DAILY NEWS CLIP: February 5, 2025

Lamont works around CT budget ‘guardrails’ to back child care


CT Mirror – Tuesday, February 4, 2025
By Keith M. Phaneuf

After years of endorsing Connecticut’s budget “guardrails,” Gov. Ned Lamont will propose a $55.2 billion, two-year budget Wednesday that maneuvers around these caps to invest big dollars in child care and offer a modest $50 income tax cut for middle-class households, according to sources familiar with the plan.

Lamont also wants to revisit the state’s hospital tax, a controversial levy that officials and the industry have grappled with for a decade-and-a-half.

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