Murphy beats the heck out of Trump

In Trenton today, everybody was getting along just fine.

Gov. Phil Murphy, Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin came together at a joint press conference to take on a common foe: President Donald Trump.

“We are together in this fight,” Murphy said. “Let there be no doubt”

The Big Three were on the same page on New Jersey’s plan to fight proposed changes to Internal Revenue Service rules that would top New Jerseyans from using a loophole the state came up with earlier this year to avoid the elimination of the $10,000 cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions.

“Our law was carefully drafted to fit within the rules the IRS already had on the books,” said Murphy. “This was hardly anything revolutionary. We’re hardly being George Washington here.”

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