Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.: Democrats in the state are showing how to get a progressive agenda done.
and, at the insistence of Republicans, a $300 million emergency infusion of money to nursing homes.” The mix of tax cuts and increases, by the way, will make the state’s revenue system more progressive.
“I thought this would be a once-in-a-generation opportunity, and it should be viewed that way,” Walz told me. “And I've always said you don't win elections to bank political capital. You win elections to burn the capital to improve lives.” Because Democrats already held the House, many of their ideas had been worked through over the previous four years. Hortman and new Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic worked closely to make sure any differences between the two chambers’ bills were ironed out in advance.
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