Amy Klobuchar

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As Governor, Amy Klobuchar will keep fighting to lower health care costs so families can afford to get the care they need.

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As our U.S. Senator, Amy Klobuchar has fought to lower health care costs by leading the fight for the law that finally allowed Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices, and fighting anti-competitive practices that keep affordable generics off pharmacy shelves and raise prices for prescription drugs. As Governor, she will build on that work to lower prescription drug costs by expanding state bulk purchasing of drugs and prioritizing lower-cost generics and biosimilars. Klobuchar will also bring down premiums, strengthen reinsurance to hold down premiums, support small businesses in covering their employees, and help Minnesotans without employer coverage afford insurance.

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Reduce premiums to deliver immediate cost relief and value for Minnesota families, small business owners, farmers, contractors, and others without employer coverage. Many Americans have not been able to afford their health insurance since the Trump administration let the premium tax credit expire. To limit increases in Minnesota, Klobuchar will direct the Minnesota Department of Commerce to weigh affordability as a factor in the rate review process and deny excessive hikes. She’ll also extend and strengthen Minnesota’s bipartisan reinsurance program, which for nearly a decade has helped Minnesotans who purchase their own insurance, by securing renewal of the waiver before it expires at the end of 2027.

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Amy Klobuchar led the fight against these federal cuts in the Senate and will protect access to health care as Governor, both by advocating for funding and by supporting hospitals and clinics in modernizing facilities and upgrading infrastructure. And she’ll provide support for Minnesotans who qualify for Medicaid so red tape and paperwork don’t take away their coverage, while modernizing the health systems Minnesotans rely on so applying for and keeping coverage is streamlined and seamless.

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Put primary care first. Everyone does better, and the whole system costs less, when Minnesotans have a regular primary care provider – whether that’s a doctor, registered nurse, clinician, community health worker, social worker, or pharmacist – who knows them, catches problems early, and coordinates their care. As Governor, Klobuchar will make primary care the foundation of Minnesota health care. She will continue rewarding providers for getting and keeping people healthy from the start, rather than waiting for an emergency.

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In the Senate, Amy Klobuchar led the successful fight to repeal the medical device tax that threatened thousands of Minnesota medtech jobs, and she has championed the federal research investments that fuel our hospitals and universities. She has fought recent Trump administration cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and research grants, which have put cancer trials and cures at risk. As Governor, she will partner with our world-class hospitals and research institutions to keep building the future of medicine here in Minnesota, create a statewide innovation network that turns discoveries into companies and jobs, drive medical innovation that increases competition and expands patient choice, and prepare our workforce for the health care careers of the future.

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Build on and expand Minnesota’s role in the next generation of treatment and cures, including our long support of research, the mapping of the human genome, and responsible use of technology. The Trump administration has cut NIH funding and canceled research grants, putting cancer trials and cures at risk. Klobuchar will incentivize and expand partnerships with research institutions, companies, philanthropies, and universities to develop groundbreaking cures. This means keeping world-class research, clinical trials, and the jobs that come with them here in Minnesota, with a dedicated commitment to diseases including cancer, Alzheimer’s, and historically under-emphasized women’s health research, from mammograms to menopause.

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As Governor, I’ll reduce premiums, lower prescription drug costs, and protect access to care at our hospitals and clinics. These are fights I know how to win.”

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As Governor, Amy Klobuchar will also take on the complicated and outdated systems that are driving up costs, making it difficult to access care, and creating opportunities for fraud. She will have zero tolerance for Medicaid fraud and will root it out and stop it before it starts. She’ll make it easier to access care by simplifying forms for billing, insurance, hospital assistance, and prior authorizations, and launch a “What’s it Cost?” tool to bring more transparency to the cost of medical care so families can compare the cost of procedures before they set foot in a clinic, helping lower premiums in the process. And she will work to rein in corporate health care costs by ensuring pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) pass along savings – no more hidden markups, and no more pocketing rebates that belong to consumers.

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Lower premiums on MNsure. When the Trump administration let the enhanced premium tax credit expire, families’ costs jumped overnight, and Americans buying their own insurance were hit hard. As Governor, Klobuchar will continue advocating for an extension of the federal premium tax credits and, if there is no federal action, she will work to create a state tax credit, delivered through MNsure, targeted at the small business owners, self-employed workers, and farmers hit hardest by the federal tax credit expiration.

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Klobuchar will also stand up for reproductive freedom, expand access to mental health services, and provide resources for addiction.

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Expand telehealth services. Klobuchar will guarantee that care delivered by telehealth is covered and paid at the same rate as in-person care, for all services and all plans, and make coverage of audio-only visits permanent, so seniors and rural Minnesotans without reliable broadband aren’t left behind. Building on her leadership on broadband in the Senate, she will finish the job on universal broadband and a stronger statewide digital health framework so residents in every ZIP code can see specialists from home.

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Klobuchar also knows we need to expand our health care workforce, including doctors, nurses, clinicians, medical technicians, pharmacists, dental hygienists and dentists, so Minnesotans don’t have to drive two hours or wait two months to get care. She’ll do this by recruiting and training medical professionals, expanding health care pipelines, and supporting primary care providers. Klobuchar’s full plan to recruit, train, and retain Minnesota’s workforce, including the health care sector, is available at AmyKlobuchar.com/workforce.

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Launch a Minnesota Innovation Network. Minnesota’s next generation of cures and treatments will come from connecting researchers, entrepreneurs, and health systems, so a discovery made in a Rochester or Twin Cities lab or a rural startup becomes a treatment, a company, and Minnesota jobs. As Governor, Klobuchar will build a coordinated statewide system that connects Minnesota businesses to universities, research centers, and incubators with local innovation hubs focused on health care along with advanced manufacturing, energy, and agriculture. Klobuchar’s administration will pool resources and use public-private financing to bring new treatments from the lab to the market faster and connect innovators with employers.

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As Governor, Amy Klobuchar will keep fighting to lower health care costs so families can afford to get the care they need. She’ll work to negotiate lower prescription drug prices. She’ll hold companies accountable and ensure what they charge actually reflects the cost of care. She’ll improve access to care by strengthening hospitals and clinics, especially in rural areas, expanding our health care workforce, and modernizing IT systems. She will always protect a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions.

