Just 6 months ago, when appealing to Minnesotans for a second term, Gov. Walz said he does *not* support abortion up to the moment of birth.
And yet, today, he signs the PRO Act into law which allows precisely that.
You’re breaking your promise, Governor. Not keeping it.
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Gov. Walz calls for the
#mnleg
to use the surplus to put money back in Minnesotans’ pockets.
We agree — but instead of one-time election year checks, we need permanent and meaningful tax cuts for Minnesotans every year into the future.
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Walz repeatedly promised Minnesotans $2000 checks.
We’ve got the receipts.
Instead, Democrats raised taxes by $10 billion & are sending out just a fraction of what Minnesotans expected.
Many families won’t see a penny because Democrats squandered the record surplus.
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JUST IN: Minnesota tax rebates will start to go out this week.
Payments of $260 - up to $1,300 for a household - will show up in bank accounts/mailboxes in waves.
Rebates going to married filers with < $150K earnings in 2021; singles < $75k. Plus up to 3 dependents.
NEW:
@KSTP
shows GOP plan to eliminate social security taxes is supported by 81% of Minnesotans.
House Democrats and Gov. Walz oppose full social security relief, putting them on the side of just 7% of Minnesotans.
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Democrats blew through a $17.5 billion budget surplus, raised taxes by nearly $10 billion and still spent Minnesota into a projected budget deficit all in less than a calendar year.
Minnesotans and their families cannot afford Democrats' reckless tax and spend agenda.
Governor Walz thinks Republicans calling for a full repeal of the social security tax is just “crocodile tears.”
Tell that to the seniors looking for relief to help afford their groceries and stay in the homes.
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In addition to allowing abortion up until the moment of birth, House Democrats admit their extreme House File 1 would allow a 13 year old girl to seek permanent sterilization.
No one voted for this. This is extreme, horrific, outrageous, and un-Minnesotan.
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A $17.6 billion surplus and
@GovTimWalz
wants MORE of your money.
His proposal includes tax increases for “Minnesotans who earn paychecks, shop in the seven-county Twin Cities metro area, buy fishing permits, own passenger vehicles…”
Billions in a surplus wasn’t enough?
After false allegations were leveled by
@mnhealth
about an incident in Eitzen, MN, Rep. Greg Davids is demanding an apology from MDH and
@GovTimWalz
.
Full Statement, and the response from the City of Eitzen below ⬇️
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We are in the middle of a border crisis, and Minnesota Democrats want to turn our state into a magnet for illegal immigration.
Minnesotans want a secure border—not to make our state a sanctuary state.
Read
@LisaDemuthMN
statement below.
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Rep. Altendorf offered an amendment tonight that would've banned private financing of our elections known as "Zuckerbucks." It failed 63-68.
"If you vote no on this amendment, you're saying that Minnesota's elections are for sale to the highest bidder."
Republicans want Minnesotans to have a say in our new flag.
Democrats talk endlessly about democracy, but allowed a 13 member unelected, unrepresentative panel change our flag, shutting out the voices of millions of Minnesotans.
Watch Live:
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Governor Walz is trying to find sneaky ways to raise taxes so he can spend more of your money.
One of those ways: a massive hike in motor tab fees.
Think your tabs are expensive now? Brace yourself to have to pay hundreds more each year.
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Democrats were quick to sign off on $500 million for a luxury office building for 134 politicians.
But it took Republicans using every bargaining chip they had to get $300 million for the 27,000 seniors in nursing homes across Minnesota.
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Let’s not lie about what the PRO Act is.
It isn’t “reproductive rights.”
It’s the right to an abortion up until the very moment of birth.
It’s the right to partial birth abortion.
It’s the right to sterilization of a 13 year old girl without parental consent.
It’s extreme.
Here in Minnesota, we trust people to make their own decisions about their bodies.
I’m ready to sign the PRO Act and codify reproductive rights into law.
Every book is banned to a student who can't read.
This is a manufactured controversy. Books aren't being banned.
The real crisis is the 50% of Minnesota students who can't read at grade level — a 10% drop since Gov. Walz took office.
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At a time when thousands of book titles are being banned across the country, Minnesota is making sure books remain accessible to teach and inspire the next generation of readers.
Democrats see the whopping $17.5 billion surplus and are ready to go on a spending spree.
Republicans have a different plan.
That surplus is your money—let’s give it back.
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Thousands of Minnesotans gathered peacefully yesterday for President Trump's rally in Minneapolis.
However, after the rally violent protesters assaulted Minnesotans, threw bottles at law enforcement and set fires in the streets.
