Gov. Murphy & Company’s latest sleight of hand is one of the least convincing magic tricks the Democrats have ever tried to pull off. It’s a new bill, one that screams that the public health emergency in NJ is OFFICIALLY OVER.
Sort of.
It’s Bill A 5777 and it purports to “end” the public health emergency. And, what’s more, it goes on to revoke any executive order the governor made in response to the public health emergency, since, according to the bill, there IS no longer a public emergency.
Sounds reasonable right? Oh . except for one thing. I mean 15 things. There are 15 COVID-19 related executive orders that are excluded from the bill. Not to mention the fact that one paragraph of the bill states outright that if he sees spikes again, the governor can completely go back to restricting us.
TRENTON, New Jersey (WABC) Governor Phil Murphy said Wednesday that New Jersey expects to have all schools open for full-time in person learning by the start of the 2021-2022 academic year.
The state has now distributed more than 3 million COVID-19 vaccines, with 1.1 million people fully vaccinated, and Murphy said the focus on vaccinating teachers will only increase safety at schools that are already showing low transmission rates.
He said there have only been 800 cases linked to in-person learning since August 1, out of 565,000 confirmed cases statewide. He also said the biggest shift back to in-person learning has been in the last week, and more than half of all schools are at least on a hybrid system.
NEW JERSEY (WABC) We now know how New Jersey will benefit from the $1.9 trillion dollar COVID relief bill that was signed into law by President Joe Biden Thursday.
More than $10.2 billion is heading to New Jersey to help the state comeback financially after a year of battling the coronavirus.
Gov. Phil Murphy was joined by Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker in Elizabeth Friday morning to discuss how billions in federal funding are being allocated to the state.
The $6 billion we will be receiving from the American Rescue Plan means:
Shots in arms
Emergency rental relief
Support for our frontline workers