“The Senate President can do the right thing by moving the entire gun safety package to second reading. I urge him to do so. The whole package by the way, not just a few cherry-picked bills,” Murphy said Wednesday at a press conference in Westfield – a site chosen following the arrest last week of a Delaware man with a .45-caliber firearm and 130 rounds of hollow-point ammunition in front of an elementary school in the city.

Gov. Phil Murphy alluded to the notion of nixing key priorities of the 2020 spending plan coming his way from state lawmakers if it does not include a millionaire’s tax, as well as fees on firearms, ammunition, opioid manufacturers and certain businesses with employees enrolled in Medicaid.

The South Jersey political powerbroker at the center of the Murphy administration’s scrutiny and criticism into the state’s corporate tax breaks is asking lawmakers for the chance to testify on those incentives.

The Appropriations Committee voted 9-1, with one abstention, to advance the measure following nearly two weeks of closed door meetings between legislative leadership and Gov. Phil Murphy’s office.

“We’re not just dealing with a broken system, we’re dealing with a rigged system,” Murphy told reporters at a news conference in Trenton.

The expansion would let applicants get a refund from the state on up to 25 percent of their expenses, up from 10 percent under the existing program.

The measure seeks to mitigate the potentially deleterious effect to youth hiring following the passage of a $15 minimum wage law in the state.

Following the decision from a Superior Court judge on Monday against efforts to block the release of the task force's findings, the 75-page dispatch paints the Economic Development Authority as an agency lacking oversight and adequate procedures in place to vet applicants for New Jersey's corporate tax break programs.

Murphy and lawmakers have until July 1 to agree on a budget for the 2020 fiscal year, otherwise, the governor would have to order a government shutdown.

Lawmakers began moving ahead with nine of the New Jersey Economic & Fiscal Policy Workgroup's bills aimed at promoting shared service agreements and cutting the costs of local government.

NFI, which applied for the Grow New Jersey tax incentive program in 2016 and ultimately moved into a Camden office tower, certified in its application that it was not found guilty of any criminal violations nor was it involved in any legal proceedings, both assertions a letter from the Teamsters argues were false.

Several organizations came out in support of Gov. Phil Murphy’s proposal for a millionaire’s tax at a rally in Trenton, while criticizing a series of proposed cuts to public worker pensions and health care plans backed by the state’s top lawmakers.