GOP to Democrats: Reclaim Cash, Skip Pork to Shrink NJ Budget Gap

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Weeks before lawmakers must approve an annual state budget, Republicans are pitching cost-saving proposals and urging majority Democrats to take a look.

Among the GOP-backed ideas is a call to repurpose unspent balances from prior-year appropriations, which they estimate could free up hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.