Christopher Vondracek

Demand for sugar, a $3.1 billion industry for Minnesota, is down, and farmers see a direct connection with the MAHA movement.

As Congress voted down more proposals to fund the government, President Donald Trump’s statement that he will make more job cuts has added to the unease. Minnesota is home to more than 30,000 federal workers.

The recent federal spending bill took away billions in flexible spending that President Donald Trump’s first administration used to offset farmers’ hardships from tariffs.

Employers from Mayo Clinic to University of Minnesota, UnitedHealth and Target use the program to hire highly skilled workers.

The Minnesota-based health insurer has spent nearly $8 million in 2025 to lobby Congress and the Trump administration.

The upending of global trade has resurfaced haunting memories of the 1980s farm crisis.

The transition between the Biden and Trump administrations has upended the H-2A program and left some farms in limbo.

Democrats debated their party’s response to the Trump administration with the cameras watching.

The Minnesota Democrat spent Wednesday night in a Washington hospital.

A spokeswoman said Smith was back in the office on Thursday afternoon. An overnight hospitalization prevented her from voting against a package of Republican spending cuts that passed narrowly.