>> Tonight :00 is ticking on the country hitting the default deadline.

Today in New Jersey, Congressman Paul alone outlined the risk, blaming Republicans for playing politics.

>> They are saying unless you do these things, we are not going to pay our bills.

>> Play ball.

The historic Hinchcliffe Stadium opens.

>> That no history is erased.

>> The city is now hoping this multipurpose complex not only fills the stands but revitalizes the community.

Also, while -- someone to oversee the purchase and distribution of the life-saving opioid.

>> New Jersey has wrapped up efforts to get Naloxone in the hands of those who need.

>> Andy Kim talks AAPI heritage month.

>> This is creating a new era of xenophobia.

>> Spotlight news begins now.

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I am Raven Santana.

Debt ceiling talks in Washington on pause.

Republican House negotiators saying President Biden's team is being unreasonable.

In New Jersey, Frank Pallone saying it is a Republican manufactured.

>> Act, it says unless you make these cuts, 22% across-the-board, then we will not lift the debt ceiling and pay our bills.

>> As lawmakers hammer out an agreement to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a default, Congressman Frank Pallone addressed constituents would stand to lose funding if the house plan moves forward.

>> And then we are talking about the negative impacts of the actual default itself, got her bed.

>> The bill ties an increase to the debt ceiling to a 22% cut in spending.

This group came together to share with the loss in federal funding would mean for their communities.

Folks like veterans.

>> 22 veterans a day suicide because they are not getting the help they need.

They have no place to turn.

No facilities to help.

Aside from that, we have thousands of veterans that are homeless.

They can't cope with society.

We need more money to help veterans, not less there it >> educators concerns the spending cuts include pre-k and early learning programs.

>> We notice an achievement gap from students who come to our schools from AP -- from a preschool program, but helps parents join the workforce.

These dollars have a direct impact on our society today and in four years, eight years and 20 years.

I implore whomever is listening, more money for preschool education.

>> it owed also include cuts to snap that provides meals to low income families and individuals.

>> the proposed cuts would eliminate food assistance for at least 43,000 women, infants and children in New Jersey.

They would also threaten access to food assistance for 11,000 people aged 50 to 55 here in New Jersey.

>> President Biden says he is considering adding work requirements to snap benefits?

>> He is wrong.

There is no need for that.

All of these programs require you to work anyway if you are able.

It is not going to put more people to work, it is going to deprive people who can't work of getting food and nutrition.

>> Seniors could see cuts in housing and food.

>> Seniors are the ones who have worked for -- as the backbone of this country.

To those who want to cut, I say shame on you.

>> The House bill won't go anywhere in the Democrat-controlled Senate and as negotiations continue, advocacy groups are calling on Washington to look for additional funding sources.

>> How about raising revenue by asking wealthy people and wealthy corporations to pay their fair share?

>> The president 10 speaker are expected to reach a deal after Biden returns from the G7 summit.

>> Players will once again take the field at the newly renovated Hinchcliffe Stadium.

Officials in Patterson reopened the stadium, formerly home to some historic Negro Leagues.

The stadium was built in 1932 but was abandoned in 1997 and set for demolition.

With the help of activists, it was saved from the wrecking ball and a $94 million renovation was announced.

Now the project, which includes a newly renovated facility and other improvements, is a sign of revitalization for Patterson.

Ted Goldberg reports as the opening comes after the state Attorney General took over operations of Patterson's police force.

>> Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the new and improved historic Hinchcliffe Stadium.

>> As part of a project totaling $94 million, Hinchcliffe Stadium has gone from stale to state-of-the-art.

>> The last time the stadium was open was in 1997.

If you were to ask me what would happen first, the Mets would win another World Series or Hinchcliffe Stadium would reopen?

I would have bet on the Mets.

>> Hundreds of people piled in for the formal reopening of the stadium, finally open after decades of neglect and ready to host his first professional baseball game and more than 70 years.

Celebrities and senators were on hand to usher in a new era.

>> It stumbled and fell and hurt and struggled.

It became an eye sore.

But just like this nation, there are people who refuse to stop believing.

>> We have seen pictures of the stated was in and what it has been transformed to now.

You have got to have vision to see this.

Where there is no vision, people perish.

>> Hinchcliffe Stadium has hosted boxing matches but his most famous for Negro League baseball.

People at the ribbon-cutting emphasize how important it was for local activists to preserve this piece of history, since only one other Negro League stadium is still standing.

>> There are so many efforts going on to Barry our past or smooth it over.

There are a lot of truths we have in the Negro Leagues that need to be told, stories to be celebrated.