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Give small businesses a tax credit to help cover their employees’ health insurance. Small businesses want to do right by their workers but are being priced out of offering coverage. As Governor, Klobuchar will create a per-employee state tax credit for small employers who fund their workers’ health coverage, so Main Street can compete with big companies for talent without going broke doing it.

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Protect coverage from federal cuts and improve the health care system.

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Support our veterans’ health care. Klobuchar will work with federal authorities and County Veterans Service Officers to cut through red tape and make sure Minnesota veterans can access the full Veteran Affairs (VA) health care and mental health services they’ve earned. Her administration will also join the VA’s Governor’s Challenge to strengthen veteran suicide prevention across the state.

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Support Minnesota’s health care workforce.

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Minnesota is an international hub for innovative care, cures, and medical technology. Klobuchar will expand on and strengthen our state’s medical innovation. She’ll partner with our world-class hospitals and research institutions to advance the future of medicine in Minnesota, build a statewide innovation network that turns discoveries into companies and jobs, drive medical innovation that increases competition and expands patient choice, and prepare our workforce for the health care careers of the future.

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Increase transparency and reform government.

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Strengthen safety net and rural health care – hospitals, clinics, EMS, and pharmacies – and help Minnesotans retain coverage. Klobuchar will keep care close to home both in the Metro and in Greater Minnesota by supporting the hospitals and clinics families rely on. She will provide targeted grants to modernize facilities and upgrade aging infrastructure, protect the 340B discounts that keep rural and safety net hospitals open, and provide funding for rural emergency medical services – including for rapid-response emergency vehicles statewide so help comes fast, no matter your ZIP code. She will advocate for restoring the Medicaid funding cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill and use every available data source to make sure Minnesotans retain coverage.

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Expand mental health access across Minnesota. Klobuchar will work to restore and expand the school-linked mental health grants so kids and their parents can get help in school. She will build the mental health workforce, including dedicated rural mental health counselors and social workers. Her goal will be to add psychiatric bed capacity, with a specific focus on kids, building on the 2025 bonding investment. She will direct the Commerce Department to enforce equal coverage for mental and physical health, so insurance covers mental health and addiction care like the health care it is. And she will work to fully fund Minnesota’s mobile crisis response so that in a mental health emergency, help comes where it is needed.

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Launch Minnesota Health Care Future to expand our health care workforce. Minnesota must recruit and train doctors, nurses, and medical technicians. Klobuchar’s administration will work with the University of Minnesota and the state college system, as well as Minnesota employers and unions, to develop specialized recruitment campaigns and training pathways to encourage medical professionals to live and work in the Minnesota communities that need them most. One of many examples is the University of Minnesota’s NXT GEN MED three-year degree program in Rochester.

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Lower health care costs by bringing down premiums to deliver more value and leveraging the state’s purchasing power to lower prescription drug costs

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Launch a “What’s it Cost?” tool so families can see the price of care before they get it. Klobuchar’s administration will launch a tool so families can compare the cost of procedures – like an MRI, a surgery, or childbirth – before they ever set foot in a clinic, the same way they shop for any other service.

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Modernize the systems Minnesotans rely on. Klobuchar will modernize government technology to deliver results faster. That includes completing the state health insurance portal upgrades, expanding data-driven automatic renewals, and moving toward one-stop enrollment, so applying for and keeping coverage is streamlined and seamless. Read Klobuchar’s full plan to transform state government at AmyKlobuchar.com/accountable.

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Build and expand on Minnesota’s leading work on addiction. Building on Klobuchar’s work as county attorney and in the Senate, she will expand access to evidence-based drug and alcohol treatment and prevention. As U.S. Senator and as Hennepin County Attorney, she has long supported drug courts, as well as therapies, treatment, prevention, and research into new and effective treatment options. She will ensure every opioid settlement dollar is used for treatment and prevention, expand rural treatment capacity, and partner with counties, towns, and Tribal Nations.

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Expand health care pipelines. Klobuchar’s administration will work to waive initial application fees for nurses, doctors, and med techs. Klobuchar will work to expand alternative pathways and streamline credentialing so graduates in other fields can transition into classrooms and clinics.

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Protect access to care by strengthening rural health care, safety-net hospitals and clinics, and health systems.

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Simplify paperwork by promoting a “One-Form” system for health insurance. Klobuchar will modernize the health care system by moving toward a “one-form” standard for billing, insurance, hospital assistance, and prior authorizations. She will require insurers and providers to use a standardized format to eliminate the redundant paperwork shuffle between patients, providers, and insurance companies, so doctors spend more time with patients and patients stop facing weeks of delay and months of confusion over medical bills. Read Klobuchar’s full plan to transform state government at AmyKlobuchar.com/accountable.

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Protect reproductive freedom. Klobuchar will protect the reproductive rights codified in state law by the PRO Act.

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Strengthen registered apprenticeships to additional industries like biotech and health care. Klobuchar is committed to working with the private and public sectors, as well as unions, to add 10,000 apprenticeship and skills training opportunities, including for health care workers. Building on the success of apprenticeships in the trades, she will bring the Minnesota Apprenticeship Initiative to additional industries like health care and biotech. She will work with employers and schools to connect high school students directly to emerging and high-demand careers such as nursing.

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Support medical innovation and our health care workforce – build on our state’s position as an international hub for cures, treatments, and technology by expanding and preparing our health care workforce and supporting new innovation.

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Zero tolerance for health care fraud – root it out and stop fraud before it starts. Klobuchar will transform state government across health programs so every health care dollar goes to care, not to services not delivered. Her administration will screen providers before they receive funding against a state “Do Not Pay” database; freeze suspicious payments before money goes out the door; prosecute fraud to the fullest extent of the law; use modern payment systems to catch billing anomalies in real time; and implement the recently passed bipartisan legislation to stand up the independent Office of Inspector General. Read Klobuchar’s full plan to transform state government at AmyKlobuchar.com/accountable.

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Expand the primary care and maternal care workforce. Klobuchar will work with employers and schools to train and recruit the primary care providers Minnesota needs – including family doctors, nurses, dentists, and community health workers – with a focus on the communities that have gone without them, so that seeing a primary care provider doesn’t mean a three-month wait or a three-hour drive. Our state should expand access to OB-GYNs, midwives, and other maternal health providers, and work to end the disparities that leave Black mothers roughly three times, and Native mothers more than four times, as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes.

