Gov. Phil Murphy spent the day huddling with Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin trying to find a compromise. If they can compromise on a state budget and how best to raise revenue in New Jersey, they’ll avert a government shutdown on July 1. Murphy spoke late Thursday afternoon in a news conference:

Murphy: We have acted with an unprecedented transparency. We have provided the Senate President and the speaker and their teams all of the data proving the validity of our numbers and that theirs, not all but in many cases, weren’t real. This is not Donald Trump’s Washington. We do not work with alt facts. We work with real numbers because the lives of the 9 million people who sent us here to work for them deserve our best. This is also not Chris Christie’s New Jersey. I am here to try to pull us out of the hole that Gov. Christie and his enablers dug us into over the past eight years, and I will not allow us to keep digging. … We telegraphed for multiple years, you all are tired of hearing this from me, we telegraphed what were about. We laid ourselves out there. We even, whether we did it deliberately or not, we even put out within a month, the $100 million of taxes that we were going to raise a year before the election and we still won by two touchdowns. So that’s a fact. … I’m not announcing a shutdown today, so I’m giving you a 5,000 mile check up report on where we are. We still have nine days to go, and by the way this is the longest day of the year, perhaps figuratively and literally. Thirdly, regardless of what party I’m in, this notion of you’ve got to pay a price, it rolls off my back. I was not sent here to keep doing business as usual. That’s not who I am. That’s not why I got elected. I got elected to come here and crack the back of this idiocy of kicking the can, phantom numbers, band aids, toothpicks, enough. The 9 million residents of the state want adult, responsible leadership that makes a historic reinvestment in the middle class and in the dreams of those, as I was growing up, who aspire to get into the middle class.

Senior Correspondent David Cruz and Chief Political Correspondent Michael Aron discuss what Murphy had to say in his news conference.