Senator Steve Oroho, a member of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement regarding Governor Christie’s budget speech today:
“Governor Christie was left with an unprecedented budget deficit when he took office 23 days ago. The size of the budget hole that needed to be closed by the end of this fiscal year is more than $2 billion. Sadly, the governor only had $6 billion in unexpended funds to work with to close this extraordinary gap.
“The Governor laid out a plan that doesn’t ignore the problem by simply kicking the can down the road as was done so often in the previous administration.
“We all recognize the fiscal crisis the State is in and Governor Christie acknowledged that the solutions will involve pain as evidenced by his actions today. But it sets the right tone and is a start towards setting New Jersey on a path towards fiscal sanity and the prosperity that will ultimately follow.”
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