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Murphy’s Use of COVID Funds for Illegal Immigrants Questioned by GOP

At issue is allocations to the Excluded New Jerseyans Fund

R0bert Amoroso by R0bert Amoroso
July 25, 2022
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Gov. Phil Murphy is apparently making good on his promise to appropriated $500 checks to eligible illegal immigrants currently residing within the Garden State.

GOP lawmakers have charged that Murphy, along with key party allies on the State Senate and Assembly budget committees, devised a plan to divert federal COVID funds intended for New Jersey taxpayers in support of approximately 100,000 illegal immigrants.

Republicans have raised questions about the program as under federal law, illegal immigrants who reside within the United States were not entitled to federal COVID stimulus checks or unemployment benefits in 2020 and again in 2021.

Murphy diverts COVID funds earmarked for New Jersey taxpayers

Murphy nevertheless bypassed the law and designed a program that would allow him to siphon off federal COVID funds, originally earmarked for New Jersey taxpayers.

By simply changing a few words within the state budget, Murphy was able to access and allocate $300 million from the state’s share of federal COVID recovery funds without seeking legislative approval by the Joint Budget Oversight Committee (JBOC).

North-JerseyNews.comHowever, according to the state budget Murphy cannot allocate funds larger than $20 million without approval from the JBOC. The only exception is the one-time $60 million pledge he made in March to illegal immigrants, promising them the $500 windfall.

Illegal immigrants get $60 million pledge from Murphy

“This is a positive development and highlights that the state has the power to do right by its residents,” said Laura Bustamante, policy and campaigns manager at the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice. “But much more must be done to ensure the community who does not have Individual Taxpayer Identification Number or ITIN receive the recovery resources they deserve.”

Furthermore, GOP lawmakers alleged the governor created several slush funds totaling more than $4 billion in the FY 2023 State Budget. The monies will apparently be used to fund whatever political programs and policies the governor considers important outside of the traditional budget process without legislative oversight or public scrutiny.

However, Republican lawmakers from the 10th Legislative District quickly zeroed in on the $300 million that Murphy personally controls along with the secretive slush funds.

Secret $4 billion slush funds

“The Democrats who control the Legislature know that Gov. Murphy’s program giving big cash payments to illegal immigrants is so unpopular with most New Jerseyans that they were afraid to fund it directly in the state budget,” said State Sen. Jim Holzapfel (R-10). “Instead, they created a slush fund that Gov. Murphy controls that appears to have been designed specifically to continue making these ridiculous payments.”

Murphy was able to sidestep scrutiny by the Joint Budget Oversight Committee (JBOC), making multiple money transfers of federal COVID funds, by staying under the $10 million threshold imposed by the JBOC.

The money transfers were made in April to the Excluded New Jerseyans Fund, which made available $2,000 to $4,000 payments to qualifying households of illegal immigrants.

The program provides a one-time, direct cash payment to eligible households who are excluded from receiving federal stimulus checks including COVID related unemployment benefits. The recipients of the program include former inmates and illegal immigrants along with individuals otherwise ineligible.

Murphy sidesteps JBOC S scrutiny  

Republican Senator Michael Testa also weighed in on Murphy’s $60 million dollar give-away to illegal aliens, accusing the governor of cutting school aid along with raising property taxes, while also giving illegal aliens free healthcare.

“Families in nearly 200 school districts across New Jersey will pay higher property taxes this year because Governor Murphy chose to slash their school aid in his new state budget,” said Testa (R-1), a member of the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee. “Instead of funding our schools and supporting New Jersey families, the governor chose to hand out $500 checks and free health care to illegal immigrants. For anyone wondering why New Jersey is so unaffordable, this expensive progressive nonsense from Democrats like Governor Murphy is exactly why.”

The governor earlier this year also funded a program that doled out additional checks to illegal immigrants, in direct violation of senate rules requiring legislative approval.