Because of the hardship and challenges, but what folk overcame.

>> the kids need to note here they need to understand.

There is not a color in this country that does not participate in our collective history.

These are the reasons.

Places like this will disappear if we keep shoving them under the rug.

>> This third-base line does not just lead from home plate to the edge of the Great Falls and the water below.

This line connects to our history through the generations who came before, including those who have given up place to play when so many other gates were locked.

>> This stadium would have been demolished if it wasn't listed on the register of historic places in 2004.

>> Our entire country can learn.

To imagine this new stadium in these grounds is a place where local youth can run, jump and play, hit a baseball, kick a soccer ball.

>> Hinchcliffe Stadium will be the home of the New Jersey jackals in a home for athletes in Patterson for years to come.

>> Care without consequences, that is what immigration activists say the values act can provide if past.

The bill would allow immigrant residents to seek public services without the fear of being deported.

Advocates held a virtual panel to pass the values act which would strengthen and codify the separation between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration enforcement.

Alyssa Rose Cooper has more on the bill that advocates say would decrease the chances of -- leading to life altering consequences and prevent more New Jerseyans from living their lives in fear.

>> Immigrant power.

>> Justice activists calling on lawmakers to pass the values act.

>> This bill is long overdue.

Our communities deserve justice, axis, confidence -- access.

>> The measure would allow immigrant residents to seek public services without fear of being deported by establishing a number of privacy protections like prohibiting the sharing of someone's immigration status through collecting personal information.

>> It is crucial our state government ensures those in our community who are at most risk are protected from ice and other federal government surveillance for the values act will codify and close loopholes in the immigrant trust directive and prohibit local police from corroborating with and limit the information they can share.

>> Almost one in four New Jerseyans are immigrants, yet despite this rich diversity, too many immigrants in New Jersey and their families live in fear that a visit to the emergency room where routine interaction with law enforcement, or even a school drop off will result in separation.

>> Fears advocates say are experienced too often among immigrant communities.

>> One of -- leaders a couple of years ago was coming home from dropping their child off at daycare when they were surrounded by ICE, outside of their home, dragged from their car and sent to a detention center.

This friend was detained because of a marijuana charge from many years prior that they had already served time for.

When is New Jersey going to start passing laws and legislation that treat people as human beings and not numbers to fill up detention centers, prisons and juvenile corrections facilities?

>> every single person, no matter where you were born, no matter what language you speak, no matter how or if you pray, no matter your ZIP Code, every single person has inherent worth and dignity.

>> The bill is currently assigned to the Senate Judiciary committee, which met Thursday.

What the values act was not on their agenda.

>> Over the course of the last 12 months to a slate of bad bills masquerading under the guise of public safety have come before this legislature.

Bills that would raise minimum sentences, bills with harsher penalties, bills that would rollback major reforms that we have won.

Yet, the values act, which would codify existing protections that we already have, the values act which would expand this protections and make them permanent, has not been heard.

>> Senate President Nicholas Qatari declined to comment on when the legislature would discuss the values act.

We also reached out to Craig Coghlan and are waiting for response.

In the meantime, immigrant advocates say they will continue to make their voices heard until the values act becomes law.

>> Nearly half one million doses of the open rate antidote Naloxone have been used or given away by New Jersey officials, enabling first responders, school officials and others to save someone from a potentially fatal drug overdose.

As state and local governments and nonprofit organizations continue to expand Naloxone programs, some lawmakers believe it is time for a single person to oversee New Jersey's bulk purchase and distribution of Narcan, which is why the state is searching for a Narcan are.

A committee voted yesterday in favor of a bill that would create the position of statewide opioid coordinator within the Department of human services, which oversees many harm reduction services.

Intercurrent distribution, what is sold over-the-counter.

What are the qualifications for the job?

How do you apply?

To break it down, legal Stayton joins me.

What is causing the need for this?

>> it is interesting.

New Jersey has really ramped up efforts to get Naloxone into the hands of people who need it.

That is what every expert says.

This is not a medicine you can run to the drug server.

You need to have it in your purse.

In your trunk.

The state has done a lot toward that objective.

They got a portal where people and groups can sign up and get Narcan through the Department of human services.

It is distributed to law enforcement.

Police, fire, EMS, librarians.

People in schools.

The question really is, do we need someone at the state level to coordinate purchasing and distribution?

It's not an argument I have heard before, but when you think about the numbers, maybe it makes sense.

>> So, why do you think this is critical to the state's efforts to be limited drug overdoses in general?

>> I think however the state decides to go forward, it is exactly about getting it into those people's hands.

