New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy's first year in office was shaped by sustained conflict with fellow Democrat, State Senate President Steve Sweeney. But in his 2020 budget speech on Tuesday, the governor seemed to signal a new willingness to find middle ground between his ambitious progressive agenda and Sweeney's demands for spending cuts.
That doesn't mean there aren't still points of contention.
A battle over a proposed millionaire's tax nearly shut down the government last year. And as WNYC's Karen Rouse explains to David Furst, the millionaire's tax could be the big sticking point once again.