Good morning, and welcome to Tuesday.

There's still no deal at the state Capitol on front line worker bonuses or unemployment insurance after Gov. Tim Walz hosted another negotiation session Monday with House and Senate leaders. MPR’s Tim Pugmire reports DFL House Speaker Melissa Hortman made a new offer that was quickly rejected by Senate Republicans. The House offer includes $1 billion for frontline worker bonuses and $1.8 billion to replenish the unemployment trust fund. Hortman said the proposal would provide bonuses of up to $1,500 to 667,000 workers. “I don’t know how $700 million in their direction could be viewed as anything other than a good faith offer to move towards  compromise,” Hortman said. “What’s disappointing is that Senate Republicans think they deserve a gold star for honoring an agreement that they made to frontline workers last June.” Republican Senate Majority Leader Jeremy Miller was not impressed. “I would say that it was a counterproductive counter offer that moved us a few steps backwards and still results in a tax increase for businesses across the state of Minnesota,” Miller said. He wants the House to take up the issues separately. It's unclear when the talks will resume.

Minnesota will make a $25 million investment in ALS research and caregiver support under a bill headed to Gov. Walz for his promised signature.  MPR’s Brian Bakst reports the state Senate gave its unanimous final approval Monday to a bill championed by Iron Range Sen. David Tomassoni, an independent. He was diagnosed with the disease last year and it has taken a swift toll. Fellow Senator Tom Bakk read from a letter written by Tomassoni before the vote. “This bill has the potential to be the beginning of eradication of an insidious disease, not for me, but for future generations,” Tomassoni wrote. “That is something we can all be proud of.” The bill establishes a $20 million grant program to prop up qualifying research into ALS detection, treatment and assistive technology. The rest would be used to help families in their care of loved ones with the disease.

Gov. Walz plans to deliver his State of the State address on Sunday, April 24 at 6 p.m. And he will do it in the Minnesota House chamber. His last two State of the State speeches were remote addresses because of COVID-19.

DFL State Rep. Jennifer Schultz of Duluth officially launched a bid for Congress Monday with rallies on the Iron Range and in Duluth.MPR’s Dan Kraker reports she delivered a fiery speech asserting she’s a better candidate to represent Minnesota’s vast 8th district than Republican incumbent Pete Stauber. Schultz, a four-term state representative and economics professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, said she had no designs on a run for Congress when she announced earlier she would not seek another term at the Legislature. But she said she reconsidered after fielding calls from what she said were “hundreds” of people around the state—including former U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan, the last Democrat to win the 8th— as well as farmers and labor representatives around the district, who she said “begged” her to run. “I wanted you to have a choice. I really did. Because when we invest in our people, we all do better," Schultz said in front of dozens of boisterous supporters inside Duluth City Hall. The Republican National Committee reacted with a statement critical of Schultz. “Forced to endure skyrocketing inflation, record-high gas prices, and anti-mining policies that kill Iron Range jobs, voters in Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District aren’t interested in sending Jennifer Schultz to Washington to be another rubber stamp for Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden,” spokesperson Preya Samsundar said.

Walker Orenstein at MinnPost has an intriguing look at what the Republican candidates for that special election in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District have been saying as they talk to local GOP conventions.  Their message is heavy on high gas prices and how they would bring them down. They also don’t want teachers talking about race in schools. Some are talking a lot about their experience in elected office while others are stressing the fact that they have none. And there’s not much talk about former President Trump, although one candidate was booed off the stage for suggesting Trump face a trial on charges of insurrection.

The Associated Press reportsa federal judge on Monday asserted it is “more likely than not” that former President Donald Trump committed crimes in his attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election, ruling to order the release of more than 100 emails from Trump adviser John Eastman to the committee investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge David Carter marked a major legal win for the House panel as it looks to correspondence from Eastman, the lawyer who was consulting with Trump as he attempted to overturn the presidential election. And CBS and the Washington Post report this morning that internal White House records turned over to the House committee from the day of the attack on the Capitol show a seven hour and 37 minute gap in Trump’s phone logs.