This afternoon at a hastily assembled press conference in the House Democrats’ conference room, House Speaker Chris Donovan and Senate President Don Williams told assembled press and staff that the gap between Governor M. Jodi Rell’s proposed budget and the projections put out by the legislature’s Office of Fiscal Analysis was a “reality gap.” Today the [...]
With the budget deficit for the current fiscal year ending this June continuing to grow, the legislature must once again go into a session to mitigate the shortfall. Efforts of legislative Democrats during the prior budget mitigation sessions have been inadequate, and they have failed to offer significant or meaningful cuts. They were certain to [...]
File this in the “Still Not Getting It” department. We knew that since Senate President Don Williams and House Speaker Chris Donovan have taken an “everything is on the table” approach, a tax increase from legislative Democrats was likely in the future. Now the first 22 Democratic members of the legislature have called for tax [...]
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