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Right now, members are debating the DFL's Blackout Bill - a bill that will cost Minnesotans nearly $4,000 more every single year on energy and related costs. The standard in this bill is unaffordable, unreliable, and dangerous to Minnesotans.
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The State Office Building renovation is going to cost $730 million.
That’s more than double the Capitol restoration and more than 8x what it took to build the Senate Building.
Minnesotans shouldn’t be footing the bill for a luxury office building for 134 politicians.
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Court docs show an unidentified DFL State Rep made calls to help get a Feeding our Future site approved — a site with direct ties to the indicted fraudsters. Is this why House Democrats refuse to investigate and hold hearings on the largest fraud scandal in state history?
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Not only did Minnesotans not get the $2000 checks they were promised, now the checks are being taxed because Democrats missed a critical deadline.
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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said his office has filed a consumer-protection lawsuit against HavenBrook Homes, a hedge fund-owned landlord accused of failing to maintain its properties.
Minnesotans: We want tax cuts, safe communities, and reassurance that fraud and abuse in government programs is being weeded out.
Democrats: Best we can do is ban gas-powered lawn mowers and Zambonis.
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Today
@GovTimWalz
is announcing tax rebates that are just a fraction of the $2000 checks he promised Minnesota families.
The rebates aren’t even enough to cover one month of increased Biden/Walz inflation costs.
Promise broken.
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#Bidenomics
Minnesotans DON'T want to live in a Sanctuary state.
I along w/
@RepFischbach
,
@RepFinstad
, &
@GOPMajorityWhip
sent a letter to the Governor outlining the reasons we oppose the DFL's North STAR Act.
It's not too late to stop
#BidensBorderCrisis
from causing further harm to MN.
You know it’s bad when even the Star Tribune is catching on.
As Republicans warned, the Democrats’ Blackout Bill will cost $313 BILLION while also making blackouts a common occurrence.
Thank a Democrat when your energy bills skyrocket!
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Democrats voted to raise energy bills by $1,600/year for MN families.
They voted to make our electric grid unreliable when it’s needed most.
They voted to put Minnesotans at risk of winter blackouts when power outages could be catastrophic.
This is their Blackout Bill.
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The Speaker has threatened to force votes by calling the question in order to pass the ~25 remaining bills in the last 36 hours of session.
The Senate DFL’s deciding vote will be cast by a Senator who was just arrested for felony burglary.
This is the state of the DFL trifecta
Gov. Walz’s rhetoric on education doesn’t match reality - reading scores have dropped 10% during his time as governor, and half of Minnesota students can’t read at grade level.
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#MNSOTS
Democrats once again block Rep. Peggy Scott’s bill to increase penalties for straw purchasers.
County Attorneys have testified that they don’t pursue charges because penalties are too low.
Democrats refuse to fix it because they are the party of coddling criminals.
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This email makes clear that the Walz admin let politics—not science & data—drive decisions to shut down youth sports.
Even worse, Commissioners disagreed with the decision, but the Walz admin made those decisions behind closed doors without legislator or public input.
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Leader
@KDaudt
on Gov. Walz's press conference:
"Our priority is reducing our budget deficit & ending the governor’s emergency powers. If the governor & the other legislative leaders are willing to have a discussion on those items, we remain open to a bonding bill.”
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Under Chapter 12, Emergency Powers are over after a vote by the House and Senate. With votes now complete in both chambers, the peacetime emergency is over.
Now the work begins to make permanent reforms to Chapter 12 to rein in the Governor's emergency powers.
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House Republicans are pushing to block vaccine passports as part of the Health and Human Services bill.
Gov. Walz has stated he has "no intention" of bringing vaccine passports to Minnesota, let's put it in law.
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Today’s forecast confirms that runaway Democrat spending has put Minnesota on the brink of a budget deficit.
Spending is expected to exceed revenue by more than $1.5 billion — we need fiscal restraint and to look for ways to cut wasteful spending.
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On the 6th day of Christmas, Minnesota Democrats gave to us…
A motor vehicle sales tax increase up to 6.87%.
With vehicle prices at all-time highs, Democrats want you to pay even more to get behind the wheel making transportation even more cost-prohibitive for Minnesotans.
Citing guidance from the World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control, they said wearing a mask while participating poses "a potential health risk to participants and may cause more harm than the intended good.''
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NEW: House Republicans wrote to
@AGEllison
today calling for immediate action to address plans by the
@MinnesotaDFL
to break Minnesota election law at tonight's precinct caucuses.
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Iowa just signed a law giving parents — not government—the choice whether their children wear masks in school.
It's time to end the school mask mandate.
