Facing budget gap, Gov. Murphy seeks reduced spending and a limit on new hiring • New Jersey Monitor

Facing budget gap, Gov. Murphy seeks reduced spending and a limit on new hiring • New Jersey Monitor

The administration has requested departments identify cuts to reduce expenses by 5% as New Jersey faces a growing structural budget deficit.

New Jersey Republican Says “I told You So” as Governor Murphy Orders Department-wide Budget Cuts and Hiring Freeze

New Jersey state Senator Declan O’Scanlon is having an “I told you so” moment after Governor Murphy’s office directed state departments to reduce spending by 5% for the Fiscal Year 2026 budget in anticipation of a revenue shortfall for the state. “Wait, you mean Republicans were right in our dire budgetary predictions EVERY YEAR of […]

Governor orders departments to freeze hiring, salary increases – and reduce budgets by 5%

In the latest acknowledgement that the long anticipated ‘fiscal cliff’ is coming, the Murphy administration, in an email sent last week, notified the heads of all the cabinet departments that the state will pause approvals for discretionary salary increases and that each department should limit new hire requests to those that are “mission critical” to the functioning of the department, ROI-NJ has exclusively learned. ROI-NJ also has learned the …