05/18/2026
Now that it's over...
Here's my brief recap on this Legislative Session:
Minnesotans elected a tied House, and I worked every day - even when it was frustrating - to bring home wins for our district and our state. We passed bills to save HCMC and our hospitals, to fight and prevent fraud, and to protect consumers.
We passed funding for food shelves and regional food banks, added capacity for SNAP, and funding for projects to restore, enhance, and protect habitat for fish, game, and wildlife across the state.
We are updating our severely out of date county IT systems and supporting our schools with a ballot question for a constitutional amendment to increase the funding coming in from our school land trusts.
Locally, I protected and maintained the C**n Rapids Dam, a statewide asset saving our northern lakes and waters including our fishing and recreational industry from invasive carp.
For our kids, I passed anonymous threat reporting systems required for schools, which will save lives.
For homeowners, I was able to pass my property tax relief bill which will increase the Homestead Credit.
And for our most vulnerable I passed a bill that changes the financing requirements for affordable supportive housing in a way that will allow more of this necessary housing to be built each year.
Even though we were able to defy the odds and pass some important bipartisan solutions, it’s important that you know what we weren’t able to do. My colleagues across the aisle took every chance they had to stand with corporations against proposals that would lower costs.
We fought to make our economy fairer for everyday people - banning private equity from owning more than 30 homes, having health insurance companies cover the care you need to survive, taxing social media companies and the ultra-wealthy so we can lower regressive property taxes, and banning exploitative AI price-setting.
The House GOP stood in the way and made it clear they didn’t want to work on these issues at all. With one more vote, we could have made life better for Minnesotans.
