Minnesota Senate
PRESS RELEASE
Senator Lindsey Port
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Nov. 25, 2025
Contact: Eden Teller | eden.teller@mnsenate.gov | 612-208-6309
Senator Port Condemns Trump Administration’s ‘Depraved’ Cuts to Minnesota Supportive Housing Funding
ST. PAUL, Minn. — This month, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development announced new stipulations for supportive housing grant funding that disqualify programs who use proven “Housing First” strategies or incorporate tenets of harm reduction, like clean needle exchange programs for people dealing with substance use disorders. A press release from 185 Minnesota supportive housing organizations called the changes “[the] most devastating housing cuts in modern US history” and warned that the new rules will halve Minnesota’s funds for permanent supportive housing and could double the state’s rate of chronic homelessness.
Minnesota Senate Housing and Homelessness Prevention Chair Senator Lindsey Port (DFL-Burnsville) releases the following statement:
“The changes to these Housing and Urban Development grant requirements are a depraved new low — one that will knock down thousands of Minnesotans who are beginning to climb out of homelessness. Housing first and harm reduction are proven methods of helping people overcome some of the most difficult challenges a human can face; yet with a stroke of a pen, hundreds of programs that provide these services are cut off from the funds that make their work possible. The cost of pulling housing first providers in favor of transitory beds will be in human lives. I will say it again: This will kill people. The people who lose stable housing because of this administration’s war on unhoused people and low-income people are as human as you and I but treated like second-class citizens. I will do everything I can at the state level to support these essential housing programs, but the loss of these funds will be devastating no matter what we do.”
More than 3,600 Minnesotans live in supportive housing, and last year Minnesota organizations received around $48 million in federal funding from Continuum of Care grants. The new HUD requirements also bar applicants in cities or states that do not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement or who acknowledge the existence of transgender people.
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Minnesota Legislature
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
November 20, 2025
Contact:
Leader Murphy: Mike Mullen | 612-280-7717 | mike.mullen@mnsenate.gov
Leader Stephenson: Ted Modrich | 612-803-1877 |ted.modrich@house.mn.gov
DFL Leaders Condemn Trump’s Threat to Execute Members of Congress
DULUTH, Minn. — On Thursday, Donald Trump published a series of posts on Truth Social stating that Democratic members of Congress should be prosecuted and executed for sedition, following their participation in a video earlier this week.
“Only months ago, our state was the site of a political terrorist attack on the Hortman and Hoffman families, an attack that threatened many Democratic members of the Legislature,” said Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy. “Donald Trump’s threat to Democratic members of Congress is horrific and puts lives in danger. Patriotic members of Congress who served our nation urged Americans to resist illegal orders from this president, and Donald Trump just proved again why they must. Republicans in Minnesota, from Congress to the Capitol need to join us in condemning this violent rhetoric. It has no place in our democracy.”
"Donald Trump has once again fanned the flames of political violence,” said DFL House Leader Zack Stephenson. “His rhetoric puts lives in danger. As someone who is the leader of this caucus only because Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed in an act of political violence, Donald Trump's threats are beyond the pale. They are abhorrent. We cannot and should not tolerate language that invites violence. It is incumbent on leadership from all parties to reject his comments in the strongest possible terms. Anyone who will not condemn these comments is not fit for public office.”
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We are sharing a press release from Minnesota Senator Erin Maye Quade regarding her warning against Federal artificial intelligence regulatory preemption. If you agree with her, you may send a letter of support to her State Senate mailing address.
Minnesota Senate
PRESS RELEASE
Senator Erin Maye Quade
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Nov. 20, 2025
Contact: Eden Teller | eden.teller@mnsenate.gov | 612-208-6309
Senator Maye Quade Warns Against Federal AI Regulatory Preemption
ST. PAUL, Minn. — This week, multiple stories broke on federal action to impede states’ rights to regulate artificial intelligence. On Tuesday, Nov. 18, reporting revealed that federal lawmakers continue to push legislation that would prevent states from regulating artificial intelligence for any reason, including the safety of their residents. After failed attempts to add a preemption to the federal budget earlier this year, members of Congress are pushing for an AI preemption to be included in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). On Thursday, Nov. 20, news outlets reported that the administration has drafted an executive order that would challenge states' ability to regulate AI.
Senator Erin Maye Quade (DFL-Apple Valley), who has introduced multiple bills to regulate artificial intelligence, including legislation to require that companies turn off consumer access to AI nudification technology (SF 1119) in order to protect Minnesotans from non-consensual, AI-generated pornographic images, and was chief author of the bill that bans realistic deepfakes meant to harm candidates and influence voters prior to elections, releases the following statement:
“The moment AI image and video generation became widely available to the public, people have abused it to create misinformation, nonconsensual pornographic imagery of adults, and child sexual abuse material. Companies’ haphazard, ‘wild west’ rollout of this technology shows that they do not care about the harm AI creates when misused. Advocates and elected officials across the political spectrum have sounded the alarm and introduced bipartisan legislation in state houses across the country designed to protect our constituents and harness AI’s potential when used to help, not harm. In the absence of federal action to protect all Americans, states have the right to legislate and regulate to protect our residents. I urge Congress to pass comprehensive, balanced legislation to do just that; and if not, to let state legislators do our part to keep Minnesotans safe from damaging applications of AI.”
Within six months in 2025, two Minnesota educators were charged with using AI technology to generate sexual abuse images of children. In February, the US Justice Department charged a Minnesotan former school district employee with using AI technology to generate sexual abuse images of children in his care, as well as possession and receipt of child pornography; and in August, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported that a Brooklyn Park school employee had been arrested and charged with allegedly recording images of a 13-year-old girl in his classroom and superimposing her face onto a computer-generated female body that was nude or in lingerie.
Senator Maye Quade first presented SF1119 in the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee on Feb. 19 and held a press conference alongside advocates on Feb. 24.