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Murphy focuses on affordability in budget address as federal uncertainty looms

February 25, 2025 5:48 pmFebruary 26, 2025 7:30 am

Gov. Phil Murphy proposed a $58.05 billion budget during his final budget address Tuesday afternoon, a slight uptick from last year’s initial budget as officials work to shrink the structural deficit. Under the governor’s proposed fiscal year 2026 budget, spending...

News briefs: the statehouse’s reopening, Aikens’ voter registration, Mastrangelo’s missing votes

May 1, 2023 5:28 pmMay 2, 2023 10:28 am

Statehouse officially, finally, truly reopens Gov. Phil Murphy and a cavalcade of elected officials officially marked the reopening of the New Jersey Statehouse today, six years after the project to overhaul the crumbling, centuries-old building began. “What we have now...

Murphy signs budget, takes victory lap with legislative leadership

June 30, 2022 2:10 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy signed New Jersey’s Fiscal Year 2023 Budget into law today after both houses of state legislature passed the bill on mostly party-line votes yesterday, thus ending a process that began with the governor’s budget address in early...

Murphy’s name will appear on tax rebate checks

July 1, 2021 3:47 pmMarch 23, 2022 3:32 pm

This article was updated with comment from Gov. Phil Murphy at 4:22 p.m. Gov. Phil Murphy’s name, but not his signature, will appear on tax rebate checks the state will send to certain New Jerseyans with at least one dependent...

Ciattarelli joins chorus of GOP criticism over rosy revenue collections

June 10, 2021 2:05 pmJune 10, 2021 7:32 pm

This article was updated with comment from Alyana Alfaro Post, Gov. Phil Murphy’s press secretary, at 3:32 p.m. Republican Gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli joined the chorus of GOP critics taking aim at better-than-expected revenue collections Thursday, charging Gov. Phil Murphy’s...

Division of investments director to resign next month

May 12, 2021 3:44 pm

New Jersey Division of Investments Director Corey Amon will leave his post on June 4, the state Treasury announced Wednesday. “The experience I have gained at the Division has afforded me a new career opportunity that I am excited to...

Murphy holds the line on borrowing despite rosy revenues

April 7, 2021 4:11 pmApril 7, 2021 9:47 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy declined to say whether he, like Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford), regretted bonding $4 billion to plug a hole in the state’s revenues that never fully materialized Wednesday. The governor argued the state needed the money...