New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and state lawmakers are preparing for a possible shutdown that's been threatened by a top lawmaker who wants to cut state aid to about 100 districts.

The Murphy administration also sent out a contingency plan on Friday since Democratic Senate President Stephen Sweeney noted at a Thursday press conference that, after shutting down the government last year, "I'm willing to do it again." At issue is Sweeney's strong push for legislation that would modify the state's school funding law, phasing out the so-called "adjustment aid" that, he believes, compensates districts that don't need it anymore.

See list of New Jersey school districts that could be impacted below. Sweeney said reforms are needed to allow the school aid formula to "realize its goal of providing full and fair funding for all of New Jersey's school districts."

The changes would shift $68 million from districts Sweeney considers overfunded to some of the most "underfunded" ones and ensure every district receives at least 58 percent of the funding they should receive from the state, according to Politico, adding that some districts are funded at 20 percent or 45 percent. The New Jersey Future Fund has listed districts that it considers underfunded and overfunded (see below).

The Murphy administration, meanwhile, has released proposed state aid numbers for every school district in the 2018-19 school year with the objective of providing aid increases – some of them sizable – to nearly every school district.

The budget talks have led to some heated discussions, according to nj.com, between the Murphy administration and Sweeney's people – both Democrats, ironically. As a possible impasse loomed, Matthew J. Platkin, chief counsel to the Murphy administration, distributed a memo Friday that says the administration "remains committed to working with the legislature to successfully achieve a balanced budget by June 30th."