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House Republicans are here and ready to work for the people of Minnesota.
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Today is the ninth day in a row that House Democrats haven't shown up for work while still collecting their taxpayer-funded paychecks.
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NEW FRAUD SCANDAL: KSTP reports on a new fraud scandal unfolding in Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) where providers who receive millions of taxpayer dollars seem to not be providing any child care at all. Watch👇
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BREAKING: The Benton County Board just unanimously passed a resolution condemning Rep. Dan Wolgamott for not showing up to work. "I don't care what side it is. Ultimately, it's taxpayer dollars paying their wages. If they're not going to show up to work, that's a disgrace."
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🚨🚨BREAKING: MN Supreme Court sides with Republicans, declares that Walz violated the law by prematurely calling the Special Election in District 40B. The January 28, 2025 special is CANCELED. The House DFL will now have 66 members to our 67 for much longer than they originally
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Committee hearings kicked off at 8:15 AM sharp today - without a single House Democrat in attendance. Today is day 10 of the House DFL Caucus not showing up to work while collecting their taxpayer-funded paychecks.
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A law professor from the University of Minnesota made it absolutely clear in the StarTribune this week: "It is the Democrats, if anyone, who are engaged in a constitutional coup."
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Yesterday, Walz lied by saying that the House was tied 67-67. Today, the Supreme Court found that Walz violated election law by calling the District 40B Special Election prematurely. The House will now stay 66-67 for even longer than Walz anticipated because he broke the law.
WATCH: Gov. Tim Walz falsely claims that the Minnesota House is tied 67-67. Democrats currently hold only 66 seats after one of their candidates was caught running in a district he didn't live in. A special election will decide if the House is tied later this month.
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$730 MILLION in taxpayer dollars for a new office building in Saint Paul, initiated in 2022 by the House DFL. This is not a reasonable expenditure.
$784 MILLION in taxpayer dollars for a new U.S. embassy in South Sudan, initiated in 2023. This is not a reasonable expenditure. Source: .
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After four days of not showing up to work, House Democrats are now turning off replies so they don’t have to hear from their constituents. Meanwhile, House Republicans are at the Capitol working to make Minnesota a better place to work, live, and raise a family.
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Majority Leader @HarryNiska: "The Minnesota Constitution says that the grounds for recall include nonfeasance of office. If nonfeasance of office means anything with legislators, not showing up for work at the statutorily-defined time certainly counts."
As Majority Leader Niska said at our press conference earlier this week, legislators who don't show up for work on the first day of session can expect to be recalled.
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Rep. Vang has a provision in the Judiciary Bill that creates a government database of “hate incidents” (not crimes, which are already tracked). Rep. Vang says “hate incidents” could include:. - Writing an article saying COVID came from China .- Wearing a “I ♥️ JK Rowling” shirt
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Democrat Sen. Ann Rest calls out her own party for the billions in tax increases they are pushing through. “We seem to have an insatiable appetite for raising taxes.”
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All 66 House Democrats were absent from today's floor session again. Today is day 15 of the Democrat Shutdown - it's time to show up for work.
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BREAKING: Every state agency led by Walz's administration received a letter from House Republican members requesting information on remote work policies, DEI-related FTEs, unfilled positions, and other information in light of the looming $5.1 billion deficit. None responded.
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UNBELIEVABLE: In a hot mic moment, Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman threatens to silence the voice of the minority and end debate on the House Floor, after already shutting Republicans out of conference committees. “And they won’t get to talk anymore.” #mnleg
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Last night on @tptAlmanac DFL Leader Hortman made a claim so absurd that the host burst out laughing. She claimed that yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling somehow brought the House back to a tie. In reality, the 40B seat will be filled after a Special Election in March. House
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A quorum - 67 of 133 members - is present in the chamber and we are ready to do the people's work. First up, electing @LisaDemuthMN as Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
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The entire DFL Caucus was absent from the House of Representatives today for the 16th day in a row.
