Fresh Off VP -tab, Tim Walz is facing new political reality in MN

Gone were Camo Hats and Crisp Blue Suits of the Vice Presidential Campaign Trail.

Instead of Midwestern Dad Energy, DFL government felt Tim Walz’s Vibber more like a financial planner, using charts and figures to roll out his two-year budget for Minnesota and demonstrate the “long-term drivers” walking costs. Some of his ideas were similar to these state Republicans had beaten for years: tax reform, expenses for cuts and tackle fraud.

He thought they liked them too.

“I think there will be a big buy-in from them,” Walz said.

Walz’s budget plan and other suggestions that he has rolled out represent a shift in tone for the governor facing a new political reality following his failed national campaign. Instead of a DFL-TRIFECTA and a state that flushes with cash, he now has to try to hash out a budget with a narrowly split legislature and a deficit of several trillion dollars on the horizon.

“A new politically invisible fence is installed around him. The public is tired of fraud, Republicans wisely raising not taxes, and Minnesota has an actually balanced budget requirement, ”said former Republican government head Tim Pawlenty, who also briefly returned to the job after driving to the national office. “His political roaming area has shrunk significantly.”

Complicative cases are a bitter battle between Republicans and Democrats in the State House, where his party has been living in the first two weeks of the legislative session to prevent Republicans from taking power for now. The unprecedented situation has forced Walz to wade in, though it risks harming his relationship with Republicans.

After a Friday State Supreme Court’s ruling that Republicans could do no business without at least one Democrat present in the chamber, Walz said he expected GOP to “drop their illegal charade” and return to the negotiating table.