A thousand here, a thousand there, New Jersey’s state budget total typically gets rounded to the nearest $100 million or so. But written out in the 373-page spending bill agreed upon this week, the full scope can be better appreciated in all 11 digits: $56,635,803,000.
To be fully transparent, that does not include the federal funding that is also allocated in the same statute, coming to another $27,501,993,844.
Taken together, down to the dollar, that’s a whopping $84,137,796,844 for New Jersey state government to spend in the next year.