{"id":52199,"date":"2020-08-12T17:20:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T23:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/5-new-insights-into-polis-coronavirus-response-and-how-covid-19-affects-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:58:57","slug":"5-new-insights-into-polis-coronavirus-response-and-how-covid-19-affects-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/5-new-insights-into-polis-coronavirus-response-and-how-covid-19-affects-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"5 new insights into Polis\u2019 coronavirus response and how COVID-19 affects Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c77979e0-e32f-4523-831f-cd274061715e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1017\" alt=\"Gov. Jared Polis speaks to reporters at a coronavirus testing site set up at Water World in Federal Heights on Aug. 10.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Gov. Jared Polis speaks to reporters at a coronavirus testing site set up at Water World in Federal Heights on Aug. 10.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jesse Paul\/The Colorado Sun<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Jared Polis\u2019 top deputies appeared before a panel of leading state lawmakers on Tuesday to talk about the governor\u2019s response to the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Polis\u2019 surrogates outlined how Colorado has spent billions in federal aid and the ways in which the governor has used his executive authority to prevent COVID-19 from spreading out of control.<\/p>\n<p>The day-long hearing was a result of a bill passed by state lawmakers in recent months in an effort to provide them with more oversight over and insight into how the governor has handled the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five big takeaways from the hearing:<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">$19 billion in federal aid, but more is needed<\/div>\n<p>Colorado has received more than $19 billion in federal coronavirus aid since the pandemic began, the largest portion \u2014 $10 billion \u2014 of which came in the form of Paycheck Protection Program loans to small and medium-sized businesses.<\/p>\n<p>(The Colorado Sun was a recipient of one such loan)<\/p>\n<p>Another $4.4 billion flowed to the state in the form of direct stimulus checks to Coloradans, while $1 billion went toward increasing unemployment benefits for people who lost their jobs.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_headline2-18\">&lt;URL destination=\u201dhttps:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2020\/08\/11\/colorado-coronavirus-response-jared-polis\/\u201d&gt;Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, journalist-owned news outlet exploring issues of statewide interest. Sign up for a newsletter and read more at coloradosun.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_headline2-18\">&lt;URL destination=\u201dhttps:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2020\/08\/11\/colorado-coronavirus-response-jared-polis\/\u201d&gt;Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Administration called before state lawmakers to talk about spending and decisions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[394,233,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-52199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado-legislature","tag-coloradosun-com","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88055,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52199\/revisions\/88055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52199"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=52199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}