A tension between fiscal restraint and social justice was evident throughout the governor’s budget address.
2020 State Budget
CT budget is poised to weather coronavirus crisis – for now
COVID-19 is certain to pose fiscal challenges for Connecticut — but keeping the state’s books in balance in the short term isn’t one of them.
Lamont is lenient on spending cap — when it comes to partnership with Dalio
For the second time in two years, Lamont wants to keep state’s $20 million contribution outside the spending cap.
Best of 2019: Partisan battle heats up over whether new CT budget is balanced
Republican leaders argue it is unbalanced and unconstitutional, relying on labor savings still to be negotiated.
Lamont gives nursing homes a temporary reprieve
Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration offered nine embattled nursing homes a brief reprieve Thursday from deep, ordered cuts in state funding. The Department of Social Services effectively suspended plans to reduce one-and-a-half months’ worth of funding to these homes, which have large numbers of vacant beds.
Lamont, lawmakers dodged spending cap to pump $20M into public-private school partnership
Gov. Ned Lamont and the legislature dodged the spending cap to make an initial $20 million investment in a public-private partnership to assist struggling schools.
Lamont signs new budget, says it will bring stability to CT
Gov. Ned Lamont signed the new $43.4 billion, two-year state budget into law Wednesday, hailing it as a plan that averts a big deficit without raising income tax rates.
Fasano: State has only begun pursuing health care savings built into new budget
The same day Gov. Ned Lamont was criticized for not finalizing health care savings already assumed in the next budget, the state formally solicited bids for cost containment specialist to assist with this endeavor.
Partisan battle heats up over whether new CT budget is balanced
Republican leaders argue it is unbalanced and unconstitutional, relying on labor savings still to be negotiated.
A tale of two budgets: Senate Dems back plan over GOP objections
Democrats hailed the $43.4 billion budget as a historic plan that averts a big deficit without raising income tax rates. Republicans called it irresponsible.
House adopts $43B budget, Senate approval expected Tuesday
The House of Representatives approved a new state budget late Monday that averts a major projected deficit without increasing income tax rates, but does shift billions of dollars in pension debt onto the next generation of taxpayers.
Panel overseeing Dalio’s investment in CT schools would be exempt from ethics, disclosure laws
The panel overseeing $300 million in private and public funding would be exempt from ethics and disclosure rules.
In a $43B budget, there’s always room for pork
Supporters call the designation of $9.4 million for small projects a way of meeting local needs. Critics call it “pork-barrel” spending.
Lawmakers hope to adopt budget Monday that avoids another income tax hike
Legislators will open the session’s final week expected to pass a new state budget that keeps income tax rates flat and expands the sales tax.
Budget deal struck, doesn’t contain tax hike on wealthy
Gov. Ned Lamont and Democratic legislative leaders agree to $43 billion budget that does not contain the income tax hike on the wealthy sought by progressives in the General Assembly.