White House looks to Minnesota as a model for infrastructure

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and legislative leaders met with senior White House officials to highlight a historically productive 2023 session, holding up Minnesota as a model for other states looking to enact infrastructure policies. The trip is the latest stop on a national campaign to prop up the long list of progressive proposals Gov Walz and the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL)-led Legislature passed in a five-month span.  Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic (DFL-Minneapolis) said the group talked a lot about clean energy and broadband. "You can't do precision agriculture in greater Minnesota without the broadband and Wi-Fi," she said, describing the process of applying modern technology to farming.