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$250 million stolen from taxpayers and used to buy luxury cars, foreign real estate, and more. All under the watch of the Gov. Walz who has a well documented history of failing to protect your tax dollars.
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THANK YOU to the Minnesota State Patrol, Minnesota National Guard, and all of the state and local law enforcement and first responders for their work last night to restore peace in downtown Minneapolis.
#Mpls
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Troopers and
@mndnr
conservation officers arrested 33 people last night in
#Minneapolis
while working to restore order and clear businesses of looters. Troopers arrested 28 people, the
@mndnr
arrested five.
@MinneapolisPD
will have overall arrest totals.
Did you hear?
We’re
#1
!…in taxes on job creators.
As of January 1st, Minnesota has the highest tax on businesses in the nation.
From ever-increasing taxes to one-size-fits-all mandates, Democrat policies are driving businesses—and the jobs they provide—out of state.
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"I think what would’ve been transformational was to have taken a $17.5 billion surplus and actually returned it to the taxpayers of Minnesota." -
@LisaDemuthMN
CONFIRMED (Thread):
FOX 9 Fact Check on Gov. Walz statement that jail time was threatened by Judge Guthmann if Feeding Our Future wasn't paid.
FOX 9 has confirmed jail time was *never* on the table in the Feeding Our Future v. MDE contempt hearing.
Democrats approved a law last session similar to the one that allowed Thompson to walk free in California. These five women should be alive today. Soft on crime policies do not make our communities safer.
It's been three weeks since we wrote to
@GovTimWalz
asking for action to prevent a tax hike on businesses that becomes official on Dec. 15.
There's no excuse to be raising taxes with a $7.7 billion surplus + $1B+ in unspent COVID funds.
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48TH OUT OF 50: As of today, Gov. Walz ranks nearly last in the nation for vaccine distribution. The Governor’s failed rollout is delaying protection for thousands of Minnesota seniors and front line workers.
See the data for yourself:
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249 days after news first broke about the Feeding Our Future scandal, House Democrats refuse to hold hearings and get answers on the largest fraud case in Minnesota history.
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This is what
@GovTimWalz
is doing today instead of answering questions from the media about his administration misleading Minnesotans about the largest fraud case in state history.
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Most Minnesotans didn’t even get enough of a raise to keep up with inflation…
But don’t worry! Members of the Walz administration—who already had six-figure salaries—got massive pay raises, up to $32,000!
Bureaucrats > Ordinary Minnesotans
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House Democrats heard a bill today that would raise gas prices by 20 cents/gallon or more, but blocked opponents from offering testimony and shut down questions after just a few minutes. They don't want Minnesotans to know the truth about their plans to raise gas prices.
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Even
@StribOpinion
agrees we can’t wait 6 months to fix this.
“With most schools opening on Tuesday, districts that want SROs in their buildings should have them back in school as soon as possible.”
Call a special session, Governor Walz.
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The Walz admin stonewalled media efforts to find how many Feeding our Future fraudsters were still receiving tax dollars from other programs.
Why the lack of transparency? Why has more not been done to put a stop to the rampant fraud across so many government programs?
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We first began asking state officials for information about Feeding Our Future defendants who had state contracts back in February. We were astounded by the number of nonprofits most of them had connections to, and wondered how many did business with the state in other ways. 🧵
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The
@StarTribune
confirms what we've known for weeks:
@GovTimWalz
&
@KeithEllison
had numerous opportunities to stop the largest fraud scandal in MN history.
They failed to act & let criminals steal $250 million of our tax dollars.
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Rolling out the new Red Flag law without the form terminate an ERPO is unacceptable.
Infringing on Minnesotans’ Second and Fourth Amendment rights is serious—there is no reason this constitutionally-dubious law should have taken effect without all the necessary forms.
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Democrats kept WalMart open while shutting down restaurants, breweries, bakeries, & more during the pandemic.
Walmart will be able to pay their UI bill—many small businesses will be hit with a tax increase they can't afford on top of inflation, gas prices, & energy bills.
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One day after we learned about more than $200 million in new cost overruns for SWLRT,
@GovTimWalz
is proposing $200m for another light rail line.
Until the bipartisan SWLRT audit is complete, we shouldn't spend another dime on these overpriced boondoggle projects.
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Wages are rising and we’re gaining more jobs each month. Our economy is strong and headed in the right direction.
This year, we’re going to focus on implementing the historic work we got done last session while continuing to lower costs and make life easier for Minnesotans.
Curved glass.
Brazilian wood.
$7.2 million total for a roadside bathroom.
