Under Amy Koch’s failed leadership, the Minnesota Senate acquired a significant deficit of $2.6 million that had to be addressed at the beginning of this session. So the Senate GOP immediately acted to reduce the deficit — by slashing the DFL caucus’s budget.

Republicans voted to reduce DFL staff at the Senate by more than $400,000 — meaning the DFL will have to lay off 12 to 14 people of its 43 person staff. Republicans will not reduce their staff of 73 people at all. 

This is really outrageous. The lack of accountability or even basic decency is just astounding. But I don’t know why things like this still shock me. This is the GOP’s typical method for handling budgets — first they screw it up, then they force someone else to pay. 

You can see video highlights of the committee meeting below, courtesy of The UpTake: