It remains unclear whether a 5.93% increase in spending will cover growing needs in core programs — or offset vanishing ...

For more than 30 years, one of the single largest factors shaping Connecticut’s budget has been its spending cap. Legislatures and governors have trimmed countless programs to stay under the cap, ...

Despite the bipartisan praise lavished on Connecticut’s budget constraints, officials never have fully embraced them, spending hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years outside the “fiscal ...

House Speaker Matt Ritter and Gov. Ned Lamont have found a compromise on CT's spending cap. MARK PAZNIOKAS / CT MIRROR State officials are poised to legally exceed Connecticut’s spending cap for the ...

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 ...

State officials have underfunded key contractual obligations in Connecticut’s budget by hundreds of millions of dollars for the second consecutive year, knowing the rest of the plan will generate more ...

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 ...

(L-R) Nora Duncan, Connecticut State Director, AARP; U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal; and U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy were at Arrow Pharmacy in Hartford highlighting an out-of-pocket drug spending cap under ...