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Governor Walz’s budget released today includes a tax increase. House Republicans have been absolutely clear - tax hikes are DEAD this year. We must cut spending to address the looming $5.1 billion deficit.
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Governor Walz will tell you that he proposed a "tax cut" in his budget yesterday. But his "tax cut" actually increases tax revenue by hundreds of millions of dollars. How? He proposed cutting the sales tax so that on a $100 purchase you'd save 7.5 cents while making the sales.
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Every House Democrat was absent from yesterday’s floor session. Today marks the fourth day taxpayers are footing the bill for members who choose not to show up to work.
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Rep. Kristi Pursell helped organize the disruptive protest in this week's Public Safety Committee hearing the day before it happened. Rep. Pursell should show up for work instead of working to derail committee hearings, but she's convinced that her constituents "want her to not
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Democrats voted down an amendment that would have limited how much taxpayer money Gov. Walz can spend on rent while the Governor's Mansion undergoes renovations. He is currently slated to move into a $17,000 per month lakeside mansion.
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Correct. #NoWorkNoPay.
SESSION DAILY: Proposed House rules changes would ax per diem pay for absent members . #mnleg #mnhouse
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"What if Democrats don't show up on day one?". Speaker-Designate Demuth: "What I will tell you is that House Republicans will be here on day one and we'll be ready to go to work for the State of Minnesota."
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Yesterday the Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Committee heard testimony from the HR Director of Becker County Schools about how the DFL's Earned Sick and Safe Time and Paid Family Leave laws are negatively affecting schools across Minnesota. It's worth a watch. "This
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WATCH: Majority Whip and Chair of the State Government Committee @JimNashMN sat down with the Walz Administration to discuss how the Governor's budget would address the $5.1 billion deficit. They didn't have an answer. Instead, the Administration is asking for tens of millions
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Rep Lucy Rehm (occupation: government), while reading from her phone, tells farmers that they must save their family farms by selling out to solar developers. “Solar is the new corn!”
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Republicans were fully present today while the House DFL enters their third week of not showing up for work.
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Instead of showing up for work, Rep. Finke and the House DFL are collecting a taxpayer-funded paychecks while encouraging left-wing activists to disrupt committee hearings.
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WATCH: DFL Leader Hortman admits their campaign arm paid for the room rental for last night’s secret swearing-in ceremony, allowing members to collect taxpayer-funded paychecks while refusing to show up to work.
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The Democrats successfully sued to impede the 2025 Legislative Session. Nothing has changed, except now the Democrats have, by dissolving our committees, brought the entire House of Representatives to a halt. It’s time to get back to work. House Republicans will be in Saint.
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NEW: Speaker-Designate @LisaDemuthMN and Majority Leader @HarryNiska sent a letter to Secretary of State Steve Simon this morning, responding to his letter sent late last week. The main points:. ✅ On January 14, 67 members of the House will constitute a quorum. ✅ As the
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This is how the Democrats ended session tonight - by forcibly cutting off debate and breaking their own legislative rules to deceptively pass a $700 million tax increase. This one is worth a watch.
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In 2025, House Republicans are set to create a first of its kind fraud committee with full subpoena power. Are Democrats threatening to not to show up for work to try to stop a full investigation into fraud?.
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House Democrats claim that instead of showing up to work at the State Capitol, they’re hard at work in their districts listening to constituents. But it couldn’t be more clear that they aren’t talking to their constituents at all. From KSTP: “Hundreds to attend ‘Black
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Rep Her just said on the House Floor that we shouldn't allow women to keep guns in their own homes for self-defense because they aren't trained well enough.
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Brad Tabke didn’t show up for work at the Capitol yesterday but he made sure to show up to an insiders’ dinner gala in St. Paul. Brad’s week:.✅ Democrat Fundraiser.✅ Dinner Gala.❌ Showing up for work
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Speaker-Designate @LisaDemuthMN explaining the House GOP's new Oversight Committee:. "We need to stop the fraud. Walz's proposal to have the executive branch police itself won't work. You'll see Republican proposals moving through the Legislature this year."
