Brian Lair on WNYC.

By the way, one quick correction from what I said going out the door of the last segment.

I said Election Day is on November 9th.

It's actually on November 6th, just saying.

Now, as some of you know, WNYC and Gothamist Nancy Solomon hosts an ask Governor Murphy call-in

once a month, and she usually joins us on this show the morning after with some excerpts

from an analysis of things the governor said.

So we're going to talk to Nancy now.

Some of the context right now is that Murphy and legislative leaders have until the end of the fiscal year,

which is June 30th to agree on a budget deal.

There's also a lot of politics right now.

Some of it is on campus with protests on New Jersey

campuses like everywhere. Another thing, and another thing the station is doing, is that there is a

U.S. Senate primary debate Monday night. Michael Hill is going to be moderating that. So this is those

people who want to replace Robert Menendez,

and the Menendez trial is also coming up. So enough to talk about with Nancy Solomon today.

Hey, Nancy. Good morning, Brian.

So there is a lot going on. Yeah. Well, where do you want to start? What do you think the headline was last night from Ask Governor Murphy?

I think probably the fact that he said quite confidently that he thought he could get both his new tax on corporations to fund New Jersey Transit into the budget for next year agreed upon

with the legislature and that that was not going to imperil a very major property tax cut

for seniors that's been in the works for a couple of years and would take effect in 2026.

There's been criticism that the state can't do both and that the legislature was going to push back on the transit tax because of that.

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