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Democrats predict swift adoption of next CT budget
Insist Lamont and lawmakers must compromise on tax reform issues
House Speaker Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, and Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven.
With state tax receipts booming and billions of federal pandemic relief dollars flowing into Connecticut, leaders of the legislature’s Democratic majority on Wednesday predicted swift adoption of a new state budget.
Democratic legislative leaders, who are still at odds with Gov. Ned Lamont over several proposals to shift tax burdens from the poor and middle class onto the rich, also predicted they would make progress in this area without an adversarial showdown with the fiscally moderate-to-conservative governor.
Published May 15. 2021 7:12PM
KEITH M. PHANEUF, The Connecticut Mirror
Majority House Democrats will unveil a compromise this coming week to enable greater investments in poor cities while avoiding the transparency issues and hefty tax hikes that have bogged down a competing Senate Democratic plan.
“I think we’re all very sympathetic” to the poverty concentrated in the state’s urban centers, said House Speaker Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, whose community faces one of the heaviest burdens in Connecticut.
The speaker and other House Democratic leaders are trying to find middle ground between Gov. Ned Lamont and other fiscally moderate-to-conservative Democrats and the more liberal wing of the party.
Mark Pazniokas :: CTMirror.org
Sen. John Fonfara (left) and House Speaker Matt Ritter, two Hartford Democrats, are trying to expand state investments to ease urban poverty.
Majority House Democrats will unveil a compromise next week to enable greater investments in poor cities while avoiding the transparency issues and hefty tax hikes that have bogged down a competing Senate Democratic plan.
“I think we’re all very sympathetic” to the poverty concentrated in the state’s urban centers, said House Speaker Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, whose community faces one of the heaviest burdens in Connecticut.
The speaker and other House Democratic leaders are trying to find middle ground between Gov. Ned Lamont and other fiscally moderate-to-conservative Democrats and the more liberal wing of the party.