As the special session approaches, crooked politicians hope to craft a corrupt omnibus bonding (debt) bill to finance pet projects for lobbyists and special interests on the taxpayer’s behalf. Alongside pushing the 2nd largest state budget in MN history, the Uniparty is looking to give our state $700 Million in new debt.

Bonding bills authorize the state to take on debt since crooked politicians ALWAYS want more money to waste. These bills require the support of 60% or more in both the state House and Senate. With the GOP Speakership, 67-67 tie in the House, and the one member Democrat majority in the Senate, Republicans have the opportunity to flex their power and block any debt bill because their votes would be needed for the legislation to pass.

Instead of taking this opportunity to defeat the plan head-on, or at the very least get concessions such as repealing radical Democrat trifecta-era policies, the GOP is working with Democrats to pass the debt bill! Action 4 Liberty has previously reported on pay-to-play Sen. Sandy Pappas (SD65) pushing for a $1.3 Billion debt plan and RINO Senator Karin Housely (SD33) also showing interest in the massive debt plan. The plan has obviously been cut, thanks only to the March 6th state budget forecast setting a $700 Million maximum debt capacity. Leave it to the corrupt Uniparty to give our state as much debt as the forecast says can happen, remember, they don’t have to put our state in debt at all. 

Sources at the Capitol for say the bonding bill will only contain funding for specific projects within the twin cities and will give money to the MN Dept. of Transportation to divvy out on projects! The state government wants to take on debt to give to one of its government agencies?!? Plus the legislature would also be handing off major appropriation responsibility over to MNDOT that they should be doing themselves if they're going to do it at all. Sources also tell A4L that House Capital Investment co-chair RINO Rep. Mary Franson (12B) agreed to package because it gives $20M to the Alexandria Technical & Community College in her district, showing that Republicans will ditch conservative values as soon as it benefits them politically. The final bill is not publicly available as of this article's publishing, it can be accessed here once it is published.

The plan to give our state $700 Million in new debt is not just being talked about in the Senate, RINO House Speaker Lisa Demuth appears to also be on board! In a 6/4/25 press conference, Demuth said the discussions are ongoing to pass the bill and was supportive of the bill moving forward! While Democrats have steamrolled massive spending and debt for years, Demuth is maintaining the status quo and doing NOTHING to fight for conservative interests.

To make matters worse, it is also reported that Senate Republicans have agreed to put up votes for the bonding bill (among other things). This means RINO Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson (SD1) or another Senate GOP leader has agreed with Democrats on a bonding bill, perhaps without the blessing of the GOP caucus. See below:

As mentioned previously, Republicans have enough votes in both chambers to block this bill from passing since it requires 60% support. If Republicans draw a hard line in the sand for fiscal responsibility, our state will be much better off. Bonding bills are not required to fund the state government and are simply used as an omnibus dumpster-fire of projects that incumbents can use to campaign on. The Uniparty has no concept of taking ideas one at a time and debating it on its own, singular merits. 

Conservative legislators should be doing all they can to fight a debt-ridden bonding bill, not cheering it on! If they hold firm, they can block big government debt and make our state more fiscally sound. RINOs who choose to vote for more debt will be co-signing hundreds of millions in wasteful spending in return for some project. Action 4 Liberty will keep Patriots up to date on the status of this and where it ultimately lands.