If the Legislature doesn’t pass a budget by the end of the two-year fiscal period, the state government will shut down.

It is down to the wire for the Minnesota Legislature to pass the next two-year budget. The regular session ends when the clock strikes midnight.

With just hours remaining in the regular 2025 legislative session on Monday, Minnesota lawmakers still hadn’t granted final passage to major pieces of the upcoming two-year state budget, including ...

Lawmakers are still working towards the tax bill and bonding bill. If the bonding bill isn't passed before the midnight ...

Three years in the making, committee A overwhelmingly approved the measure today, which is up for a final vote in the plenary ...

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Deal comes after about two weeks of closed-door negotiations. A special session may be needed to finish the work.

Leaders in a divided Minnesota Legislature and Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday announced a roughly $66 billion budget deal to fund ...

Gov. Tim Walz and leaders of the Minnesota Legislature have announced a hard-fought budget deal. They used the occasion Thursday to contrast the bipartisan cooperation that produced the agreement with ...

Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leaders announced a budget agreement Thursday that they’ll have to sprint to complete ahead of ...

Dana Ferguson MPR News Efforts to finalize and pass state budget bills are hitting a sticking point as legislative leaders and the governor struggle to bring negotiations about a budget framework to a ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and leaders of the divided legislature have reached an agreement on a budget deal, with just days left before the end of the legislative session.