Brian Lair on WNYC and WNYC's Nancy Solomon is back with us.

She usually comes on after her monthly Ask Governor Murphy call in.

It was Wednesday night this week.

Some of the topics, the new mansion tax in New Jersey, on homes worth $2 million

and up, has apparently caused disagreements between housing advocates and the governor.

There's also hikes on electricity bills, as you no doubt noticed.

If you live in Jersey, adding financial pressures to New Jersey residents and questions about

what, if anything, the state should do about it. Also more on ice raids. And what happened in the

budget? The state budget just got passed for the new fiscal year relating to open. on ice raids and what happened in the budget.

The state budget just got passed for the new fiscal year relating to opioid settlement

funds.

So a whole lot came up on one little hour of the Ask Governor Murphy on Wednesday night.

We'll tick through some of that and take some of your calls on some of those topics.

Hi, Nancy.

Hi, Brian.

Can we start with the

mansion tax? This is being debated in New York, too. What got passed in New Jersey, and who

likes it, and who doesn't? Yeah, so it's a fee on any house that is sold for more. It already existed for houses sold for more than a million

and now it graduates up after two million.

So there's an extra fee or an extra percentage is taken.

And I think this is gonna add $300 million to the budget. I don't have that in front of me, but if I'm remembering right, that's what it's going to add. You alluded to some folks are not happy about this. It's not what you would expect. It's not that people are opposed to the higher tax.

It's housing advocates who are upset that the money isn't being dedicated to the Affordable

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