Gov. Jared Polis on Friday officially signed a $46.87 billion spending plan for the Colorado state government in the next fiscal year. His signature is the culmination of months of work by legislators, who resorted to cuts, transfers and other mechanisms to balance the 2026-27 budget amid a deficit of more than $1 billion. That spending plan is, in fact, larger than the current budget as approved by lawmakers a year ago. At the time, that budget stood at $43.9 billion. It had changed significantly since. The new budget goes into effect on July 1. The governor was flanked by members of the Joint Budget Committee, none of whom was happy about the spending plan, given the cuts to services for some of Colorado’s most vulnerable residents. “Nobody won in this budget,” said Rep. Rick Taggart, R-Grand Junction. Taggart recalled listening to testimony from families whose loved ones have intellectual and developmental disabilities. Caretaker pay for those families had been among the hardest hit in the budget.…