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Lower prescription drug costs.

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Create partnerships between local employers, community colleges, and public and private colleges and universities, and advance Minnesota’s STEM education. Klobuchar will create partnerships between community colleges and local employers who are competing in the global economy to design curricula and credentials for high-demand jobs that exist right now, in fields such as health care, so training aligns directly with local hiring needs. She will work with our world-class tech and medical industries to expand science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, with mentorships, internships, and curriculum aligned to the jobs being created in Minnesota.

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Expand state bulk purchasing of prescription drugs. Building on Klobuchar’s Senate leadership that finally removed the Big Pharma sweetheart deal and allowed Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices, she will use the full authority of the executive branch to expand Minnesota’s bulk-purchasing of prescription drugs. Her administration will harness the Minnesota Multistate Contracting Alliance for Pharmacy (MMCAP), the largest multistate public purchasing pool in the nation, to consolidate pharmaceutical buying across state agencies and programs, and align any state employee plans alongside it.

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Make lower-cost generics and biosimilars more available. Building on Klobuchar’s work in the Senate to expand competition through generics and biosimilars, she will make lower-cost alternatives automatically available for prescription drugs across state programs as well as other lower-cost options and referrals for consumers.

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Convene a Minnesota employer purchasing coalition. Klobuchar will convene a coalition of large public and private Minnesota employers to align on purchasing high-cost drugs, share strategies for fair contracting with PBMs and other industry middlemen, and accelerate use of lower-cost equivalent drugs. She will help Minnesota employers work together to negotiate fair prices from national PBMs.

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End predatory practices by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Klobuchar will end practices that don’t pass along savings from discounts and conduct that steers patients to PBM-owned pharmacies, raising costs for Minnesotans.

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As governor, Amy Klobuchar will work to lower costs that have been going through the roof across the country — essentials like housing, child care, and health care. She’ll take action to build more homes for Minnesotans, supporting first-time homebuyers, renters, and growing families who need more space. She’ll work with child care providers, employers, and schools to expand access to child care. She’ll build on her years of fighting — and beating — Big Pharma to lower prescription drug prices for Minnesotans. And she’ll hold the line on utility bills by modernizing Minnesota’s power grid and adding more affordable, renewable energy.

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We need a government that can carry its weight and match your drive and ambition. Amy Klobuchar intends to transform our state government to be innovative, effective, and accountable. That starts by rooting out fraud and making sure the money coming out of your paycheck is not misspent. It means modern technology that delivers results fast. It means making it easy to start a business and bring good-paying jobs to Minnesota. It means turning the page on a bureaucracy that leaves people dreading having to jump through hoops to get a permit or start a business. Amy Klobuchar will take on our biggest challenges.

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Amy Klobuchar knows there are many paths to success. As governor, she’ll make sure Minnesotans can get the skills they need to build a good life here at home. She’ll build real on-ramps to good jobs, doubling apprenticeships and workforce training in the trades, health care, public safety, and emerging industries. She’ll raise academic achievement with evidence-based curriculum, tutoring to help kids catch up, and a focus on reading and math skills in elementary classrooms. And she’ll open doors to college and credentials, building partnerships between employers and colleges, expanding three-year degrees, and helping middle and high school students get a head start. Because anybody willing to work should have a path to success.

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Amy Klobuchar knows one-size-fits-all solutions don’t work for rural communities. She and her running mate, former Fergus Falls Mayor Ben Schierer, will expand Minnesota’s rural economy by working with businesses and farmers to grow and produce more products, find new markets, and export to the world. They will work with the private sector to build more homes, support rural hospitals, increase access to child care, and create new pathways to the workforce. They’ll modernize rural broadband and infrastructure, and strengthen the farm safety net. Together, they will make sure Minnesotans can live, work, and raise a family anywhere in Minnesota — because kids who grow up in rural Minnesota should be able to stay in rural Minnesota.

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Amy Klobuchar is committed to preserving Minnesota's natural resources and protecting the environment. As governor, she will protect Minnesota's natural resources, from lakes and wetlands to forests and farmland. She will promote strategies that protect public lands and wildlife habitat, preserve farmland, reduce fires and flooding, and keep our state's air and water clean. She knows we all share a responsibility to pass on the Minnesota way of life to future generations through conservation and smart policies that allow outdoor recreation, fishing, and hunting to thrive.

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We must take action to put buying a home and lower rents within reach for more people.”

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Build more homes, faster.

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Make owning a manufactured home more affordable.

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Support renters and stop rip-offs.

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Minnesota has a shortage of approximately 100,000 homes. The fastest way to lower housing costs is to build and rehabilitate homes to reduce that shortage. As Governor, Amy Klobuchar is committed to filling the housing gap by putting us on a path to build at least 100,000 homes, condos, and apartments.

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Working with cities to set consistent deadlines for housing permit applications, so each application gets a decision quickly instead of sitting for months, or even years, without a decision.

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Work with cities to remove mandates and redundant requirements that raise construction costs.

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Create a Minnesota Pro-Housing Incentive that rewards cities that want to build housing. Cities that voluntarily agree to build more housing, including renovating vacant commercial buildings, should be rewarded when applying for state funding.

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Make the State Housing Tax Credit permanent to incentivize private investment in housing and rental buildings across Minnesota.

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Launch a Rural Housing Loan Fund, a low-interest revolving pool to help rural developers cover the high infrastructure costs of building in small towns.

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Factory-built starter homes are one of the most affordable paths to homeownership. Amy Klobuchar’s family knows this personally – her husband, John, grew up in a manufactured home until he was in the 6th grade. Treating manufactured housing fairly expands supply at the price point Minnesotans most need. Manufactured home owners often face unique burdens: many families own their home while renting the land beneath it, which leaves them exposed when a private equity owner raises fees, neglects upkeep, or sells the land. As Governor, Amy Klobuchar will work to support owners of manufactured homes and remove barriers that undermine them.

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Protect residents from deceptive, hidden charges and poor maintenance. Shield manufactured home park residents from unpredictable and excessive increases in their lot fees, and eliminate the practice of compounding late fees and multiple increases within a single year. Require park owners to provide transparent, itemized billing for all services and guarantee residents secure payment methods.

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Adopt commonsense protections that already exist in many states that ban landlords from rejecting renters just because they use housing vouchers.

