The process will occur in two-week phases, each sector being allowed to reopen 14 days apart. “We want to give ourselves a chance to see if anything spikes,” the mayor explained.

The house took home $82.6 million last month, compared to $265.4 million for the same period in 2019.

“What would usually be a bellwether report for how we would finish the fiscal year would now be delayed,” the governor said, adding he expects “worse news" for numbers set to be released in May that will reflect the entire month of April.

Language from the Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act, passed in the House in September and currently in limbo in the U.S. Senate, was incorporated into the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act, or the HEROES Act.

“Nothing is off the table, because it can’t be off the table because we’re in unprecedented times,” Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-3rd District, said in an hour-long editorial board meeting with NJBIZ.

The governor said he’ll have “hard dates” this week on when more limitations will be lifted.

“I understand the governor wanting to open up the state at once, but here’s the problem: Everything’s opening up around us, so how do you stop somebody from going to Connecticut, or to Rhode Island?” the Senate president said during an hour-long interview with NJBIZ.

The Murphy administration plans to increase the state’s daily COVID-19 diagnostic capacity by more than double, to 20,000, by the end of May.

In the months leading up to the global pandemic, the focus was on whether the programs should have an overall cap for annual awards, something pushed by the governor but staunchly opposed by legislative leadership.

Many New Jerseyans are concerned about a variety of consequences that come with COVID-19 and ongoing restrictions, according to the poll.

Last week, jobless claims in the state topped 1 million, according to the New Jersey Department of Labor, and roughly 300,000 jobless claims have yet to be paid.

"Assuming the cases keep going in the right direction ... we can give a little bit more guidance, some other things that we're looking at,” the governor said May 11. “But don't hold us to a day on that."