Effect on Budget

Testa acknowledged that the two programs directly benefiting illegal immigrants would have easily reversed the school aid cuts, in that the administration ended the state fiscal year in June with a record surplus driven by nearly $9 billion in tax over-collections revenues.

“It’s disturbing that Governor Murphy chose to cut aid to more than half of our local school districts even as the state was setting records in tax collections and his administration was building huge surpluses,” Testa said.

“For the governor to cut funding to so many schools while funneling money to expensive programs for illegal immigrants and doling out billions in political pork is a real slap in the face to many of our hard-working South Jersey communities that will be hit with higher property tax bills,” added the State Senator.

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Comments 13

  1. countrypaul says:
    2 weeks ago

    The governor is doing a humanitarian thing; good for him. Covid doesn’t know nationality, legality, age or anything; it’s an equal opportunity infection.

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  2. tom j largey says:
    2 weeks ago

    Rat Murphy – taking from hardworking taxpayers to give to deadbeats again and again; that rat should be recalled.

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  3. Regina M Vitti says:
    2 weeks ago

    Governor Murphy absolutely did the right thing helping our New Jersey immigrants during covid. You wouldn’t be able to go out to dinner anywhere in NJ without immigrants today. I sustained and fed my staff during covid and most of us in the restaurant industry barely could afford to. It was the right thing to do. Governor Murphy does the right thing.

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  4. rob kwiatk says:
    2 weeks ago

    WELL; As is stated in this article & is Questioned by the GOP, They have a point.. However, in this pandemic this was & is the Rite thing to do!! And that is to take care of everyone; No matter who or’n what they be; Lest you have them Starve!! This is already Water under the Bridge, so lets Move-0n in the Spirit of Humanity..//

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  5. bonnie says:
    2 weeks ago

    sure let the vets and homeless fend for themselves- actual citizens versus illegalsl!! If you voted for this moron thanks for nothign!

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  6. bonnie says:
    2 weeks ago

    Murphy nevertheless bypassed the law and designed a program that would allow him to siphon off federal COVID funds, originally earmarked for New Jersey taxpayers.

    By simply changing a few words within the state budget, Murphy was able to access and allocate $300 million from the state’s share of federal COVID recovery funds without seeking legislative approval by the Joint Budget Oversight Committee (JBOC). AND YOU VOTED FOR HIM!!!!!!

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  7. makunik52 says:
    2 weeks ago

    Why doesn’t the GOP question obscene corporate profits to CEO’s and their off-shore tax evasions under the laws which have turned citizens into consumers, and allowed irresponsible products and waste that we in the end pay for. Corporate Crimes and real estate speculation schemes continue to degrade and demise the alleged democracy, and they the GOP remain silent. Government rather than a Means Proper, has become in essence a corporation supreme.Our 2-Party system has divided US; rather than allowing elements of dynamic human possibilities to have dialogue we limit ourselves to arguments and taking sides. All is scene for or against; rather than a true Method of enquiring into the bottom of things, and impartially judging according to the weight of proper merit. Media hype has replaced sound mental and spiritual wisdom.
    Without good government we are doomed. No economic interest, under any circumstances, can ever be above the reverence for life. A huge part of the problem is the Jeffersonian notion that” the government that governs best is the one that governs least”. While it is true as regards individual liberties, it is absolutely dangerous to think that way as regards economy.

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  8. Nicholas Homyak says:
    2 weeks ago

    Why doesn’t the GOP look into or expose the corporate crime of obscene CEO profits, corporate welfare or tax evasions, that place these entities, and corporate barons above and beyond any economy. As they inflict impacts upon community and environment with their economy to nowhere. Instead of government being the Means Proper it has become a corporate takeover of the democracy. GOP is Gangster Capitalism.

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  9. David says:
    2 weeks ago

    Are you hiring immigrants, or illegal immigrants, I believe we all are here from legal immigration, I hope they are paying and you also into social security, disability, unemployment, ect. If not that is the problem. Fyi

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