Minnesota is under the control of radical leftists and the RINOs who enable them. While the GOP Establishment would want you to believe that simply electing Republicans will solve all issues, time after time we see RINO politicians backstab the conservative base.

In this case, RINO Jim Nash (48A) is working with Democrats to increase ANTIFA Keith Ellison’s Attorney General office budget! This comes as Ellison wastes tax dollars on frivolous lawsuits for men in women's sports and anti-2nd Amendment cases (where the U.S. Supreme Court just refused to hear Ellison's appeal).

Omnibus spending bills will be the large focus as the state legislature wraps up for the year. The list of spending/policy omnibus bills can be found here. Minnesota passes two year budget bills in odd numbered years. The State Govt. Policy and Finance omnibus spending bill is where funding for the Attorney General’s office is located.

HF2783 is this year’s State Govt. funding bill and it is co-authored by RINO Jim Nash and radical leftist Democrat Ginny Klevorn. This bill increases funding for Ellison’s office to $46,919,000 for 2026 and $47,398,000 for 2027!

In 2023, the State Govt. spending bill only had Democrat authors and passed along party lines. In the 2023 bill (HF1830), the 2025 budget for Keith Ellison is $43,825,000. This means an over $3M increase for next year and over $3.5M increase for the year after compared to what Ellison got for 2025!

The “party of limited government” is going to give even more money to ANTIFA Keith Ellison rather than fighting against Ellison! In total, this bill costs $1.35B which is a $45M increase over February’s forecast base. Nash clearly lacks negotiation skills, or worse, that he is truly in line with the Democrats.

On April 10th, this bill was passed UNANIMOUSLY out of the House Govt. Finance and Policy Committee [GOP Reps: Nash (48A), Davis (6A), Anderson (12A), Joy (4B), Koznick (57A), Quam (24A), and Sexton (19B)] and be referred to the House Ways and Means Committee (membership found here). In a bad sign for transparency, the House has not published the Govt. Finance and Policy Committee’s minutes and the bill webpage still lists that it sits in that committee rather than Ways and Means. As of this article’s publishing date, the Ways and Means Committee has not taken this bill up yet and it is not even in their public listing docket.

The Senate version of this bill (SF3045) authored only by Democrat Tou Xiong (SD44) and the funding numbers for the AG office is the same in each version. 

This bill is in violation of the MNGOP Platform where it states its support for "Ending the use of omnibus spending bills" (page 2). To make matters worse, this spending bill costs more than the 2025 State Govt. funding budget pushed by Socialist Tim Walz!

Jim Nash, Lisa Demuth, and any other RINO planning on voting for this garbage are phonies who can never be called conservatives. In 2023, Nash and Demuth criticized the 2023 Democrat State Govt. bill. Nash quoted Oscar Wilde and said “The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy”. But now, Jim Nash is leading the charge on behalf of the expanding bureaucracy!

RINOs use performative measures to pretend to be conservatives but at the end of the day, they are the exact same as Democrats. The WWE style of politics has become known to the grassroots. The curtain has been pulled and Patriots can see the uniparty in action.

In addition, this budget bill adds new spending for government built electric vehicle stations. These will eat into the state’s energy grid and cause blackouts. This will enable Walz’ tyrannical 2040 carbon mandate and the Green New Deal climate hoax. See portion of bill below:

While this bill also adds new language that allows government officials to report fraud stop payments to groups if fraud is found, fraudsters already do not follow the law and corrupt government officials will continue to look the other way. Accountability and cutting massive government spending is the only way to eliminate fraud. The hand-off of a massive liberal budget for a few noncontroversial fraud laws shows how weak of negotiators RINOs are. Nash has clearly not read 'The Art of the Deal'.

Republicans should pivot and opt for pre-covid spending levels as A4L has continually suggested. Instead, spineless GOP legislators are working to push a budget plan that expands the evil big government, totals slightly over $66.6B, would be the second largest budget in MN history, and would eat into your surplus dollars. As we’ve previously reported, the proposed GOP budget spends more tax dollars than the government is anticipating to take in which means it is NOT a balanced budget and will eat into the deserved surplus money for taxpayers, no matter how much unhinged Walter Hudson defends it.

Action 4 Liberty will continue to expose the corrupt uniparty of Minnesota that seeks to expand government, spend more of your money, and strip us of our God-given liberties. A4L will always stand as a blockade for the Grassroots against the Establishment. While RINOs push spending bills that benefit radical leftists like Keith Ellison, we will be here to set the record straight.