legislative leaders to question how much power she wields over policymaking.

"I think there could be some confusion when one wants to contact the administration on a specific issue," state Sen. Loretta Weinberg, D-Bergen, told NJ Advance Media earlier this month. "If there is, in fact, an official policy role for the first lady, I just think a little more clarity would be helpful."

NJ Advance Media reported on the renovations to the office to accommodate the first lady using receipts obtained under the Open Public Records Act.

Prior to the WNYW Fox 5 interview, Murphy appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where he reflected on his first three months and predicated a Democratic wave of sorts in the state in the upcoming midterm elections.

New Jersey has 12 U.S. House of Representatives.and slightly below the average of federal deficits over the past 40 years.

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CBO's current economic projections differ in some respects from the ones issued in February 2014. The agency has significantly lowered its projection of growth in real GDP for 2014, reflecting surprising economic weakness in the first half of the year. However, the level of real GDP over most of the coming decade is projected to be only modestly lower than estimated in February. In addition, CBO now anticipates lower interest rates throughout the projection period and a lower unemployment rate for the next six years.

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The CBO projects the deficit will decline further in 2015, and will be at or below 3% of GDP through fiscal 2019. Then the deficit will