Minnesota’s Republican congressional delegation all voted to approve the U.S. House’s budget proposal Tuesday night, a vote some state Republican legislators attempted to inform when they urged their federal colleagues to consider the expected harm to Minnesota from Medicaid cuts.

Minnesota quickly went on the radar of newly sworn in U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi after state leaders vowed to buck President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender individuals from participating in girls and women’s sports.

At the helm in the Minnesota House, Republicans are re-airing their grievances with policies passed under full DFL control, though it's unclear that their proposed changes can make it out of the House.

House Republicans say there’s been more than half a billion dollars of known fraud in Minnesota since 2018, a figure that includes more than $250 million in pandemic-era federal meal aid the state lost to an alleged scheme that federal prosecutors say centered around the nonprofit Feeding Our Future.

The Republican bills include a few aimed at more transparency in the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission, like a mandatory public broadcast of their meetings and a searchable database so Minnesotans can see what's happening with sentences for prisoners.

Senator Smith announced Thursday that she would not run for re-election after just one full term in the chamber, scrambling the plans of several