Gov. Ned Lamont and the legislature don't see eye-to-eye on the spending cap. Credit: Stephen Busemeyer / CT Mirror The showdown between Gov. Ned Lamont and the General Assembly over the budgetary ...

The Connecticut state Capitol on May 8, 2024, the final night of the 2024 legislative session. Credit: Stephen Busemeyer / CT Mirror Connecticut’s “fiscal guardrails” have barred lawmakers from ...

State officials are poised to legally exceed Connecticut’s spending cap for the first time in nearly two decades to avert a crisis in paying Medicaid bills — and to pave the way for a new two-year ...

As legislators and Gov. Ned Lamont scrambled last week to craft a new budget before Wednesday’s deadline, they groped for the latest in a string of maneuvers around a spending cap already strained to ...

The state legislature voted Monday to spend an additional $284 million on Medicaid in a compromise deal that exceeded the state’s spending cap and paved the way to craft a new, two-year state budget.

Gov. Ned Lamont told a business audience Wednesday that Connecticut’s spending cap, one of the so-called fiscal guardrails that have constrained state spending in a time of record budget surpluses, is ...

The showdown between Gov. Ned Lamont and the General Assembly over the budgetary spending cap seemingly sprang up in the last two weeks around a growing crisis in special education. But the seeds of ...