ST. PAUL, Minn. – In his budget message to the Legislature, Governor Tim Walz proposed paying off the state’s share of the debt on U.S. Bank Stadium 22 years early. The football stadium, for which the state borrowed $348 million, is where the Vikings play. The governor noted that electronic and paper pull-tab gambling revenues to pay on the debt are exceeding projections. If the stadium isn’t paid off, the excess gambling revenue would go into the state’s general fund.