I have heard from a lot of people, there's a lot of interest in a new program the Department of human services has started that would essentially partner with groups like the community Street team, Black Lives Matter Patterson, who have been working with people who use drugs and people who may not likely be ever to stop, let's be honest.

So, how do we keep them alive?

They are somebody's aunt, uncle, brother.

It is getting into those people who have relationships with individuals who are using drugs to art necessarily going to the doctor or the clinic and have other ways to get any kind of treatment.

If they can have Naloxone to reverse an opioid overdose, that is another life saved.

>> When we refocus on this position, for anyone who is listening who may think they are the person for the job, what are the requirements needed for this role?

Who can apply?

What does it involve?

>> This is still early in the process.

The bill has not passed, so who knows if it would become law.

It sounds like something Governor Murphy would support, but he might also say we have someone doing the job.

I think what they were looking for in the draft bill is someone with experience either in addiction, community, law enforcement, someone who is a health care worker, just someone who obviously has experience around people who need Naloxone.

And that make sense.

>> Thank you so much for joining me.

Excellent reporting per usual.

>> Good to talk to you.

>> For more, check out Lilo's reporting.

Internet spotlight on business, New Jerseyans who work in New York have pay their taxes to New York for years.

Even after the pandemic sent many workers home to the Garden State full-time.

Now some lawmakers in Trenton are trying to change that.

A new bill moving through the statehouse would allow New Jersey residents who successfully challenge out-of-state income taxes for a refund to also receive a credit worth up to half of that refund amount.

The bill would also establish a 25 million-dollar pilot program that would try to encourage out-of-state businesses that employ New Jersey residents to move those people to in-state locations.

The measures are being considered as state leaders are trying to push back against New York's congestion pricing proposal which would create new tolls for drivers entering lower Manhattan.

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That is Sunday morning at 9:30 ♪ ♪ >> Congressman Andy Kim says Asian American Pacific Islander heritage month is a time to celebrate and honor Asian American culture.

He has been active in the effort to bring an Asian American history Museum to Washington, D.C. but it is also a time to reckon with the very real anti-Asian hate crimes.

Tonight, Kim will host his 63rd monthly town hall with special attention on AAPI issues in Marlborough.

>> It is always good to catch up with you.

I'm curious how you plan to have conversations around AAPI month when so much has changed.

The claimant has been tough.

>> it has been tough.

We have to connect them in two ways.

First of all, I am glad I am glad I'm doing this town hall.

It is going to be my 63rd town hall as a member of Congress.

I try to hold one at least every single month.

To use this as an opportunity to lift up AAPI heritage month, that is something we have to embrace both the good inherent in New Jersey.

We require the teaching of AAPI history.

But we also have to show that there are still challenges out there.

Discrimination and violence.

Anything making the community fearful, including in New Jersey.

>> I know something that has been a legislative priority for you.

>> We have been working a lot in terms of implement in the COVID-19 hate crimes Bill.

Right now, there's a lot that I'm working on, trying to address what we have increased tensions from China, we need to make sure this is not creating xenophobia.

I still think about this horrible incident on a public bus in Indiana where a young woman of Asian descent was stabbed multiple times by another person on the bus.

She said, that's one less person trying to blow up our country.

We got to be sure we are recognizing the community in each other and recognizing that kind of violence has no place in our country.

>> I have been having conversation was -- with folks who say they are conflicted about this month designation because these are topics and visibility's that need to be around all the time.

You have been working to get a national Museum put together, which I believe the president wants to put in motion.

Can you update us on that?

>> the hope is that eventually we will have it Museum.

I would love to see it as part of the Smithsonian, a place that tells stories of hundreds of Asian Americans and the contributions they make to every facet.

I think the way we need to show it is that our story is not just an Asian American story, it is fundamentally an American story.

And so, that is part of it.

But the process, the legislation is starting the process.

We still have many hurdles to go, but that is something I very much look forward to bring my voice to at some point.

>> Representative Andy Kim, think it's much.

>> IQ.

>> That is all we have for you tonight, but tune into Reporters Roundtable with David Cruise this weekend when he talks to assembler Ben Brian Bergen about a federal judge's decision to block most of the state's new gun carry laws.

And then a panel of local reporters break down the big political headlines of the week.

That is Saturday at 6:00 p.m. and Sunday at 10:00 a.m. And then on Chat Box, the fight between New York and New Jersey lawmakers over congestion pricing.

Both here on NJ PBS.

I am a Raven Santana.

For the entire team, thanks for being with us.

Have a great weekend and we will see right here on Monday.

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