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Well, we have a special guest on this morning.

He is a state senator from the right now, blue state of New Jersey.

Please welcome State Senator.

Mike Test, a good morning to, Senator.

Good morning.

How are you?

I'm doing great. Thanks. How you after the the governor signed into law

a budget in the state of new jersey that's more bloated than a puffy fish well look i don't feel

stronger and fair i keep on hearing for the past eight years and for the six years that i've been

in the legislature that that New Jersey is

somehow stronger and fairer each year. I don't feel stronger. I don't feel more fair. I feel

weaker and poorer, just like so many of the other nine and a half million New Jerseyans, many

of which I represent in the first legislative district and others that I hear from via

email regular mail which is surprising we still do have do have regular mail system we get

letters from a lot of constituents from around the state and social media people do not feel

stronger and fairer and we're at now almost a $59 billion loaded budget. It's crazy that it could

ever have gotten that high. I mean, it's, it was like $20 billion less a few years ago. I remember

when we covered it when I was a TV news anchor. I remember it was like in the 30-something billion

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