
The special session at the capitol it over...or is it?
The Minnesota legislature passed budget bills on-time to keep the state from a shutdown, but Senate Republicans are extending the special session into next week to confirm Walz administration commissioners.
Republicans defended the indefinite extension as "oversight" but DFLers have pushed back strongly.
Senator Susan Kent in a statement said the GOP is using the confirmations as "political pawns to express frustration with the administration." Walz added in a statement said the GOP "put off the work" for two years to do it in "overtime" and called for them to forgo "the thousands of taxpayer dollars they take each day in per diem."
First on the potential chopping block are the heads of the IRRRB and the Minnesota Office of School Trust Lands.
A commissioner can be removed immediately if the senate majority votes not to confirm them.