Walz delivered his address as a divided Legislature works to pass the next two-year state budget with a significantly smaller surplus than in past years, and a multibillion-dollar deficit expected

Gov. Tim Walz pledged Wednesday night to do everything in his power to protect Minnesotans from the chaos that he said President Donald Trump has unleashed on the country and the world.Delivering his annual State of the State speech to a joint session of the Legislature,

The governor used a roughly 23-minute State of the State speech to urge lawmakers to work together while highlighting policies passed under DFL control and skewering the Trump administration.