CT Senate GOP: “Spending Discipline Works”

Sen. Eric Berthel, Sen. Henri Martin and Sen. Stephen Harding today issued the following statement regarding a report released to the Connecticut Comptroller’s office which highlights how the state’s bipartisan fiscal guardrails have resulted in the paying down of more than $8 billion in accumulated state employee and teacher pension debt, and how that payoff will translate to $18.4 billion in annual payment savings and interest.

“Spending discipline works. It works in family budgets. Spending discipline works in state government as well.

Spending discipline – which Connecticut Republicans successfully pushed to enact in 2017 when we had a tied State Senate – is bringing long-term positive results for struggling middle class families. We are chipping away at our state’s crushing credit card debt. That pay down is not only lessening our budget burdens: It is freeing up money for vital human services to help support our most vulnerable residents. It is also enabling much-needed tax cuts.

We must stay the course and preserve that discipline in our budgeting. Any Democrats who say they want to ‘adjust’, ‘tweak’ or ‘update’ our common sense fiscal guardrails in 2025 also want to raise our state taxes. It’s as simple as that.”