Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called for compromise in negotiations to replenish the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund and to pay frontline worker bonuses during his fourth State of the State address. The address last nit comes with four weeks left in the session as lawmakers figure out how to use the state’s $9.25 billion budget surplus and more than $1 billion in federal pandemic funds.
Walz has suggested returning some of that money back to taxpayers in the form of checks to each household in the state.
The Democratic governor’s address was be the last of his term before he faces a stiff challenge from Republicans later this year. It will be his first address at the Capitol since the pandemic began.
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