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Rep. Pinto appears to believe that felons illegally buying and selling guns behind gas stations will comply with his universal background check bill.
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Every day the House DFL Caucus fails to show up to work while still getting paid, their paychecks cost the taxpayers nearly $10,000.
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Rep. Vang explains that we have to raise fees on farmers (64% increase in the fertilizer inspection fee) because we just don't have the money to fund the Department of Agriculture otherwise. This bill increases the Department's budget by 32% and we have an $18 billion surplus.
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It's official - the Journal of the House recorded the absence of all 66 members of the House DFL on the first day of session yesterday. Did your member show up?
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In defending the DFL’s offender-friendly public safety bill, Rep. Hollins admits she and her caucus “don’t even really like” funding law enforcement. Hollins also said it was “really difficult” for Democrats to get behind tougher penalties for fentanyl dealers.
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"Will Duluth’s Reps. Liish Kozlowski and Pete Johnson really continue to leave our city unrepresented in the House? For weeks on end? For heaven knows how long? Will they continue to put their party’s power interests ahead of their constituents’ and community’s very-real
Our View: DFLers leave Duluth unacceptably unrepresented
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How much time, money and resources are the 67 House members willing to waste this session? No Speaker can be sworn in and no bills can pass without 68 votes. After 2 weeks of taxpayer-funded sham meetings and a SC ruling on quorum, what is the MN GOP plan? #mnleg.
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Committee hearings are underway this morning and House Democrats still haven't shown up.
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Representative Lisa Demuth (R-Cold Spring) is elected Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives for the 2025-2026 biennium.
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House Republican priorities: Stopping fraud, repealing the delivery tax, the tax on Social Security benefits, and other tax cuts that will help everyday Minnesotans. House DFL priorities: Not showing up to work and organizing protests to disrupt committee hearings.
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Representative Vang has been absent from the floor the last two days, but it seems she was also absent in 2019 and 2021 when the House DFL passed the same organizing resolution - just like every other year.
If you were "duly organized" in the first place, you wouldn't need to pass your own resolution to say so. #mnleg.
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House Democrats think photos at abortion clinics and organizing their activists to disrupt committees are a stand in for doing their job and showing up to work. Remember: they’re still drawing their taxpayer-funded paychecks even though they’ve been absent for 7 days so far.
Instead of showing up for work, Rep. Finke and the House DFL are collecting a taxpayer-funded paychecks while encouraging left-wing activists to disrupt committee hearings.
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Former Speaker Hortman says fully eliminating the tax on Social Security benefits and repealing state-funded college tuition for illegal immigrants are nonstarters for the DFL.
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Rep. Andy Smith, speaking in favor of raising taxes while MN has a $19 billion surplus, says that "taxes are not evil" and goes on to say that the DFL trifecta was elected for the purpose of raising taxes.
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Rep. Sencer-Mura says that the entire DFL understands that their paid family leave mandate "will be hard on small businesses" but they need to make it work anyway. The bill adds over 400 new state employees to administer the program and a new payroll tax.
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Because the House DFL sued to shut down the House and still haven’t shown up to work…. ❌ There is nowhere for our members to introduce legislation. ❌ There are no committees. ❌ There are no bills on the floor . ✅ Democrats are still getting paid . Democrats - It’s time to.
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Dan Wolgamott fails to show up for the first day of the 2025 Legislative Session while still collecting his taxpayer-funded paycheck.
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LANGUAGE WARNING: Rep. Kaela Berg gets caught in a hot mic moment using colorful and offensive words to describe her Republican colleagues. “They’re just such assholes!”
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In a 2022 Rules Committee hearing that Winkler chaired, he and the DFL authorized the $730,000,000 State Office Building project, choosing to spend that money on a palace for politicians instead of something worthwhile, like badly needed like childcare.