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Stop companies from using shared algorithms to coordinate rent prices. As Senator, Amy Klobuchar introduced a bill to take on price fixing using algorithms, and as Governor she will work to ban this practice in Minnesota.

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Make large institutional landlords report acquisitions and rent increases and release this information in a public database so Minnesotans can see whether they are pushing up local rents. In addition, the Senator supports the Senate-passed ROAD to Housing Act, which puts caps on the number of homes owned by large institutional landlords.

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While assistance exists for families struggling to afford a home or pay their rent, too often it is impossible for them to access it. Homebuyers must often submit identical information across multiple agencies. Renters must navigate a patchwork of programs and forms. As Governor, Amy Klobuchar will make it easier for Minnesotans to access existing housing assistance so families can afford their homes and stay in their homes.

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Modernize state government to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. Replace decades-old IT systems with modern technology, paid for through bonding, so the government works better for everyone who depends on it.

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Launch a Minnesota Innovation Initiative. Use technology to improve government services, streamline state applications, and make it easier to start and grow a business.

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Launch the Last Mile Initiative to finish universal broadband. Direct state matching dollars to the 120,000 households still lacking the 100/20 Mbps standard because they’re the costliest to reach.

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Launch a Minnesota Innovation Network. Build a coordinated statewide system that connects Minnesota businesses to universities, research centers, and incubators with hubs focused on advanced manufacturing, energy, health care, and agriculture – so a good idea from a lab in Duluth or a farm in Worthington has a clear path to becoming a product, a company, and Minnesota jobs. Pool resources and use public-private financing to speed commercialization and connect innovators with employers.

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Streamline Minnesota’s permitting process. Direct agencies to adopt accountable permitting deadlines and refund the cost of license and permit fees if applications aren’t decided within the promised timeframe.

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Modernize online permitting into a single, simplified, user-friendly application. One login, one place to track status, replacing the disconnected agency-by-agency process.

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Launch a single Minnesota Business One-Stop portal. Consolidate permits, licenses, and business registration in one place; eliminate the agency-by-agency maze for entrepreneurs.

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Make state dollars go further. Require agencies to identify and deliver savings through program efficiencies, procurement reform, IT modernization, and administrative streamlining.

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Streamline building codes. Eliminate redundant regulatory requirements that drive up construction costs without compromising safety.

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Build more homes faster. Work with localities to set timelines for housing permit reviews and reduce bureaucratic delays that drive up prices and rents.

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Lower city permitting costs. Provide state-designed permitting templates so cities and builders cut paperwork while keeping local control.

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Establish a Permanent Ban for anyone convicted of fraud against state grants or contracts– including executives, subsidiaries or other entities that knowingly participated in the crime.

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Treat kickbacks as fraud. When a provider pays off a family to bring in Medicaid patients that’s fraud in Medicaid and should be prosecuted as fraud across the board.

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Require action plans based on detailed reviews of Office of the Legislative Auditor reports.

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Protect whistleblowers. Create clear, accessible reporting pathways for fraud tips and real protections for people who raise concerns.

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Build real on-ramps to good jobs. Expand apprenticeships and earn-while-you-learn pipelines for Minnesotans at any stage in their career, especially in teaching, health care, public safety, and the trades.

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Raise academic achievement across Minnesota. Expand the use of evidence-based curricula that have been proven to work in districts across the country to increase reading and math skills, so more kids graduate ready to succeed.

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As governor, she’ll make sure Minnesotans can get the skills they need to build a good life here at home. Because a strong economy depends on preparing Minnesotans through high-quality education, increasing student achievement, apprenticeships, workforce programs for high-demand jobs, one-to-four-year degrees, and beyond. She’ll work with employers to create credentials that give students the skills they actually need to get a job. That’s how we support an innovation economy and stay competitive in emerging and growing industries like health care and biotech, precision agriculture, and advanced manufacturing.

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As our U.S. Senator, Amy Klobuchar has worked across the aisle to expand pathways to good jobs. She led the bipartisan Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act, signed into law last year, to allow families to use 529 savings accounts to pay for skills training, credentialing, and apprenticeships. And she has long championed her bipartisan American Apprenticeship Act to provide tuition assistance for workers in registered apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs. She knows these programs work, and as governor, she will expand them in Minnesota.

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Strengthen registered apprenticeships by adding 10,000 apprenticeship and skills training opportunities, roughly doubling the number of registered apprentices. Build on the success of apprenticeships in the trades – like for electricians and plumbers – by bringing the Minnesota Apprenticeship Initiative to additional industries like biotech, health care, advanced manufacturing, and precision agriculture. Connect high school students directly to emerging and high-demand careers in cybersecurity, technology, and nursing, as well as the trades – which is especially important right now in the age of AI.

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Expand educators, health care, and public safety professional pipelines. Broaden recruitment of educators, health care, and public safety professionals, including teachers, nurses, doctors, med techs, and police officers by waiving initial application fees to reduce the financial burden on recent graduates and new professionals. Expand alternative pathways and streamline credentialing so promising workers, including graduates in other fields, can transition more easily into classrooms and clinical settings.

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Strengthen career navigation and job matching. Give workers and employers better tools to connect and pair training with supportive services, especially childcare and housing, that too often keep people from finishing a program or taking a job. Leverage regional Workforce Development Boards to ensure strategies are informed and responsive to the needs of local communities and employers.

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Launch a Minnesota “Future of Work” initiative with incentives, credentials, and public-private partnerships that help businesses train their employees in emerging fields such as cybersecurity, tech management, and advanced robotics.

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Launch a public-private Skilled Workers and Trades Fund. Create a dedicated, public-private fund for debt-free, short-term training in the trades, health care, education, emergency services, public safety and other in-demand occupations. Built alongside employers, this fund can prepare our workforce for a changing job landscape as a result of AI.

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Amy Klobuchar believes in using the best ideas – because Minnesota’s kids deserve excellence, and our economy needs a strong workforce. As both a mom and the daughter of a teacher who taught second grade until she was 70-years-old, Amy Klobuchar knows the importance of education and student achievement. As governor, she will use proven evidence-based approaches to raise student achievement, reduce racial and economic disparities in education, and push real improvement in our schools.

