Sen. Gordon Applauds Bipartisan Five-Year Extension of Republican Fiscal Guardrails

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February 10, 2023

Sen. Gordon Applauds Bipartisan Five-Year Extension of Republican Fiscal Guardrails

Senate, House extend fiscal budget controls championed by Republican lawmakers in 2017, leading the way to present $3.3 billion CT budget surplus

HARTFORD – State Sen. Jeff Gordon (R-Woodstock), member of the legislature’s Appropriations Committee, applauded the General Assembly’s extension of budget controls enacted in 2017 as a result of legislative Republicans’ effort to control state spending and bolster the then-deficient state rainy day fund. The extension of these “fiscal guardrails” through 2028 earned bipartisan support in both legislative chambers, although the new agreement originally included a 10-year extension.

The agreement was part of an omnibus bill that included four unrelated measures addressing school lunch funding and a clean hydrogen program grant, special education funding, adjustments to the state’s “Bottle Bill” and the management of state employee candidate lists.

Senator Gordon said, “I am proud to support the fiscal safeguards that promote responsible use of our taxpayers’ money. My hope is that the legislature exercises discipline throughout the entire budget process to build upon what we did yesterday. Since 1992, people have been calling for these measures, and in 2017 Republicans delivered. I am pleased that these budget safeguards are now extended for five years. Although the original agreement was a 10-year extension, this is a step in the right direction. Let’s use our hard-earned money with care and common sense, because it belongs to the taxpayers and not the government.”

Read the complete bill here.

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