Spending $100 million per year of Minnesota tax money on tax breaks for big tech is insane. Cancel the credit and spend the money on something worthwhile, like badly needed childcare. #mnleg .
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House Republicans will show up ready to work on day one ⬇️⬇️.
Minnesota’s legislative session starts this Tuesday!. As Democrats threaten to skip work, abandoning their constitutional duties, while still collecting their paychecks, House Republicans are ready to get to work for YOU and your family.
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WATCH: Rep. @ImSchultz asked what should've been a very easy question for the DFL majority: What percentage of our state budget should be spent on people here illegally?. TEN different DFL Reps refused to answer:. Hill.Rehm.Cha.Klevorn.Long.Brand.Pursell .Smith.Frederick.Bahner
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Rep. Hornstein argues for the DFL's new 75 cent delivery tax by saying "people will be impacted, yes, but they're already spending a lot of money [on delivery fees]"
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Rep Hornstein tries to mislead Minnesotans on his license tab fee increase. He claims that 11-year-old cars will see a reduction in fees leading to savings, but the reduction is $5 in year 11 and the increase in years 1-10 is around $250.
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Beyond Parody: Several House DFL legislators went to an abortion clinic yesterday instead of showing up to the Capitol for the first day of session.
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Former Speaker Hortman says that Governor Walz is "fully supportive" of the DFL refusing to show up on the first day of session while continuing to collect their paychecks.
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HOT MIC: Rep. Aisha Gomez, the Tax Committee Chair, says "oh here we go" when Rep. Davids asks what it means to demand that "the rich pay their fair share"
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NEW: House Republicans release 2025 session priorities. We're going to:.✅Stop the Fraud.✅Cut Taxes.✅Improve Educational Outcomes.✅Enact Permitting Reform.✅Support Public Safety.✅End Benefits for Illegal Immigrants.✅End the Nuclear Moratorium. Read 👇
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As Majority Leader Niska said at our press conference earlier this week, legislators who don't show up for work on the first day of session can expect to be recalled.
The MN Republican Party will announce Monday plans to file recall petitions against any state lawmaker who doesn’t show up to work at the State Capitol for opening day on Tuesday. House Democrats have threatened to stay away in a power-sharing dispute with Republicans.
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Rep. Hornstein says that “we do not have a surplus” and we need to raise taxes to fix potholes. #mnleg
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Democrat Rep. Lucy Rehm perpetuates a common gun control narrative, blaming the gun—not the criminal—for a heinous crime. “It wasn’t his mental illness that killed those people. It was his guns. Guns.”
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Rep. Acomb just bluntly admitted that the DFL’s energy bill increases costs for rate payers. #mnleg
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The House DFL sued to bring the entire House of Representatives to a halt and the Democrat Shutdown is now entering its third week - will today be the day the Democrats show up for work? Or will they continue collecting their paychecks from home?
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Foreign dignitaries over Minnesotans? Democrats are imposing government-mandated staffing levels for hospitals…except for those that serve kings and princes, according to Speaker Hortman. “There are not other hospitals in the state that have kings and princes flying in.”
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House Republicans fought to increase the penalty for straw purchasers on the Floor today. Rep Niska: "This is real simple. if you learned anything from Burnsville, make straw purchasing a felony so that our state prosecutors can prevent the next Burnsville. Vote yes."
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Unreal: Rep. Klevorn says that the government can only fix potholes and lower crime if the DFL raises taxes because “that’s what they were sent here to do.”. #mnleg
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The DFL's Elections Bill allows a voter to register by describing where they live instead of providing a physical address. Meaning, as Rep. Nash put it, "in a van down by the river" would be enough to vote.
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House Republicans have been trying to stop fraud for years. The Democrat trifecta took no action from 2023-2024 and now they're boycotting the 2025 session so our new Fraud and Oversight Committee can't officially meet.
