The Daily Digest: Supplemental budget day

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In Minnesota

When Gov. Mark Dayton’s supplemental budget is released on Tuesday, it will include $500,000 for a special health care finance task force to evaluate the future of the state’s new health insurance website. (MPR News)

Schools and colleges are the biggest winners of the supplemental budget request. (Star Tribune)

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Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, is telling backers of a Major League Soccer franchise not to ask the Legislature for public money for a new stadium. (MPR News)

Republicans and Democrats at the State Capitol appear to be headed for a crash on transportation funding. (MPR News)

Days after saying they want to cut taxes and still spend money on key priorities, a key Republican in the Minnesota House is floating a proposal to end a popular health care program for Minnesota's working poor. (MPR News)

Listen to former Gov. Tim Pawlenty's talk about the future of the Republican Party. (MPR News)

Millennials may be the punchline to jokes by old fogeys such as your Digest writer, but they're also getting making a mark on politics in Minnesota. (MPR News)

National Politics

House Republicans will unveil a proposed budget for 2016 that partly privatizes Medicare, turns Medicaid into block grants to the states, repeals the Affordable Care Act and reaches balance in 10 years, challenging Republicans in Congress to make good on their promises to deeply cut federal spending. (New York Times)

In a rare display of bipartisanship, House leaders are actively pursuing a deal to permanently change the way Medicare pays doctors and to extend a children’s health program for two years. (Politico)

Pointing to increased high school graduation rates, President Barack Obama said he's prepared to fight with Republicans for school funding and his education priorities rather than risk going backward. (AP via Pioneer Press)

A bipartisan congressional group, including Minnesota Rep. Tim Walz, is calling for an investigation into how the Department of Veterans Affairs reaches out to female veterans. (Star Tribune)