What remains to be seen is whether a February news conference can lead to a sea change in fiscal policymaking in late June, when Democratic legislative leaders like to insert hundreds of millions in new spending into the state budget, without offsetting cuts or revenue raisers.
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In an interview with @njspotlightnews.org, U.S. Rep. Rob Menendez says NJ's pension fund should divest its stake in a technology firm doing business with ICE that I wrote about last month.
The legislation moving this year's gubernatorial budget message to March 10 has now been approved by both full houses of the NJ Legislature.
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As President Trump prepares to deliver the first State of the Union address of his second term, six in ten Americans say the country is in a worse place than a year ago. https://to.pbs.org/3OYgo69
‘People don’t know s—. A bunch of idiots out there’: Quinn Hughes defends brother jack after Olympic golden goal
Donald Trump stands at a podium with the presidential seal, holding a large board titled "Reciprocal Tariffs" listing percentages for various countries. The PBS News logo is in the corner of the graphic. The headline reads, "Supreme Court strikes down Trump's sweeping tariffs."
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump's global tariffs, a key part of his economic agenda during his second term.
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Six Republicans voted to terminate President Trump's Canada tariffs.
NJ Reps. Jeff Van Drew (R-2nd), Chris Smith (R-4th) and Tom Kean Jr. (R-7th) were not among them.
They each voted to maintain the tariffs.
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Work on the tunnel project is expected to resume next week, according to the Gateway Development Commission. The commission said it now has more than $205 million in hand, reports @bhulac.bsky.social @njspotlightnews.org
The Gateway Development Commission, the project’s overseer, reported “an initial disbursement of $30 million” and expected to receive $205 million in total, according to a statement it issued late Friday afternoon.
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The Trump administration fails in its attempt to block last week's order freeing up federal funding for the Gateway tunnel project.
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. . . the federal government is now expected to run a $23.1 trillion shortfall over the next nine years . . .
Getting a hearing in the Senate on Monday was legislation that would return diverted money to the state Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund. An earlier attempt to do that stalled in NJ's majority Democratic Legislature at the end of last year.
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More than $250M for NJ earmarks is coming after Congress passes a series of new spending bills, reports @bhulac.bsky.social @njspotlightnews.org
“As the court correctly recognized, the Trump Administration’s attempts to freeze funding for the Gateway Tunnel project are plainly illegal, and they would cause grave harm to New Jersey and New York,” said Jennifer Davenport, New Jersey’s acting attorney general.
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Just updated my super high-tech NJ property tax bill tracker with the 2025 data.
-New Jersey’s average property tax bill increased once again last year, rising to $10,570, setting another record high.
-$36.1 billion was raised from New Jersey property owners last year to support spending by local school districts and municipal and county governments.
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Dems DHS ask
-clear identification for immigration agents
-body cameras
-requirement of warrants signed by a judge
-language barring agents from entering sensitive locations, like schools, houses of worship and polling places
-legal bar against racially profiling people to detain
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NJ acting Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and Gov. Mikie Sherrill discuss the lawsuit NJ has filed against the Trump administration over Gateway funding during a news conference at Newark Penn Station.
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The funding worries come as prolonged record-breaking cold grips parts of the United States . . . In Toms River, an elderly homeless woman last month was found dead in her snow-covered car.
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“Time is not on our side and any delay is going to dramatically add to the cost of doing this project and, by the way, everybody knows we need to build this new tunnel.” said Tom Wright, president and CEO of the Regional Plan Association.
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“Any of the laws and the rights of the people in our state, if they’re violated by law enforcement, regardless of if it’s state, federal or county, you name it, [that] is something that we would want to make sure that we’re taking seriously,” acting NJ AG Jennifer Davenport said
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"One of the most important things that our state government can do, and any level of government, is to be thinking about the long-term, trying to improve peoples lives now, but also working to make decisions that protect our future generation,” Assemblyman Andrew Macurdy (D-Union) said.
As mounting economic pressures push more people into homelessness, volunteers and outreach workers traversed NJ this week for the state’s annual count of the homeless.
NJ homelessness is on a five-year upswing, according to Monarch Housing Associates, and advocates expect another increase in 2026.
"I think what I was calling for and I still call for and will call for is the recognition of the dignity of human beings, no matter what their legal status may be."
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NJ public-worker pension officials are being urged to divest a more than $130 million stake in a technology firm playing a key role in President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement.
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“Will you contact your congressional representatives . . . Will you ask them, for the love of God and the love of human beings, which can’t be separated, to vote against renewing funding for such a lawless organization?”
-- Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark
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As the Trump administration refuses to disburse funding for an economically vital rail tunnel under the Hudson River between New Jersey with Manhattan, construction will come to a halt, putting up to 1,000 jobs at-risk in the near-term.
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