With $6.4B in COVID aid coming, here come the spending ideas
TRENTON State lawmakers began their formal review of Gov. Phil Murphy’s proposed budget Wednesday, holding the first of four public hearings to solicit testimony from residents and, more typically, interest groups.
Assembly Budget Committee chairwoman Eliana Pintor Marin, D-Essex, said these are unprecedented times due to the devastating coronavirus pandemic and resulting health and economic suffering.
“Gov. Murphy has proposed his $44.8 billion budget that addresses some of these issues and problems that we are facing,” Pintor Marin said. “However, the proposed budget won’t look the same once it gets through the Legislature.”