This is what Democrats are spending trunk highway dollars on while they demand $12 billion in tax increases to pay for basic needs like roads & bridges.
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Without action from the legislature, Uber and Lyft will leave the state and threaten the freedom of mobility for vulnerable adults, seniors, and many other Minnesotans. We cannot let the far-left extreme of the DFL continue pushing businesses out of the state.
Democrats vote down an amendment that would make it harder to place Level 3 sex offenders in areas with high density of children, vulnerable adults, and day care centers.
No, seriously.
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This blatant antisemitism is reprehensible.
Any attempt to justify the horrific, unprovoked terrorist attacks on innocent Israeli citizens is unacceptable and the elected officials endorsed by the Twin Cities DSA must denounce these extreme views.
Schools are asking for clarity to help return SROs to their posts.
Unfortunately Gov. Walz is jet-setting to Japan and refusing to call a special session to fix the problem.
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This afternoon
@kdaudt
&
@JimNashMN
sent a letter to Secretary of State Simon urging an investigation into multiple potential violations of Minnesota election law from a video released on social media Sunday evening. Read the letter here:
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WATCH: Mayor Frey admits the Minneapolis police force is “incredibly diminished” & that Minneapolis “has one of the lowest per capita number of officers of any major city in the entire country.”
It’s time to fix this. If city leaders won’t, the legislature should step in.
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Attorney General
@KeithEllison
wants Minnesotans to believe he can't answer questions about the timeline of the Feeding our Future fraud scandal because of "Attorney-Client privilege" — Really?
Has he forgotten he works for the taxpayers?
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WATCH: Democrat Senator defends Maxine Waters as "an icon" after she came to Minnesota and incited violence against law enforcement.
23 Senate Democrats voted NO on a resolution supporting the
@MNNationalGuard
.
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House Democrats vote down an amendment to cut the MNsure tax that is driving up health care costs.
Last session Democrats raised health care taxes by hundreds of millions of dollars—it's clear they don't care about making health care more affordable for Minnesotans.
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MUST WATCH: Leader
@Kdaudt
after House Democrats refused to join Republicans in passing the bipartisan bill to fix PPP taxation, which passed the Senate 55-12.
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SIOUX FALLS SAINTS!? The Star Tribune reported yesterday that thanks to Gov. Walz's restrictions, the St. Paul Saints will start their season July 3 with Sioux Falls as their temporary home.
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#mngop
Hate has no place in our schools, and certainly has no place in our academic standards.
We cannot allow or tolerate academic standards that read as if they were written by the Democratic-Socialists of America.
Read our letter to Governor Walz below.
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As part of his 'One Expensive Minnesota' budget,
@GovTimWalz
has proposed a 70% gas tax increase that would vault Minnesota to the 4th highest rate in the country. We're here to tell him "The Price is Wrong."
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First order of business of the 2021 Special Session — Leader
@KDaudt
moving to end the Governor’s emergency powers.
Case rates are plummeting. Hospitalizations are at all-time low. It’s time to end the peacetime emergency.
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Minnesota families are still feeling the effects of inflation, and Minnesota Democrats made it worse with expensive tax hikes, new fees, and energy mandates that drive up electric bills.
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Last year the DFL passed more than 65 new mandates on schools, costing them millions. The outcome? Fewer than 50% of Minnesota students are reading at grade level. We should focus on making sure students can read instead of crushing schools under dozens of new unfunded mandates.
Sen. Steve Cwodzinki (DFL-Eden Prairie) says he’s in awe of MDE catching problems at Feeding Our Future during such an uncertain pandemic time. “Throughout all that, the system worked.”
House Democrats secretly and swiftly approved a $730 million luxury office building for themselves.
And experts say it “wouldn’t be surprising” if the costs continued to climb.
This project is a gross waste of taxpayer dollars—politicians don’t need a palace.
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For the cost of the irresponsible and unaffordable State Office Building remodel, we could fund the statewide EMS emergency stopgap ask SIX TIMES. We should be prioritizing the lives and wellbeing of those who need EMS services over a massive palace for politicians.
Republicans are calling for the
@MNMSBA
to withdraw from the
@NSBAPublicEd
after they sent a deceitful & defamatory letter to the US AG calling for investigations into the involvement of concerned parents at school board meetings.
#mnleg
Full letter:
OUTRAGEOUS: Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan took to social media over the Independence Day weekend to smear Mount Rushmore as a "symbol of white supremacy."
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#mngop
Fact: The House voted 126-0 to put this important exclusion back in the bill.
Fact: The DFL stripped this language out in conference committee.
This must be fixed before the bill is passed into law.
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