Gov. Walz, Democrats and advocates celebrate $72 billion budget

Along with DFL legislative leaders and his commissioners, Gov. Tim Walz threw a bill-signing party Wednesday on the Capitol steps in front of hundreds of supporters, with a pep band at his side and a drone camera overhead recording the occasion.

"Time and time again they said, 'It's not hard to vote your conscience,'" Walz said as he turned back to look at the lawmakers lining the steps behind him.

He boasted about the accomplishments in the nearly $72 billion budget, calling a new child tax credit a globe-leading effort to reduce childhood poverty. Referring to the $17.5 billion surplus, he said, "We're going to put it behind our teachers so we can educate our children."

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