The omnibus education finance bill has graduated from the House Floor.

In the next few weeks, summer unemployment insurance for hourly and temporary school workers will kick in.

With five days to go in the 2025 session, three of four legislative leaders announced a budget agreement Thursday that would sunset unemployment insurance for hourly school employees and eliminate MinnesotaCare eligibility for adult undocumented immigrants.

A list of more than 50 organizations and $100 million. Those are differences that jump out from the House and Senate versions of the omnibus workforce, labor, and economic development finance and policy bill.

The complicated process of crafting a budget to fund state departments and agencies in the 2026-27 biennium had its unofficial kick off in November 2024 when the state’s economic forecast was released.

Lawmakers have until three weeks from Monday to agree on how to spend $66 billion over the next two years.

Gov. Tim Walz may have been seeking a job in Washington, D.C., during last year’s election, but he seems happy to have landed back in the position he’s held for more than six years.

The House Education Finance Committee must receive a failing grade for not getting its work done on time. However, because the assignment is not yet finished a final mark could still be much higher.

The Minnesota Legislature has a May 19 deadline to write a budget that will fund the state government over the next two years.

No matter what the final details of Minnesota's next state budget look like, there will most certainly be spending cuts.

Total net General Fund expenditures in the 2026-27 biennium will not exceed a hair less than $66.62 billion. That is the budget resolution approved Tuesday by the House Ways and Means Committee.

Going after fraudulent behavior through withholding payments and added whistleblower protection are key aspects of the omnibus state government policy bill.