Republican senator weighs the tax implications
Gov. Phil Murphy’s budget speech was also an election-year speech, since all 120 seats in the Legislature are on the ballot. A number of items in the governor’s speech played to Democrats’ interests.
Republicans though, are criticizing a budget plan that’s 5% larger than last year’s record-high state budget. Among the Republicans who made the case against the Murphy spending proposals were Sen. Declan O’Scanlon (R-Monmouth).
Senior Correspondent David Cruz is the moderator of Chat Box and Reporters Roundtable. He's been a member of the NJ Spotlight News team since 2011 and has been covering New Jersey's biggest stories for almost 30 years. He's been a reporter and moderator of public affairs programs on television, radio and digital platforms for WBGO and WNYC radio and is the former editor in chief of the Hudson Reporter Newspaper group.
