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 ...

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 ...

Connecticut’s General Assembly voted on Monday to exceed the state’s spending cap for the first time in nearly two decades to fix a $300 million Medicaid shortfall this year. The bill passed by a vote ...

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 ...