Topic: Minnesota Budget

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Before her assassination, Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman cast a controversial vote to cut state funding for undocumented immigrants' healthcare. This decision was part of a budget compromise to secure Republican votes, which reportedly angered members of her own DFL caucus. Speculation has arisen that this specific vote may have been the catalyst for the politically motivated attack by the suspect, Vance Luther Bolter.