Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration has directed all state agencies to tally their unspent federal pandemic relief by Monday and update totals on the soon-to-expire grants monthly thereafter.
The directive from Lamont’s budget director, Jeffrey Beckham, was issued around 11 a.m. Friday, just hours after The Connecticut Mirror published a story in which legislative leaders from both parties scolded the administration. Lawmakers want to use whatever is left of the $2.8 billion that state government received through the American Rescue Plan Act to supplement higher education, social services, health care and other core services in the next state budget.
