In the place of committee meetings, lawmakers are meeting in working groups to go over the budget. With the exception of a taxes bill working group, the date and time of these meetings have not been made public, despite Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy, DFL-St. Paul, telling reporters late Monday night that the sessions “should be public.”

Hortman said now that this week has been ruled out for a special session, the next deadline might be to finish before June 1, when layoff notices would have to go out to state workers warning of a possible partial government shutdown.

Lawmakers are meeting in private to craft the budget bills they failed to pass in session. No special session has been scheduled yet.

At the Minnesota Capitol, there have not been many signs of progress in state budget negotiations, but there has been plenty of pushback.

One piece of legislation that was left on the Capitol floor at the end of the session was a bill that would create an Office of Inspector General to investigate fraud. The new position was created in response to recent highly publicized incidents of fraud in the state of Minnesota.

Leaders in the Church urge lawmakers to prevent GOP pushes to roll back MinnesotaCare coverage for undocumented immigrants.

Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota legislative leaders have met for more than 13 hours over several sessions on Sunday and Monday, but still, no substantial progress on the state budget has been reported.