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ST. PAUL — Minnesota legislative leaders burned the midnight oil and were poised to release state budget targets Monday, May 17, the officials said early in the day.
After a week and a half of closed-door talks, Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, R-East Gull Lake, and House Speaker Melissa Hortman, D-Brooklyn Park, said they were “at a place of signing the dotted line” on budget targets. The targets determine how much Minnesota will spend on schools, roads and bridges, public safety and other areas of state government.
Without those numbers, the Legislature slowed to a standstill over the weekend and lawmakers braced for a special session to complete a nearly $52 billion state budget, a police reform package and a plan to erase income taxes on Paycheck Protection Program loans and some unemployment insurance funds…
