on Monday. “Because so many ballots come in at the same time on Election Day, it could potentially cause a backlog,” Denver Clerk and Recorder’s Office spokeswoman Mikayla Ortega said Friday.

There’s one line in the sprawling, 900-hundred page document known as Project 2025 that sketches out a plan to eliminate hundreds of millions dollars of federal money meant to help protect some of the most disadvantaged people in the country from pollution and the effects of global warming. Project 2025, crafted by the conservative-think tank the Heritage Foundation, is widely acknowledged to be a blueprint for a potential Trump presidency—despite his efforts to distance himself from it.

A video purporting to show recently arrived Haitian immigrants illegally voting in Georgia for Kamala Harris was produced by a Russian government-backed disinformation unit, according to US authorities. Three agencies—the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence—said in a joint news release Friday that the video, which circulated widely on Twitter/X, was manufactured by “Russian influence actors.” The same group, they wrote, was also behind “a video falsely accusing an individual associated with the Democratic presidential ticket of taking a bribe from a U.

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and AAMER MADHANI MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Kamala Harris said Friday it was “disqualifying” for Donald Trump to say former Rep. Liz Cheney, one of the former president’s most prominent Republican critics, should have rifles “shooting at her” to see how she feels about sending troops to fight. The Democratic vice president has campaigned extensively with Cheney, especially in the “blue wall” battleground states that make up her strongest path to victory on Tuesday, while Trump has been going after the former Wyoming congresswoman and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, over the Iraq war and U.