NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday that he is preparing to call the legislature into a special session in order to spend state dollars to counteract the impacts of the federal government shutdown and to divert as much as half a billion dollars from Connecticut's budget surplus to address other rollbacks emanating from Washington D.C.

Lamont's Monday remarks are in response to questions from reporters and seemed to outline a two-pronged response to the deluge of policy changes in the nation's capital.

The first prong Lamont described is new state spending to address the rapidly shifting fallout of the government shutdown. The second prong will see hundreds of millions of surplus dollars set aside to counteract the effects of President Donald Trump's signature budge

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