Internal e-mails recently sent to all cabinet officials have revealed Governor Murphy’s administration is seeking five percent cuts across all government agencies due to a mounting budget deficit. Republican Gubernatorial Candidate and State Senator Jon Bramnick released the following statement:

“Every year since Governor Murphy took office I have warned that the out-of-control spending approved by the Democrat monopoly in Trenton was irresponsible and unsustainable. The internal e-mails circulating the administration, calling for five percent cuts in every department, proves just that.

Under Governor Murphy, New Jersey’s budget has grown by $22 billion. That is more than $2,300 in new government spending for every resident in the state in just 7 years. New Jersey taxpayers cannot afford that kind of fiscal mismanagement. Progressive groups will claim it is a taxation problem but the residents of New Jersey, who face one of the highest tax burdens in the nation, know it is a spending problem.

The only way we will solve the fiscal crisis in New Jersey is by shrinking the size of state government and eliminating bureaucracy. As Governor I will immediately create a Government Efficiency Panel consisting of private citizens and business owners to comb through the bloated New Jersey government to find departments, programs and waste to eliminate. We don’t need more audits or studies from professional consulting firms and insiders recycling the same tired ideas. We need the job creators and taxpayers who suffer under the current bloated government structure to lead the way.

I will also impose a 2% spending cap on the state budget to stop out of control budget growth while I am Governor and work to pass a Constitutional amendment to enshrine the cap and fiscal responsibility into our state constitution to prevent irresponsible budget growth in future administrations.

New Jersey cannot afford another four years of Democrat control in Trenton and I will bring fiscal control to the State House to make New Jersey more affordable.”