The Walz Administration has lost hundreds and hundreds of millions dollars to fraud in the past couple years. It’s unacceptable, and the only people on the hook for it are the taxpayers. I spoke about this briefly on the floor this session, take a look 👇
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In a rant against the free market, Rep. Her says that the people leaving Minnesota and the companies currently laying people off aren't doing so because of government policies. "These people never once thought about what the government is doing"
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Rep. Lislegard, who is from the Iron Range, tells rural Minnesotans to stop complaining about money spent on the metro because it’s “their money” and wasn’t generated in his district. “If you’re from Greater MN you need to understand where the money comes from.”
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More tax increases: The DFL's housing bill, if passed with Rep. Hornstein's transportation bill heard yesterday, would drive the sales tax in Minneapolis up to a whopping 9.03%. The author, Rep. Howard, deflects when asked if that is too high.
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Today the Benton County Board of Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution condemning Rep. Dan Wolgamott for not showing up to work. Read more 👇
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The DFL just gutted a Rep. Nash amendment that would've limited the Governor to $10,000 per month in rent instead of the current $17,000 while the Governor's Mansion undergoes millions in renovations.
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Rep. Bianca Virnig (D - Eagan):. “$250,000 per year does NOT necessarily mean that you are thriving.”. That’s three times Minnesota’s median household income.
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Democrats knew this would happen even before they passed this bill.
Rep. Sencer-Mura says that the entire DFL understands that their paid family leave mandate "will be hard on small businesses" but they need to make it work anyway. The bill adds over 400 new state employees to administer the program and a new payroll tax.
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Yesterday House Republicans spoke against a bill that would create a FULL-TIME LEGISLATURE in the State of Minnesota. It took just five months for the majority party to blow through a record-breaking surplus last year and as we know, if you give a mouse a cookie.
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Rep. Tabke laments that he wasn't able to stop Amazon from building a warehouse in his district while he was mayor - "We weren't able to keep that from happening.". The warehouse employs almost 2,000 of his constituents.
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Former Speaker Hortman confirms DFL members plan to collect their salaries even if they don't show up to work during the first two weeks of session.
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Majority Leader Dziedzic attempts to justify raising the gas tax and the new delivery tax (while having a surplus), saying the taxes are “cheaper than if you drive over a bad pothole and have to get your car fixed.”. The two tax increases alone will cost Minnesotans $612 million.
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Speaker-designate @LisaDemuthMN and Majority Leader @HarryNiska wrote a letter to Secretary of State Steve Simon today clarifying that there will be a quorum present tomorrow. Read more below 👇
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House Republicans continue working for the people of Minnesota by gaveling in the first committee hearing of the 2025 Session. The House DFL members didn't show up.
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Rep. Lislegard says that, while he is supposedly against raising taxes, he is “proud” to seize this moment to do exactly that by passing the Tax Bill. Minnesota has a record breaking $18 billion surplus. “Our moment was now and we seized it. And I’m proud that we seized it.”
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As the all-DFL Public Safety Conference Committee wrapped up, Sen. Ron Latz thanked his fellow Democrats for the work they’ve done behind closed doors. “You’ve done so much work at this table, and not at this table.”. Republicans were blocked from negotiation process.
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Two sets of rules? Democrats invent pre-filing requirement to dodge debate over the $730m politicians’ palace. Rep. Long: “We do not have a pre-filing requirement.”. Also Rep. Long: “Your motion was not submitted before the hearing … so I’m finding your motion out of order.”
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MN House GOP Speaker-designate @LisaDemuthMN issued the following statement this morning on the 54A ruling. "The underlying facts of the case remain unchanged: there were 20 ballots destroyed in a race decided by just 14 votes. ". Read more 👇
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The amendment that she's speaking against exempts women who have been the victim of stalking or who have an active restraining order from the firearm storage mandate.
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Rep Franson's amendment to the firearm storage mandate exempts women who have been the victim of stalking, or who have an active restraining order. Rep Pinto then says that those women shouldn't be able to have guns quickly accessible in their own homes for self-defense.
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Today, a new fraud scandal in the Walz Administration was uncovered by KSTP. Read more 👇
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