A delicate dance: Maneuvering around CT’s budget cap

A delicate dance: Maneuvering around CT’s budget cap

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 its limit. A plan that already would underfund guaranteed worker benefits and shifts hundreds of millions off-budget to support child care and municipal aid would also abruptly boost, and then shrink, payments into the teachers’ pension fund — all t…