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Would you forget to tell your spouse or business partner about a multi-billion dollar windfall? Legislators learned on Thursday from Murphy Administration Treasurer Elizabeth Muoio that the state had received $6.3 billion in federal relief funds through the “American Rescue Plan” Act but, apparently, simply failed to mention it before now. Amazingly. – Muoio made the admission when questioned by state Senator Declan O’Scanlon (R-13) during her revenue update. “They received the whole hog last night – $6.3 billion – but didn’t think to mention it to the budget committee or anyb...

Republicans are pushing new voter ID requirements in Pa. and N.J. Updated May 08, 2021; Posted May 08, 2021 An elections inspector looks at a voter's ID card on Election Day, Nov. 6, 2012, in Harrisburg.Pennlive.com file photo Facebook Share Republicans wanting stricter voter identification provisions in Pennsylvania is emerging as an early flashpoint with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf in what GOP lawmakers cast as a top-to-bottom update of state election law following a presidential contest that former President Donald Trump still baselessly maintains was stolen from him. Wolf’s chief of staf...

During a tense hearing, N.J.’s top health official defends state’s response to nursing home crisis Updated Apr 21, 2021; Posted Apr 21, 2021 Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, top right, described to the Assembly Budget Committee Wednesday how state and local public health officials fought to stem the spread of the coronavirus inside long-term care facilities. Facebook Share State Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli on Wednesday defended her office’s response to the pandemic and the “devastating” toll it took on residents in long-term care facilities, noting the department...

N.J.’s unemployment benefits fiasco was caused by the feds, Labor chief says Updated Apr 21, 2021; Posted Apr 21, 2021 Thursday, May 7, 2020 - Robert Asaro-Angelo, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development at Governor Phil Murphy's coronavirus briefing in the George Washington Ballroom in the Trenton War Memorial, which also included Department of Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, Department of Health Communicable Disease Service Medical Director Dr. Edward Lifshitz, State Police Superintendent Colonel Patrick Callahan.Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance ...

Credit: (NJGOV) April 7, 2021: Treasurer Elizabeth Maher Muoio spoke before members of the Assembly Budget Committee. Lawmakers dug deeper into Gov. Phil Murphy’s latest state spending proposals as budget hearings continued Wednesday, questioning which areas could see big increases and how an overall record-high budget will be funded. A nearly $45 billion spending plan proposed by Murphy for the fiscal year beginning July 1 calls for holding the line on taxes while at the same time increasing spending in several key areas as the state continues to try to recover from the ongoing coronavirus...