Governor Phil Murphy

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

We will also: ☑️Secure tuition-assistance programs for our college students ☑️Keep direct state aid to our municipalities whole ☑️Protect the core services that many New Jersey families rely upon – including health care — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

So, this budget comes with a promise to these families and students: ☑️At least $250 million to support our schools in opening more fully for these students ☑️Subsidies to child-care centers so that more of them can reopen ☑️Expanded child care subsidies — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

For a majority of our students, remote learning will be part of their day – whether in-part or in-full. With this will come new burdens on parents who don’t have the ability, or privilege, to provide adequate supervision during times of remote study. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

With these resources available to us, we can preserve our record-setting investments in school aid, continue to expand pre-K, ensure districts have the resources needed to ensure a safe school reopening, and protect property taxpayers. #NJbudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

A millionaires tax will ensure fairness and justice in taxation and in society. To all the millionaires in our state: We ask you to sacrifice pennies on the dollar to ensure that every New Jerseyan has the same opportunity to succeed as you did. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

In renewing my call for a millionaires tax, let’s be honest about who this pandemic has hit the hardest – our middle-class and low-income working families – and this tax would not impact them at all. But, through it, we can ensure that our recovery will lift them. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

That means that the wealthiest among us – millionaires and large corporations – need to pay their fair share in taxes, whether it be on income or in buying a yacht. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

Building a stronger New Jersey requires us to ask those who, in some cases, continued to prosper as this pandemic raged around us – and most certainly were hurt less – to do more so we can strength the middle-class families who are the backbone of our state. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

I count myself among the majority of New Jerseyans who understand that we all must be in this together, and that everyone needs to do their fair share. But, we also know that many in our state have been hurt more than others. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

This #NJBudget: ☑️Generates real and substantial savings through collectively bargained furloughs and health benefit reforms ☑️Maintains our commitment to our workforce by making the full pension payment we committed to in February — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

Some spending cuts are necessary in the face of this crisis, which is why I asked every department to dig deep to find cuts and efficiencies. Yet, I also directed that they preserve the core and essential services that millions of our residents rely upon every single day. — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

That is the wrong way, the dishonest and failed way, and is just more of what made us so vulnerable to the ill winds of the pandemic. You don’t grow and strengthen the middle class by pulling the rug out from under it – you can’t cut and slash your way to growth and opportunity. — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

Some have looked only to draconian cuts – cuts that would disproportionately fall upon our working and middle-class families, our kids, and our communities of color while, at the same time, leading to increased property taxes. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

And, even during this pandemic, we have kept getting big things done: ☑️The Portal Bridge is finally getting replaced ☑️Strengthened our commitment to a green energy future, creating thousands of good-paying jobs ☑️Continued to make health care more affordable — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

☑️Protected women’s reproductive rights ☑️Strengthened gun safety ☑️Created tens of thousands of new jobs ☑️Restored fiscal responsibility ☑️Began to turn NJ TRANSIT around — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

Over the previous two years, working with our legislative colleagues, we: ☑️Increased funding for our public schools and pre-K ☑️Increased the minimum wage ☑️Guaranteed paid sick days ☑️Expanded paid family leave ☑️Pulled the cost of college back within reach for more families — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

Before this public health crisis, we made a clear and unmistakable start on building a stronger and fairer New Jersey that reaches deep into every corner of our state to lift up those who had been overlooked for far too long. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

We need to work on a more transparent, professional, and accountable culture in law enforcement. With the leadership of @NewJerseyOAG and @NJSP Superintendent Colonel Callahan, we are doing just that. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

In the wake of the senseless murder of George Floyd, thousands of New Jerseyans have peacefully taken to our streets to call for us to recognize three simple yet overwhelmingly meaningful and overdue words: "Black Lives Matter." I not only applaud them – I join them. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

Many Pride Month celebrations have also been postponed or canceled, but we have not forgotten the many contributions of our LGBTQ+ brothers and sisters, or the need to ensure they never lack for dignity. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

#COVID19 has also come during our ongoing opioid epidemic. We have not forgotten that effort as we have undertaken fighting this virus. This pandemic has also taken a toll on our mental health and on those living with disabilities. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

Another unavoidable truth that this pandemic brought to light is the deep inequality and profound unfairness of our system and our society. Our communities of color, and communities where economic opportunity has been in short supply, have borne an outsized burden. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

We can’t do this all alone. We still need the federal government – especially the President and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell – to join us as FULL partners. States need direct federal assistance. This is an unavoidable truth. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

☑️More than $100 million directly into our Main Street small businesses through grants and loans and into capital investment guarantees for nascent start-ups. Small businesses are the heart of our state’s economy, and we are committed to seeing them through this crisis — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

☑️$150 million to colleges and universities to defray the costs they have incurred in responding to this pandemic and to ensure that high-quality learning isn’t sacrificed ☑️$50 million to our public and non-public schools to help bridge the digital divide — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

While we have been working hard to protect our state under tremendous fiscal strain, we have also been prudently investing federal funding to help our residents and businesses: ☑️$125 million to help renters and landlords ☑️$155 million investment in long-term care facilities — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

I propose a new budget – ensuring our values and our priorities remain intact. We can’t build the same NJ we had before #COVID19. We can’t run the same plays of the past, which only provided short-term political cover while not providing any long-term systemic reform. #NJBudget https://t.co/dxvcaOEr4o — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

I remain just as optimistic for our future and just as committed to seeing through our vision of creating a stronger and fairer New Jersey as I have ever been. We WILL come out of this pandemic stronger than we were when it started. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

We must have the unavoidable conversation about what it means to not only see our state through this emergency, but what we will look like when we emerge from it. We are in a moment unlike any other. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

Besides setting off an unprecedented public health crisis, #COVID19 unleashed an economic crisis that can only be rivaled by two other times in our state’s entire 244-year history – the Great Depression and the Civil War. #NJBudget — PolitiTweet.org