The debate over White Bear Township has reached the State Capitol, creating policy questions for ‘trifecta’ celebrates at capitol as walz signs 38 percent increase in state budget residents.
Republicans have criticized the DFL's willingness throughout the session to spend all of the $17.5 billion surplus and create $9.5 billion in tax increases, weighed against a rather paltry $260 per person rebate check for only about half of Minnesota taxpayers.
During his “One Minnesota Budget” victory lap press conference outside the Capitol steps on Wednesday, Gov.
Tim Walz told an audience of mostly DFL legislators, staff and activists that the 2023 legislative session will be remembered as historic — not just because it signaled a 38 percent increase in state spending from one biennium to the next, but because the DFL “trifecta” held together in its approval of nearly every major legislative goal it set out to accomplish.
“Remember those at the beginning of session told us ‘they will never hold a majority of one together,'” Walz said as he was flanked by DFL legislative leaders and constitutional officers nodding and smiling as he recounted their legislative accomplishments.
“’They will never do the things to protect our reproductive rights, to protect our trans children, to protect our environment, to make sure we have a more inclusive economy.’ They told us that wouldn’t happen.
Don’t tell them that couldn’t happen, because they just showed you it can.” Be it the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act, recreational marijuana legalization, the “Trans Refuge” bill, a public safety bill that featured two new gun control restrictions, or a transportation bill that included more than $1 billion in new sales taxes and delivery fees — the Democrats overcame their doubters and held together to accomplish the “One Minnesota” agenda with their six-seat majority in the House and one-seat majority in the Senate, Walz said.
“More than 2.5 million people last November showed up and cast votes,” Walz said.
As the measure advances, residents of White Bear Township can follow amendments and contact Heather Gustafson regarding the final language.
Article Source: Alpha News: “DFL ‘trifecta’ celebrates at Capitol as Walz signs 38 percent increase in state budget”
