Who Wields the Power as Budget Comes Together in Trenton?

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Lawmakers now drafting the legislation that will become state government’s next annual budget are flexing powers of the purse solely held by New Jersey’s Legislature.

An appropriations process dictated by the state constitution grants members of the Legislature, and not the governor, the authority to write spending bills put up for votes each year in the Assembly and Senate.