Senators Looney and Duff: When Will Connecticut Republicans Wake Up to the Real Crisis Coming from Trump's Washington?

October 10, 2025

On October 7, 2025, Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney (D-New Haven) and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) released the following statement in response to Connecticut Republicans' calls to change budget oversight and appropriations procedures:

"Connecticut Republicans' sudden concern about transparency is predictably hypocritical. They're silent about the massive actual corruption happening in Washington under Donald Trump. Trump's border czar getting $50,000 in a paper bag to steer contracts, Trump's foreign bailout for billionaire donors, Trump's constant leverage of the government for his own enrichment, and Trump's administration hiding the Epstein files and considering a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell.

"We are working on a special session to mitigate the economic damage and health care crisis unleashed by Trump's toxic policies on the people of Connecticut. Our state needs to make critical decisions about how to stop rising insurance premiums, increasing higher education costs, tariffs that are crippling small businesses, and people from losing lifesaving care. The very foundation of our state's economy and health care system is under attack. What will it take to get Connecticut Republicans to focus on the real damage happening in our state right now?"

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Senators Looney and Duff: When Will Connecticut Republicans Wake Up to the Real Crisis Coming from Trump's Washington?

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