Gov. Ned Lamont issued line-item vetos on Monday for several measures, including an extra $40 million in additional funding for special education that West Hartford leaders testified about at a recent public hearing.

By Doug Hardy, CTNewsJunkie.com 

Gov. Ned Lamont returned from India with a new trade deal, a broken arm in a sling, and some stern comments for both major parties in the General Assembly about off-budget plans to increase spending by $42.88 million, mostly on special education.

He opened the news conference explaining how he’d slipped on wet marble and fallen during his trip to India, breaking his left arm.

However, Lamont said he was surprised to hear that while he was away the legislature – with overwhelming bipartisan support – had emergency-certified $40 million in additional funds for special education for the current year, more than a full year ahead of when the Lamont administration had planned a similar increase in the second year of the new budget biennium. Lawmakers also approved $2.88 million to fund grants for 33 nonprofit service providers that were hit with cuts from the Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency. The grants included $800,000 for Planned Parenthood.

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