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Monday's high temperatures will range from 20s in northwestern and west-central Minnesota to lower 40s in the Twin Cities metro area and southeastern Minnesota. Parts of northern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin could see occasional light snow showers or flurries on Monday. Get the latest on Updraft.

🎧Coming up at 9 a.m. Monday, MPR News host Angela Davis speaks with local tech experts about why giant companies are laying off so many workers, and what’s being done to address the gap between open tech jobs and a lack of skilled workers in our state.
 
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Legislature sets out to build a budget — a big one

It’s officially budget bill season in the Minnesota Legislature.

Category-by-category spending packages will roll out this week. The plans all have to fit within limits agreed to by Gov. Tim Walz and DFL legislative leaders. Eventually, they’ll make up a two-year state budget totaling more than $70 billion.

“What Minnesotans wanted was a budget that supported education, a budget that supported working men and women of Minnesota,” said Assistant Senate Majority Leader Nick Frentz, DFL-North Mankato, adding that the goal is to pass one that “every Minnesotan north, south, east and west, old and young will be proud of.”

Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson, R-East Grand Forks, described the in-the-works budget as a “runaway train of spending in Minnesota that Minnesota taxpayers will be paying for years and years to come.”

The plan allows a budget that reaches nearly $72 billion over two years — compared with about $52 billion now. But $10 billion or more of the new figure is considered one time, meaning the money isn’t establishing or feeding a permanent program.

 
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