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Improve reading and math skills. Ensure proven, evidence-based curriculum in elementary classrooms, and give teachers and parents the training and materials to deliver reading and math excellence. Instruction must follow what the research shows works to lift student achievement and reduce disparities in education. This is similar to the evidence-based approaches taken in other states, which are using phonics curriculum, high-quality instructional materials, and teacher training to improve reading and math scores. Require parent-teacher meetings for students who are behind in reading and math.

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Give children the extra help they need to succeed with reading and math tutoring. When students fall behind in reading or math, they shouldn’t be left to struggle. Partner with schools to provide regular, small-group tutoring that helps students build confidence, catch up, and stay on track. Research shows that targeted tutoring is one of the most effective ways to accelerate learning and close opportunity gaps. Establish a Minnesota Summer Reads Initiative to support summer reading programming through public-private partnerships.

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Make sure our educators have the resources they need to succeed. Continue to strongly fund our schools and work to make health care more affordable for school personnel.

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A one-to-four-year degree and beyond are pathways that provide options to students and expand our workforce. Amy Klobuchar has advocated for more federal funding for community, technical, and tribal college programs. As governor, Klobuchar will keep working to expand affordable access to all Minnesota colleges, including community and technical colleges, so costs never keep a Minnesotan from a credential that leads to a good job.

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Launch Employer Training Incentives. Implement a tiered tax credit for small- to medium-sized businesses that supports training, allowing businesses to offset some of the cost for recognized certifications.

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Expand three-year degrees. Support accelerated higher education pathways modeled after successful initiatives like the Rochester NXT GEN MED program. By partnering with employers and utilizing year-round learning, students can enter the workforce a year sooner with less debt.

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Expand Minnesota’s rural economy by working with businesses and farmers to grow and produce more products, find new markets, invent things, and export to the world.

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Keep rural Minnesota competitive and connected to markets, schools, and government with good broadband, infrastructure, and workable supply chains.

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Keep the farm safety net strong during difficult economic times.

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Klobuchar and Schierer know that one-size-fits-all solutions don’t work for rural communities. Together they will make it easier for farmers to grow and produce more products, work with rural Minnesotans to find new markets, and support Minnesotans who are inventing things and exporting to the world. They’ll protect rural health care and support rural hospitals at risk of closing by protecting their 340B discount from efforts to restrict it, lower housing costs by working with the private sector to build more homes, and create new apprenticeships and one- to four-year degree programs and beyond, so that Minnesotans can afford to live, work, and raise a family in rural Minnesota. Because kids who grow up in rural Minnesota should be able to stay in rural Minnesota.

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The current federal across-the-board tariffs, volatile input costs, and cuts to rural health care have created major headwinds for our entire state, especially in rural Minnesota. These headwinds may well be constants, but they can’t be an excuse for not moving forward economically in Minnesota. As governor, Amy Klobuchar will work with rural businesses and farmers to expand our rural economy by growing and producing more products, finding new markets, inventing things, and exporting to the world. That means partnering with rural businesses and helping them grow, expanding new markets and uses of products like biofuels, building local fertilizer production, supporting local food infrastructure, launching a Minnesota Innovation Network to cultivate new ideas across our state, and lowering the cost of farming. This plan has a particular focus on agriculture, with more to come as Klobuchar will outline plans for other economic sectors in the future.

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Increase markets for rural businesses. Partner with manufacturers, medical employers, and other businesses across Greater Minnesota to help them expand markets and grow. Work with the U.S. Small Business Administration, the federal Foreign Commercial Service, the Minnesota Trade Office (MTO) within the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), and the IRRRB, to open new domestic and international markets for rural businesses and recruit new businesses in Greater Minnesota. This builds on Senator Klobuchar’s bipartisan legislative work with Senator John Hoeven (R-ND) to help small-town and rural businesses reach international markets and grow exports.

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Connect rural businesses to international markets. Make sure rural interests are included in any efforts to recruit and expand business opportunities with other countries. Put a special emphasis on export training for rural and small businesses, including farmers, ranchers, manufacturers, and innovators.

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Cut red tape for rural businesses. Give rural employers timely, predictable answers from state government so they can plan, expand, and build; pair the comprehensive permitting review and “One-Stop Shop” enrollment portal with firm response timelines and a single point of contact for a clear yes-or-no on permits, licenses, and land, without lowering health, safety, or environmental standards. Work with the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise Minnesota, and the trades to streamline permitting and encourage expansions, relocations, and startups.

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Expand access to state land for local development. Create a clear process for cities to acquire state-owned and tax-forfeited land for housing, commercial, and industrial development.

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Promote and expand tourism across our state. Promote rural Minnesota, including our parks and trails, agritourism, farm-to-table restaurants, breweries, museums, music venues, theaters, and – to mention a few – iconic sites like Bemidji’s Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, Ironworld, Redhead Mountain Bike Park, the Central Lakes Region, Lake Superior, multiple river attractions, Mississippi River cruises, Tribal historic sites, and the world’s only SPAM Museum through Explore Minnesota. As a long-time lead of the bipartisan Senate Travel and Tourism Caucus and the lead author of multiple pieces of passed legislation on tourism, Senator Klobuchar will have a unique perspective on how to expand tourism in our state.

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Launch a Minnesota Innovation Network. Build a coordinated statewide system connecting Minnesota businesses across our state to universities, research centers, and incubators, as well as agencies and nonprofits like the IRRRB, AURI, and nonprofit development organizations. Create hubs in advanced manufacturing, energy, health care, and agriculture so that good ideas everywhere have a shot of becoming reality. Build on University of Minnesota research and outreach centers to research, develop, and scale technologies that make Minnesota farms and other rural businesses more profitable and resilient.

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Make Minnesota the leader of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) industry. As the co-chair of the bipartisan U.S. Senate SAF Caucus, Senator Klobuchar has been an advocate for extending the 45Z clean fuel tax credit. Use the Minnesota SAF Production Credit as well as federal incentives to expand existing and attract new companies that will convert Minnesota-grown feedstocks into low-carbon jet fuel. Partner with major airlines at MSP Airport and feedstock processing facilities to make Minnesota a primary supplier for the sustainable-flight market and a new value-added stream for grain farmers.

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Support biofuel production and new innovations that turn agricultural products like corn and soybeans into high-demand energy products.

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Grow Minnesota’s hemp industry. Create local jobs and new markets for farmers by increasing the use of industrial hemp and continuing safe regulation of hemp-derived recreational products. Direct MnDOT and state agencies to use bio-based (hemp-fiber) materials when they meet specs (e.g., erosion-control), creating stable in-state industrial hemp demand.

