ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, D-Brooklyn Park, called Governor Tim Walz’ State of the State address speech “pro-worker, pro-family and pro-child.? She said that Democrats are united behind the Democratic governor’s agenda. Other legislative Democrats also bubbled in the interviews after the address, for the moment, down-playing their preference for tax credits on child care and housing and aid to lower-income Minnesotans – rather than the governor’s Walz Checks rebate.

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