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Our state is being destroyed by radical left Democrats and weak RINOs are allowing it to happen. Despite the GOP holding an equal number of Representative seats in the state House as the Dems, the GOP has full control over zero major policy or appropriation omnibus bills and the Dems has full control over 8 of the 21 bills!

A full list of the state Senate versions of the 21 omnibus bills can be found here. Budget bills will cover 2026-2027 spending.

While it would be expected that Democrats get control of state Senate authorship for the omnibus spending/policy bills since they hold a majority in that body, it is strange that they additionally have that power in the state House for over a third of the omnibus bills when the House majority is shared by Republicans!

Republican Reps in the House are co-equal to the Democrats but are treated like they are powerless! GOP legislators in a shared majority should have equal access to legislation control (especially with an elected Speaker from your party). Below you will see the eight omnibus bills with no GOP co-author:

HF2440/SF1832: Jobs & Economic Development Policy

HF2443/SF2216: Commerce Policy

HF2433/SF2255: K-12 Education Appropriations

HF1615/SF2370: Cannabis Policy

HF2441/SF2373: Labor Policy and Appropriations

HF2442/SF2393: Energy, Util., Environ., Climate Policy and Appropriations

HF2431/SF2483: Higher Education Policy and Appropriations

HF2435/SF2669: Health & Human Services Policy and Appropriations

HF2595/SF3096: Election Judge Policy

Unfortunately, having a Republican on a policy or appropriations omnibus bill does necessarily not fix the issue either! A bad bill is a bad bill regardless of potential Republican authorship. As we’ve previously reported, RINO Jim Nash (48A) is a co-author for the State and Local Govt. Finance & Policy omnibus bill that increases ANTIFA Keith Ellison’s budget and adds spending for electric vehicle charging stations which will eat into our state’s energy grid and cause blackouts. Future reporting will discuss the other omnibus bills in greater detail.

Simply being an author on these bills is not enough. Republicans need to grow a spine and use their shared House majority as leverage. They must gut all wasteful spending, corruption, or woke policies from these bills and shrink the budgets to their most essential services. The MNGOP platform calls for the elimination of omnibus spending bills and Republicans must lead on that issue. Legislation cannot pass without Republican support yet they are allowing Democrats to have total control of over a third of the omnibus legislation on the docket.

Of the 21 omnibus bills, only ONE has more GOP authors than Democrats. HF2027/SF2511 is the omnibus Liquor Policy bill which has two GOP House authors [Tim O’Driscoll (13B) & Perryman (16A)] and one Democrat Senator [Matt Klein (SD53)]. This bill is extremely noncontroversial and proves how weak the RINOs are! The only bill where they have any real power is for a liquor bill tweaking policy and where people can drink alcohol! 

GOP House Reps must assert themselves and refuse the Democrat omnibus budget/policy plans. Instead the GOP should push conservative balanced budgets and policy bills that repeals anti-liberty laws. A4L has continually demanded GOP legislators push for pre-covid spending levels. 

Weak RINOs who refuse to be hardline negotiators are selling out Patriots and our freedom, which makes them just as bad as Democrats. A phony friend is no friend at all. A4L will continue to expose the uniparty corruption in Minnesota and lead the fight for grassroots conservatives!