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Support sustainable practices by expanding incentives for precision agriculture, helping farmers apply inputs more precisely, saving money and protecting soil and water, with priority for projects that partner with innovation hubs. Expand voluntary, incentive-based programs that help farmers deliver ecosystem services, such as Minnesota’s soil-health equipment grants.

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Expand local and regional meat processing, creating new opportunities for farmers to market their products. Build on successes in meat processing to build more capacity across other product types.

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Strengthen the food supply chain with regional food hubs, warehouses where small farmers aggregate product for sale to hospitals, universities, and other public institutions, bridging the gap between a family farm and a large institution. Expand support for local farmers markets and increase institutional purchases of local food for schools, child-care centers, and hospitals through Minnesota Grown and Farm to School.

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Support Minnesota Grown to help producers brand and market local products.

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Lower costs for farmers and make farming easier. Expand the farm equipment sales-tax exemption to include fencing and grain-bin equipment, protect full first-year tax deductions for major farm equipment and machinery purchases, and update state programs so farms can access the resources meant for them.

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Build local fertilizer production and storage to create price stability for farmers by backing efforts to manufacture key inputs, including green ammonia, using renewable energy.

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Expand on-farm energy, supporting the development of on-farm solar, wind, and methane digesters.

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Kids who grow up in rural Minnesota should be able to stay in rural Minnesota – but right now, too many can’t. Employers struggle to recruit workers who can’t always find a place to live. Parents can’t take or keep jobs when there’s no child care nearby. And families won’t put down roots in communities where they can’t access health care – yet rural hospitals and clinics are at risk of closing because of new Trump administration cuts. Amy Klobuchar knows that one-size-fits-all solutions don’t work for rural communities, and she will work to close these gaps: building more homes, expanding child care options, protecting rural health care, creating new opportunities for apprenticeships and one- to four-year degree programs and beyond in everything from health care to hospitality to agriculture to mining and manufacturing, and supporting beginning farmers so that Minnesotans can afford to live, work, and raise a family in rural Minnesota.

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Expand rural child care by building on the great examples that already exist in rural Minnesota, from Luverne to the Iron Range, from Austin to Warroad, including expanding existing child care providers and supporting innovative models of care such as child care “pods.” Expedite state training and retention resources for communities with the most acute child care shortages, and help small child care providers reduce overhead while preventing fraud and waste with access to a child care operations hub.

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Build real on-ramps to good jobs by adding 10,000 apprenticeship and skills training opportunities, especially in teaching, health care, public safety, and the trades. Raise academic achievement across Minnesota using evidence-based reading and math curricula that have been proven to work in districts across the country – including in states such as Mississippi and Alabama – to increase reading and math skills. Keep students on task by banning cell phones in K–12 classrooms and work with school districts on screen time limits. Open the doors to college and credentials by expanding community college and one- to four-year degree pathways that connect directly to in-demand careers. Read Klobuchar’s full plan to expand Minnesota’s workforce here: AmyKlobuchar.com/workforce.

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Build on the Explore Minnesota for Business that attracts new residents and workers to rural communities.

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Coordinate resources for them and strengthening FarmLink. Provide a single point of contact to help new farmers navigate federal grants and loans, conservation programs, and state funding, while ensuring that farmers can count on programs like Minnesota’s Beginning Farmer Tax Credit. Match retiring farmers with new producers who can continue to work the land, including offering state-backed good-faith mediation to facilitate long-term leases or land transfers without costly legal fees.

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Our farms, dairies, and processing plants can’t run without workers, and a broken federal immigration system is holding Minnesota’s rural economy back in many sectors, including farming. Amy Klobuchar has led bipartisan efforts in the Senate to fix it. She’ll keep pushing for reforms that give farmers and employers a stable, legal workforce and the certainty they need to plan and grow. This is a federal responsibility, and she won’t stop working until we get it done.

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Rural Minnesota’s economic strength depends on whether its people and businesses can get online, get their goods to market, and get a fair deal. Too many rural communities are still waiting for reliable broadband, watching roads and bridges deteriorate, and navigating a maze of government programs. As governor, Amy Klobuchar will work to keep rural Minnesota competitive and connected – to markets, schools, and government – with good broadband, infrastructure, and workable supply chains. That means finishing the job on universal broadband; modernizing rural roads, bridges, and transportation infrastructure, including ports; making it easier for farmers and small businesses to access the programs they need; and fighting for fair prices for rural consumers and grocers alike.

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While Minnesota continues to be the 6th-largest agricultural producer in the country, generating $100 billion each year and supporting nearly 400,000 jobs, our farmers are being squeezed from every direction at once. Nationally, farm bankruptcies have reached a five-year high and twice as many Minnesota farmers are using our state’s Farmer-Lender Mediation Program to stave off bankruptcy. They deserve a governor who has their back. As governor, Amy Klobuchar will work to keep the agriculture safety net strong during difficult economic times. That includes expanding low-interest emergency loans for farmers facing market volatility, bolstering Minnesota’s veterinary response to animal disease outbreaks, strengthening farmer-lender mediation, and protecting the biosecurity programs that keep Minnesota’s livestock producers in business.

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Work with the Veterinary Reserve Corps, a network of private-sector veterinarians trained by the state to mobilize immediately during a suspected animal disease outbreak. Senator Klobuchar founded the bipartisan Senate Veterinary Medicine Caucus with Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS).

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Expand and make permanent the AGRI Protect biosecurity grants and raise the per-farm cap so producers can afford barn-scale upgrades. Minnesota is the nation’s top turkey state, and avian flu has hit hard, with roughly 1.2 million commercial birds lost in 2025, with new outbreaks this year. Higher caps also help unlock federal indemnity now that audits are required before restocking.

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As Governor I’ll protect our land, water, and wildlife habitats so the next generations can continue to enjoy them.”

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Amy Klobuchar is committed to preserving Minnesota’s natural resources and protecting the environment. Klobuchar grew up in a family that valued the outdoors, with a grandfather who was an avid hunter, a dad who was a mountain climber, bicyclist, and winter sports enthusiast, and a mom who loved to fish and hike.

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Protect Minnesota’s lands and waters by continuing support for the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment.

