{"id":123175,"date":"2026-02-04T22:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123175\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:15:08","slug":"jersey-city-faces-staggering-250m-budget-deficit-solomon-slams-fulop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123175\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey City Faces \u2018Staggering\u2019 $250M Budget Deficit. Solomon Slams Fulop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Jersey City is faced with a $250 million budget deficit because of past \u201cmisdeeds, corruption, and incompetence,\u201d Mayor James Solomon revealed Wednesday afternoon in <a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JC-Financial-Emergency-Report-vF.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a bombshell report<\/a>. In the 24-page \u201cJersey City Financial Emergency Report,\u201d Solomon laid the blame squarely at the feet of his predecessor, Steven M. Fulop.<\/p>\n<p>Get two free articles a month!<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<\/p>\n<p>An account was already registered with this email. Please check your inbox for an authentication link.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/andy-milone\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/f94522e67a2a9a3b8b474fad26b145d65ae7da9c8148868127c4a22281154e22.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAndy Milone is a staff reporter for the Jersey City Times who primarily covers local government. You can reach him at 201-406-7222 (call\/text) or amilone@jcitytimes.com. Follow him on X (Twitter) @ATMilone,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/andy-milone\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Andy Milone\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/assata\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Assata-Headshot-80x80.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tE. Assata Wright is a staff writer who covers zoning, development, infrastructure, and transit. For six years she covered Hudson County politics and municipal issues as a staff writer for the Hudson Reporter,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/assata\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by E. Assata Wright\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey City is faced with a $250 million budget deficit because of past \u201cmisdeeds, corruption, and incompetence,\u201d Mayor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-123175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}