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Ryan Laird on WNYC, Nancy Solomon joins us now with excerpts from her Ask

Governor Murphy call in last night and to take some of your questions and comments.

She does that call in once a month with the governor and usually comes on with us the next

morning.

One of the big topics last night, federal budget cuts and what they

could mean for New Jersey, especially from Medicaid. Call her from Tom's River shared her fears

about how cuts could threaten care for her disabled sister, and Murphy put the blame on Washington

saying a few key congressional votes could make all the difference. We'll talk about that. Also on the agenda,

New Jersey's primary ballot redesign. Murphy signed a bill meant to change the way ballots are

structured to make it more fair to all the candidates, but some advocates are saying it doesn't go

far enough. School funding cuts came up too, along with housing affordability. When does that not come

up? And the I-80 sinkhole that's still causing major headaches, did your car fall in? Hey, Nancy,

happy Thursday. Hi, Brian. And before we get to new business, a little bit of old business, being the ethical journalist that you are,

I know you wanted to come on and correct something that you said inaccurately when you were on after Ask Governor Murphy last month.

What's that?

Thank you.

I said that federal funding for New Jersey transit was $300,000 a month. I was wrong. It's $300 million a month from the federal government for New Jersey Transit. Yeah, I missed a few zeros there.

Couldn't they run a whole NJ transit system on $300 million a month?

And yet, we know how good and not good it is.

I can't answer that one.

I don't know.

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