Lawmakers carve a new path around CT budget cap

CT Mirror – Tuesday, July 15, 2025
By Keith M. Phaneuf

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 than enough surplus to cover the problem.

This underfunding allows legislators to assign more dollars to education, municipal aid and other core programs without violating budget caps.

And then, once the budget is in force — and those seemingly intentional shortfalls have been certified officially — legislators have the emergency authority to order extra spending and meet all legal obligations, also without violating the caps.

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