Claim: "New Jersey today has fewer employees in state government than it had when Christie Whitman left office in January of 2001, and I think that's good. And we did it without any layoffs. We did it through attrition."
Fact-check: Chris Christie claims New Jersey has reduced the number of state employees without any layoffs to below the level when Christie Whitman resigned
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Bill Wichert
Date published: 2012-07-16T00:00:00