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Lamont works around CT budget ‘guardrails’ to back child care

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Gov. Ned Lamont will propose a $55.2 billion , two-year budget Wednesday .

He will offer a modest $ 50 income tax cut for middle-class families, sources say.

Lamont has opened the door, albeit modestly, to reforming the budget controls that have dominated state finances.

Gov. Lamont also wants to revisit the state’s hospital tax, a controversial levy that officials and the industry have grappled with for a decade-and-a-half.

Sources say traditional state aid for public colleges and universities would grow modestly.

The governor also wants modestly more from its largest employers, sources say.