CT on pace for tiny $6 million budget deficit, Comptroller projects

CT Mirror – Wednesday, April 1, 2026
By Keith M. Phaneuf

State Comptroller Sean Scanlon projected Wednesday that Gov. Ned Lamont is just a few months away from the first formal budget deficit of his administration, albeit one almost too small to measure.

And the $6 million shortfall Scanlon is tracking, roughly equal to 1/40th of 1% of the $27.2 billion budget’s General Fund, wouldn’t exist if the state still followed the pre-2017 budget rules.

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