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Support hunters, anglers, and outdoor recreation by strengthening habitat partnerships.

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Protect Minnesota’s wildlife with research funding and science-based policies.

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Expand the outdoor economy by investing in trails, water and land access, forests, and the travel destinations that depend on them.

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Minnesotans have voted across party lines to protect the state’s lands and waters, from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment to the lottery-funded Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund. Amy Klobuchar strongly supported the Legacy Amendment and in the U.S. Senate she has secured federal funding for habitat and restoration projects across Minnesota and worked with Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota to protect and enhance the federal conservation programs that keep working lands healthy. As Governor, she will protect what those Minnesota voters built. She will lay the groundwork to extend the Legacy Amendment before it sunsets, keep conservation funds invested in real, on-the-ground projects, and make drinking water safer in communities across the state.

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Keep the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund working for the outdoors. Minnesotans renewed the lottery-funded ENRTF with 77% support, dedicating 40% of state lottery proceeds to the outdoors through 2050. Amy Klobuchar will make sure those dollars are spent the way voters intended: on real, on-the-ground projects.

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Renew state parks and public lands by reducing the DNR’s deferred-maintenance backlog. As Governor, Klobuchar will work to build new DNR projects, from bridges to campgrounds, with climate-resilient, flood-mitigation standards when possible, so parks stay open and safe through floods.

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Fight for Minnesota’s conservation programs in Washington. Minnesota’s farmers and ranchers depend on federal conservation programs like the Conservation Reserve Program, the Conservation Stewardship Program, and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program to keep their working lands healthy and productive. Amy Klobuchar has long worked with Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota to strengthen and expand these programs, and to ensure that the offices farmers count on are open and staffed. As Governor, she will continue this advocacy so that Minnesota farmers and ranchers who want to participate in these programs can access them and get the on-the-ground support they need.

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Support sustainable farming practices. Klobuchar will expand incentives for precision agriculture, helping farmers apply inputs more precisely, saving money and protecting soil and water. As Governor, she will work to expand voluntary incentive-based programs aimed at enhancing conservation, such as Minnesota’s soil-health equipment grants. Read more about Amy Klobuchar’s plan for the rural and agricultural community here: AmyKlobuchar.com/rural.

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Stand up for Minnesota’s public lands. Public lands belong to the people who use them. When Congress moved to strip protections from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and other federal lands through an unprecedented use of a procedural mechanism, Klobuchar voted no and warned it would have far-reaching consequences for public lands across the country. As Governor, she will oppose efforts to shrink the public lands and waters Minnesotans depend on, and she will work with partners like Pheasants Forever, Ducks Unlimited, and Minnesota’s land trusts to expand access to public lands.

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Make drinking water safer in communities across the state. As Governor, Klobuchar will work to improve aging water infrastructure and deploy Water Quality Technical Strike Teams to give small towns and local governments the engineering expertise to design runoff mitigation.

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Put water dollars into real projects. As Governor, Klobuchar will support the state’s Clean Water Fund dollars going to on-the-ground work that will have long-term, durable benefits for the state. She will pair state clean-water dollars with federal USDA conservation programs, including the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program.

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Hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation are a big part of Minnesota’s heritage, and they are part of Amy Klobuchar’s own family’s heritage, too. In the U.S. Senate, she cosponsored the bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act to increase hunting, fishing, and recreational shooting access for sportsmen and women, and worked to expand the “open fields” program that creates public hunting and fishing opportunities on private land. As Governor, she will build on that work by opening more land to public access, strengthening habitat partnerships, putting more Department of Natural Resources (DNR) staff in the field, and recruiting the next generation of outdoor enthusiasts.

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Expand access to public lands. In the U.S. Senate, Amy Klobuchar worked to expand access to public lands for hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation. She passed the bipartisan federal Sportsmen’s Act into law and led the reauthorization of the Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program, the federal fund behind state walk-in programs, which was endorsed by Pheasants Forever, Ducks Unlimited, and the National Wild Turkey Federation. As Governor, she will continue that work, including by expanding Minnesota’s Walk-In Access program, which compensates private landowners who voluntarily open their land to hunters.

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Strengthen habitat partnerships. As Governor, Klobuchar will partner with land trusts and sportsmen’s groups such as Pheasants Forever and Ducks Unlimited, as well as Minnesota’s land trusts, and build on her federal partnership work. She will push state agencies out of their silos so habitat, clean-water, and flood-mitigation dollars are targeted and leveraged together, the way the Worthington Wells partnership secured both wildlife habitat and a fix for the city’s drinking water.

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Rebuild the DNR’s presence in Greater Minnesota. As Governor, Klobuchar will put more staff in the field than in the office, reversing the decline in conservation officers, wildlife biologists, and fisheries staff based in Greater Minnesota. Klobuchar will strengthen Minnesota’s conservation workforce and ensure our natural resources are protected, our outdoor traditions continue, and communities have the expertise to manage healthy ecosystems.

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Recruit the next generation of outdoor enthusiasts. As Governor, Klobuchar will expand youth mentorship, outdoor education, school forest programs, and learn-to-fish and learn-to-hunt opportunities throughout the state.

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Minnesota’s wildlife face real pressures, from the loss of wetland habitat to chronic wasting disease and invasive species. We need policies that preserve our wildlife habitats, open spaces, and farmlands. In the U.S. Senate, Amy Klobuchar led the fight for continued funding of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, the public-private partnership that matches federal funds to protect and restore wetlands, and she authored the bipartisan provision that permanently closed the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock to keep invasive carp from moving upstream into Minnesota’s lake country. As Governor, she will work to restore the wetland habitat that waterfowl depend on, support a science-driven response to chronic wasting disease with sustained funding for testing and research, and take on invasive species before they spread.

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Launch a Minnesota waterfowl recovery effort. As Governor, Klobuchar will work to restore and manage shallow lakes and wetlands, working with sportsmen’s groups and habitat partners to bring back the wetland habitat that ducks and duck hunting depend on. In the U.S. Senate, she led the fight for continued funding of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, which protects and restores vital wetlands for migratory birds. She also strongly supports the Duck Stamp Program, which spotlights Minnesota artists while funding permanent waterfowl habitat protection. As Governor, she will launch a waterfowl recovery effort focused on restoring the conditions that let waterfowl populations recover.

