Two days after the Colorado Legislature ended a special session where it raised taxes on businesses to close a $750 million budget shortfall, Gov. Jared Polis announced $252 million in budget savings.

The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing -- which administers Medicaid -- will see the biggest cut. It will lose $79 million.

The governor also cut nearly $13 million from higher education, almost $4 million from the Department of Corrections, for transgender health care, about $2 million for the state's two mental health hospitals, and $631,000 for health care for undocumented women and children.

Polis says his goal was to spare K-12 education and public safety and spread the pain across several state departments, both of which he did.

In addition to budget cuts, he pul

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