Short-term fixes end budget stalemate

Budget deal reached
House Speaker Kurt Zellers Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch, and Gov. Mark Dayton announce a budget deal at the Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, July 14, 2011. The two sides have a "framework agreement" in place, but the final details still need to be determined.
MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson

DFL Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders are moving forward on a budget framework that relies heavily on one-time money and pushes a big part of the budget problem into the future.

Speaker of the House Kurt Zellers and political analysts Maureen Shaver and Todd Rapp join Midday to talk about the deal and what's next.

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