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Take on aquatic invasive species. Klobuchar has long fought to protect Minnesota’s waterways from invasive species, including authoring the bipartisan 2014 provision that permanently closed the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock to stop invasive carp. As Governor, she will finish the job by completing the invasive carp deterrent at Lock and Dam 5 to safeguard Minnesota’s outdoor heritage for future generations. She will also continue to focus on all invasive species that pose a threat to our waters.

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Take on chronic wasting disease and support wildlife health. As Governor, Klobuchar will support a science-driven response to chronic wasting disease, including sustained funding for testing, carcass disposal, and research. In the U.S. Senate, she pushed the Departments of Agriculture and Interior to provide resources to combat chronic wasting disease and passed legislation providing $70 million a year for chronic wasting disease research and management.

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Manage Minnesota’s wildlife. Klobuchar supports pragmatic wildlife management that meets the goals of the Endangered Species Act while keeping decisions about Minnesota’s wildlife in Minnesota. She has backed bipartisan wildlife conservation bills, including the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. She has also supported bipartisan legislation to return gray wolf management to the states once populations recover, while maintaining the ability to relist wolves if populations decline.

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The outdoors have drawn people to Minnesota for generations. Whether it’s hunting or fishing, canoeing or kayaking, biking or hiking, outdoor recreation is a major economic engine supporting small businesses, resorts, and communities across the state. In the U.S. Senate, when the Recreational Trails Program was targeted for cuts, Amy Klobuchar rallied a bipartisan group of senators to protect the trails used by snowmobilers, off-highway motorcyclists, all-terrain vehicle riders, bicyclists, and cross-country skiers. As Governor, she will work with leaders of Minnesota’s outdoors economy to strengthen the trails, water access, forests, and habitat that this economy is built on to support communities across Minnesota.

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Strengthen Minnesota’s trail networks. As Governor, Klobuchar will support snowmobile, ATV, hiking, biking, and cross-country skiing trail networks in every way possible, including through the grant-in-aid club system. She will keep winter and motorized traditions strong across Greater Minnesota, and work with Minnesota’s recreational sports businesses, like Polaris and Arctic Cat. In the U.S. Senate, Klobuchar led the bipartisan effort to strengthen and fully fund the federal Recreational Trails Program that Minnesota’s trails rely on, and has worked extensively in Washington with the recreational sports industry.

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Improve public water access, including boat landings, fishing piers, and shore-fishing sites. Minnesotans deserve more places to launch a boat, cast a line, and get out on the water. As Governor, Klobuchar will build on the Get Out MORE state investment that modernized boating access and fisheries infrastructure, including expanding the network of shore-fishing sites and piers.

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Champion the outdoor economy. As Governor, Klobuchar will continue and expand the Outdoor Recreation Industry Partnership. She will bring in Explore Minnesota, private-sector members, and outdoor-gear research and development, so the outdoor economy that contributes over $10 billion a year to our state keeps growing.

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Keep Minnesota’s forests a strong economic pillar. Klobuchar will support sustainable timber harvests and forest-products jobs, protect peatlands, invest in wildfire resilience across northern Minnesota, and improve forest health and habitat. She will create a Forest Bio-Packaging and Innovation Initiative to leverage Minnesota’s forest biomass for wood-fiber packaging and bio-based materials. In the U.S. Senate, Klobuchar worked across the aisle to improve the State and Private Landscape Restoration Program, which funds projects that protect forests, reduce wildfire risk, and conserve wildlife habitat.

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Support Minnesota’s family resorts. As Governor, Klobuchar will work to keep Minnesota’s small resorts in local hands by building public-private partnerships that provide the expertise, resources, and investment to preserve these community anchors for generations to come.

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Give Minnesota sixth graders a “Passport to Minnesota.” As Governor, Klobuchar will work to provide a free one-year pass for sixth-grade students and their families to visit state parks, as well as participating museums and historic sites, paired with the sixth-grade Minnesota history curriculum.

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Make neighborhood sports affordable and available. As Governor, Klobuchar will keep taxpayer-funded fields and ice rinks, like those built through the James Metzen Mighty Ducks Act, open to the community by limiting overly exclusive private leases, and use state authority to keep Minnesota’s nation-leading community ownership of athletic facilities from being bought up by out-of-state, investor-owned enterprises.

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Floods, storms, and wildfires cause serious damage across Minnesota, and we need to be ready when natural disasters strike. In the U.S. Senate, Amy Klobuchar led Minnesota’s federal delegation in advocating for federal disaster relief, secured provisions in the Water Resources Development Act to improve shoreline resiliency and flood protection, and pressed the federal government to ensure we have the resources and firefighters to protect against and fight wildfires in Minnesota. As Governor, she will strengthen disaster response, coordinate the state’s work, and keep bringing federal dollars home.

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Respond to floods and severe storms. As Governor, Klobuchar will strengthen flood mitigation and emergency preparedness, work with farmers on programs that reduce erosion, and aggressively pursue federal disaster and resilience funding. In the U.S. Senate, Klobuchar has led Minnesota’s federal delegation in advocating for federal disaster relief, including Army Corps of Engineers funding to build and rebuild multiple projects, USDA and EPA resilience grants, and funding through the Water Resources Development Act, and she will continue that work as Governor.

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Strengthen wildfire readiness in northern Minnesota. Northern Minnesota’s fire risk is rising, as evidenced by the 2026 far-reaching Boundary Waters Canoe Area fires. The June 2025 derecho in Bemidji is an example of a storm that left millions of downed trees, which increases the risk of fires for years to come. As U.S. Senator, Klobuchar has pressed the federal government to ensure it has the resources and firefighters to fight and prevent fires in Minnesota and across the country. She has also supported legislation to cut red tape, increase interagency coordination, and invest in community resilience. As Governor, Klobuchar will partner with local, Tribal, and federal governments on fuel reduction and community risk reduction; invest in the equipment, training, and staffing that local and volunteer fire departments need; strengthen mutual-aid agreements and regional emergency coordination; press the federal government to fund hazardous-fuels work on federal land in Minnesota; and support communities doing the defensible-space and evacuation planning that keeps people safe.

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Coordinate disaster resilience. As Governor, Klobuchar will consolidate and better coordinate the state’s overlapping climate-resilience entities. She will establish measurable goals for community preparedness, emergency planning, shelters, backup power, and recovery programs.