This is Christie’s second executive order this summer dealing with the Transportation Trust Fund, which is set to run out of money at the end of this month.
Given transportation funding uncertainly, the pension amendment is a "dangerous, wrong approach," says the Senate president. NJEA's leader calls him dishonest.
Top New Jersey officials struck decidedly different tones Tuesday when assessing the prospects for resolving a transportation funding impasse now into its second month.
Senators are still trying to line up votes for the Transportation Trust Fund's gas tax hike. Without them, a deadline for a pension funding amendment may pass.
A Senate committee voted Friday to advance a Transportation Trust Fund plan that’s at odds with Gov. Chris Christie, putting the issue right back where it was five weeks ago.
Gov. Chris Christie rejects the Democrats' latest Transportation Trust Fund proposal, deeming the tax cuts as insufficient to green-light a gas-tax hike.