Dayton administration officials say with what the legislature did on spending and tax cuts during the last session, there’s very little wiggle room in the state budget if Congress and the president make big changes in federal subsidies. Minnesota Management and Budget Commissioner Myron Frans says, “We had $1.65 billion when we began this session in February and now we’re down to 163 million. That’s pretty close.” Republicans insisted on $600 million in tax cuts and Frans reiterates the governor is concerned about reductions that large. Representative Jim Knoblach from Saint Cloud responds if the governor didn’t like the tax cuts, he should have vetoed them. Knoblach adds Dayton “was proposing to spend all that money as opposed to cutting taxes with it, so we would have had about the same situation.”
More in this interview with Knoblach: