Matt Platkin

New Jersey has not been immune to those risks and those threats.

We have gone to court dozens of times and been successful in

dozens of times in restoring billions and billions of dollars of federal funding that had been unlawfully held.

Funding for things like, as we're dealing with right now, for 850,000 New Jerseyans who rely on SNAP for their food, for themselves, for their kids, for their seniors.

Things like funding for education.

funding for kids with special needs, health care, funding for housing for our seniors.

All of these have been unlawfully cut or threatened to be cut by this administration.

So my response is very simple.

If this administration violates the law and hurts the people in our state, I've been very clear we will go to court to protect them.

The president made some comments.

It is our understanding that the project has not been affected, but we are going to continue to monitor very closely.

Just like I was just saying, any unlawful threat to or cut to funding that affects the state of New Jersey is something we take very seriously.

And we've been very clear that we're prepared to stand up for our residents should we need to do so.