NJ Assembly GOP

10/22/2026

New Jersey has a voter registration problem. Democrats’ solution? Make it harder to secure the polls.

Last night we shared the facts: 6,600 ineligible individuals registered to vote through the MVC. Nearly 400 voted. Eight people are now facing federal criminal charges, including a Bridgewater woman who pleaded guilty this week to illegally voting in the 2024 presidential election.

Today, the Democrat-controlled Assembly Oversight Committee added A5641 to its agenda for it's hearing at 10 a.m.

The bill, called the “Election Integrity Voter Protection Act,” would prohibit active-duty military, National Guard members, and federal law enforcement from coming within 100 feet of a polling place or ballot drop box. It would ban them from serving as poll challengers. It would prohibit them from wearing uniforms or openly carrying fi****ms at polling places.

Let’s be clear about what this is.

Assembly Republicans have a seven-bill package to stop ineligible registrations, clean the voter rolls, require photo ID, and investigate how 6,600 people who shouldn’t have been registered got registered anyway.

Democrats responded by scheduling a bill to keep law enforcement away from the polls.

Governor Mikie Sherrill set the tone back in July when she said Trump “wants you to come through a gauntlet of ICE officers to vote.”

But New Jersey doesn’t have a problem with too much law enforcement at polling places. It has a problem with ineligible voters on the rolls, confirmed by the state’s own records and federal prosecutors.

Assembly Republicans will be watching today’s hearing closely.

10/21/2026

These aren’t hypothetical cases. These are federal criminal charges. And New Jersey needs to catch up.

A 55-year-old Jamaican green card holder pleaded guilty Monday to illegally voting in Somerset County on Nov. 5, 2024 in the same election that decided the presidency.

She’s not alone. Seven others in New Jersey are facing charges:

🚨 Two Pakistani nationals voted in Bergen County in 2020.
🚨 A French national voted in Toms River in 2022.
🚨 Three green card holders — from Liberia, Israel, and India — voted in federal elections between 2020 and 2024.
🚨 An Ecuadorian woman on a tourist visa voted in Union County’s 2024 presidential primary.

Federal prosecutors brought these cases. New Jersey’s own records tell the rest of the story: 6,600 noncitizens registered to vote through the MVC. Nearly 400 voted. Some even indicated they weren’t citizens — and were registered anyway.

This happened because the system has no guardrails. And until we fix the system, it will keep happening.

Assembly Republicans have a plan to stop it.

1. Stop illegal registrations before they happen.
Require proof of citizenship at the MVC. End automatic voter registration. Make licenses issued to noncitizens visually distinct so there’s no confusion at the polls.

2. Clean up the voter rolls.
Cross-check voter registrations with jury duty records. When someone tells a court they’re not a citizen to get out of jury duty, that information should automatically trigger a review of their voter registration. Government agencies need to stop operating in silos and start sharing data.

3. Make voting more secure.
Require photo ID at the polls. Set a firm 8 p.m. Election Day deadline for mail-in ballots. Require video surveillance of ballot drop boxes and proper oversight of mail-in ballot counting.

4. Enforce the law.
Create a dedicated voter fraud task force within the Attorney General’s Office with a clear mandate to investigate credible cases and prosecute violations.

5. Find out exactly what went wrong.
Create a special Assembly investigative committee — six Republicans, six Democrats, full subpoena power. Bring officials in. Get the records. Find out who knew about these failures and why nothing was done to correct them.

Protecting the integrity of elections should not be a partisan issue. It is an American one.

New Jersey’s system failed. The evidence is in the charges, in the guilty plea, and in the state’s own records. The question now is whether Trenton has the will to fix it.

Assembly Republicans do.

10/21/2026

181 days ago, Governor Mikie Sherrill launched her “first-of-its-kind” Budget Report Card website with great fanfare.

She promised New Jerseyans a new era of transparency. A real accounting of where their money goes. An end to backroom deals and last-minute giveaways.

We're still waiting.

The site launched April 23 with essentially the same “budget in brief” summary Treasury already publishes every year. A dozen high-level spending categories. No details on specific programs. No department-level breakdowns. No measurable outcomes.

Which was supposed to be the whole point of calling it a “report card.”

Her office called it “first-of-its-kind.” When a reporter challenged that claim, a spokesperson insisted there was no “precedent for a centralized, interactive, informational, transparent state budget site.”

Except Missouri built one in 2018. Oklahoma publishes agency spending down to individual line items. Connecticut tracks actual spending against its budget every month. Ohio lets taxpayers see payments to individual vendors.

Sherrill's version doesn't come close.

The website was updated twice - once in May and again in June - and still called itself a "pilot version" months after launch. We found no evidence that the promised outcome data was ever added.

181 days later, where's the report card?

And the need for transparency has only grown.

💸Sherrill promised no new taxes. Her budget raised them $765 million.
💰She promised to keep a lid on new spending. Spending increased $1.9 billion.
🎄She promised to end Christmas tree giveaways. The budget included $611 million in pork.
🏠She promised Stay NJ would deliver property tax relief. Instead, 45,000 seniors lost benefits, and another 68,000 residents lost ANCHOR relief.

