What Trump’s national emergency and new legislation for coronavirus will mean for N.J.
WASHINGTON— Two new pools of federal money will flow to New Jersey to help the state cope with the coronavirus.
President Donald Trump’s national emergency will free up $50 billion in federal funds for New Jersey and other states to tap to help cover their costs of responding to the virus. The president called it “a large amount of money for states and territories and localities in our shared fight against this disease.”
And bipartisan legislation that passed the House early Saturday could mean $810 million in new Medicaid funding for the state, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorit…
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