The DFL deficit In February 2023, Minnesota Management & Budget (MMB) forecast a state government budget surplus of $17 billion for the 2024-2025 biennium. In that “historic” session, the DFL trifecta blew…
Right on cue, the release of the February 2025 budget focus has ignited a second round of blame games. A new candidate, President Trump’s chaotic policymaking, is seemingly now in…
In February 2023, Minnesota Management & Budget (MMB) forecast a state government budget surplus of $17 billion for the 2024-2025 biennium. In that “historic” session, the DFL trifecta spent every penny of…
In the November 2024 forecast, Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) estimated a $5.1 billion budget deficit for the 2028-29 biennium. A newly released February 2025 budget forecast shows that the…
The problem Yesterday, I testified that: In February 2023, Minnesota Management & Budget forecast a state government budget surplus of $17 billion for the 2024-2025 biennium. In that “historic” session, the DFL…
Today I testified in the House Transportation Finance and Policy committee in support of HF 494, which: …prohibits the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and the MetropolitanCouncil from expending funds…
Minnesota gets a substantial amount of funding from the federal government, particularly through the Medicaid program. Under a resolution passed by U.S. House Republicans, federal funding for Medicaid could be…
Last week I wrote that, adjusted for inflation, government spending per person in Minnesota has risen 23% since 2019. From this, I concluded that “There is ample capacity for the…
The forecast state government budget deficit for the 2028-2029 budget biennium is likely to dominate policy and political debate in Minnesota for the next few years. The state is constitutionally…
Yesterday’s forecast confirmed what American Experiment has continuously warned: the Minnesota state budget is unsustainable. Unfortunately, the forces that are putting pressure on the budget are ongoing, and will likely only…
Two years ago, Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) forecast a state government budget surplus of $18 billion for the 2024-2025 biennium. In the event, not only was every penny of…
Minnesota needs to update its obsolete budget forecast schedule and replace it with one more closely aligned with their fiscal year.
Every year, the U.S. Census Bureau publishes the Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances. This is the country’s only source of state and local spending data for all…
Minnesota’s budget is a disaster waiting to happen.
Between July this year and July 2025, the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) will officially be breaking off into three state agencies. Due to a law passed in the…
How does a state go from having an $18 billion surplus to potentially facing a deficit in a space of less than a year? The answer is reckless spending. After…
After lawmakers raised Health and Human Services (HHS) spending in the 2023 session by over $6 billion, welfare is now the fastest-growing expenditure in the Minnesota state budget. Between 2024…
When it comes to welfare, Minnesota is a generous state as CAE’s newest report has outlined. This generosity is prevalent both when looking at spending as a share of the…
After a $1.5 billion deficit forecast from the Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB), Gov. Walz appears to be taking the agency’s warning seriously, proposing a budget that according to him…
As I wrote last week, last year was a big year for welfare expansion in Minnesota. Overall, lawmakers dedicated over $6 billion in new money to Health and Human Services.…
Minnesota’s welfare system underwent significant expansion last year. This post is a breakdown of all the new spending that happened last year. As American Experiment’s most recent report notes, welfare…
“Minnesota Nice” may not hold across the board, but when it comes to welfare, it’s right on the money. By any metric, Minnesota has always had a vast and generous…
According to the Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB), the state is still expecting a budget deficit. However, compared to the 2023 November forecast, the outlook is a little less gloomy.…
This week I’ve written about some loopy laws being pushed in St. Paul this session: one which would erect a costly regulatory apparatus to govern who could buy, sell, or…