New Jersey ended up with the largest budget in state history, record spending and a structural deficit that grew from $1.5 billion to $3 billion.

And when Democrats needed money to cover their spending, they cut $267 million from the state's own Medicaid funding — then blamed Washington. Their own commissioner and treasurer confirmed the facts in budget hearings.

Meanwhile, the Sherrill administration points to a $6 billion surplus while facing a $3 billion structural deficit. Those reserves don't erase the gap between what the state collects and what it spends year after year.

That's precisely why New Jerseyans need a real budget report card.

Not a dozen spending categories. Not recycled budget summaries. And not a pilot website that has gone six months without delivering the promised accountability.

Taxpayers deserve to know where their money goes, which programs receive it, who benefits and what results they're getting.

Six months ago, the governor promised to show them.

We're still waiting. And we're still watching.

10/14/2026

Today, four Assembly Republicans showed up to the NJ Department of Community Affairs Local Finance Board to say what needed to be said about Newark’s proposed $498 million, 30-year school lease — a building the district will never own, for 667 kids, approved while school programs are being cut all across New Jersey.

They laid out the numbers. They asked the hard questions. And the board approved it anyway — 4-2.

Voting YES:
Dominick “Nick” DiRocco, Robert Jackson, Ryan Cooper and Idida Rodriguez.

Voting NO:
Chairman Michael Rogers and William Close.

The board had the facts. They voted yes anyway.

🎥 Here’s what our members had to say 👇

10/13/2026

Governor Mikie Sherrill had some strong words for former Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop.

She called him “a very bad mayor” who put the city “in a lot of debt.”

She was right.

Then she signed a $110 million bailout for Jersey City anyway — tucked inside a $358 million spending bill introduced on the last Sunday in June, passed in three days, with no real public hearings.

Taxpayers across the state got the bill. They never voted for it.

And the $110 million didn’t fix anything. Jersey City’s structural deficit is still there. The city still doesn’t have a complete inventory of its own land, vehicles and equipment. That's a problem auditors have flagged since 2014. The inventory won’t even be done until September 2027.

Assemblywoman Aura Dunn breaks it all down in this week’s What They’re Not Telling You. 👇

Governor Sherrill called former Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop “a ve...

10/09/2026

Assembly GOP Leader John DiMaio speaks at the New Jersey March for Life Rally in Trenton on Oct. 8, 2026.

10/09/2026

You can't coffee-klatch your way out of the highest corporate tax rate in the country.

Yesterday, the Sherrill administration unveiled its big plan to stop New Jersey’s corporate exodus.

Blame Murphy. Schedule coffee with CEOs. Hope for the best.

At a business summit, a top Sherrill official made a stunning admission: Nobody in state government had been specifically responsible for keeping businesses from leaving.

Seriously. Nobody.

So what's the new strategy? More meetings. More conversations. More relationship-building.

Even the CEO of Choose New Jersey acknowledged the limits:

“There’s nothing I’m going to do tomorrow that’s probably going to change some of the decisions that have been in the works for five years.”

Meanwhile, the exits keep piling up.

Samsung to Texas. Burlington Stores to Philadelphia. Mars Wrigley out of Newark. ExxonMobil, a company literally once named after New Jersey, gone to Texas.

Here's something worth discussing over coffee:

New Jersey has the highest top corporate tax rate in America.

Companies don't make billion-dollar business decisions based on how often the governor calls to check in. They look at the numbers. And New Jersey's numbers aren't competitive.

Assembly Republicans are pushing to make New Jersey more affordable and competitive. The Sherrill administration is scheduling another round of “deeper conversations.”

Explore the issue of corporate exits in New Jersey and the need for a focus on retaining businesses that drive the economy.

10/08/2026

New Jersey March for Life, Trenton, Oct. 8, 2026. Hundreds of supporters gathered outside the Statehouse for the New Jersey March for Life, hosted by March for Life and New Jersey Right to Life. State and federal lawmakers addressed the rally before participants marched down State Street.

(All photos Assembly Republican Office/Jennifer Peacock)

10/07/2026

Following today's news from Governor Mikie Sherrillthat the MVC voter registration problems keep growing, Assembly Republicans are calling on the majority to act on our 7-bill election integrity package.

The package includes voter ID, proof of citizenship requirements at the MVC, stronger voter roll maintenance, mail-in ballot security, and a special legislative committee with subpoena power to get to the bottom of what happened.

Sherrill says she supports voter ID. Our bill is right there waiting.

New Jerseyans deserve more than updates — they deserve reforms that make sure this never happens again.

https://www.njassemblygop.com/m/newsflash/home/detail/1081

10/07/2026

Governor Mikie Sherrill issued a press release at 3 p.m. today to announce MVC voter registration "reforms," but buried in the details is the real story: more problems keep surfacing.

Today's update revealed 750 additional records handled badly, 340 potentially improper registrations from prison re-entry events dating back 10 years, and 50 people who were improperly registered actually voted.

Every time they look, they find more. New Jerseyans deserve a full accounting of what happened to their voter rolls — not a press release that spins a growing problem as a victory.

Assembly Republicans will keep pushing for answers.