Gov't Shutdown Could Half Federal Payments To Farmers
The USDA last week assured farmers that direct payments would keep going out during the first week of the shutdown.
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The USDA last week assured farmers that direct payments would keep going out during the first week of the shutdown.
Tony Evers has scheduled a noon news conference in Madison to announce his latest round of appointments.
The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday provided sample letters that furloughed workers can send to their landlords in case they can't make their rent payments.
Dayton will sit for Paul Oxborough, of Excelsior. Dayton chose Oxborough after consulting with his sons, who are familiar with his work.
Democratic lawmakers are preparing to unveil their first 10 bills soon after they take control of the Minnesota House next month.
President Trump said on Christmas Eve that a "complete" wall on the southern border will be built with "Shutdown money plus funds already in hand."
President Trump said Defense Secretary James Mattis will leave his job sooner than had been planned last week, and he is appointing Deputy Secretary Patrick Shanahan as acting secretary of defense. In a tweet Sunday, Mr. Trump said Shanahan would step into the new role on Jan. 1.
Minnesota Republican State Senator David Osmek of Mound wants to make penalties for crashes caused by distracted driving equal to drunk driving. The law would only apply in cases involving injuries or death.
The federal government wasn't the only thing on the verge of shutting down Friday afternoon. Stock markets slumped, led down by big losses for technology companies and retailers, as investors continued to fret about the health of the global economy.
President Trump signed the criminal justice reform bill he and son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner lobbied for, marking a significant bipartisan achievement in a time when successful bipartisan legislation on major issues is rare.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery Friday to remove two cancerous nodules from her lung. A spokesperson for the Supreme Court said that there was "no evidence of remaining disease" and no evidence of disease "elsewhere in the body" after the surgery.
The federal government will partially shut down Friday at midnight if the House and Senate don't pass a spending bill.
"Think about it. It the government totally shut down, the military would get laid off, the prisons would open up, Grandma wouldn't get her Social Security check," said Hamline University Professor David Schultz.
Minnesota's next governor named three new commissioners to his cabinet today. And as WCCO's Pat Kessler shows us, Governor-elect Tim Walz had a reason behind naming them all together.
