State budget deal slowly coming together as transportation bill heads to Senate

The Minnesota Legislature is nearly a third of the way toward sending all budget bills to the desk of Governor Tim Walz after passing a transportation funding bill.

The House author of the bill, Rep. Frank Hornstein, DFL-Minneapolis, said there is an urgency to get the bill to the governor by Thursday so highway construction contractors know whether to start shutting nearly 200 projects down around the state.