Big budget cuts -- specifically to the state's higher education system and its health and human services spending will be front and center today.

One day after Gov. Mark Dayton lambasted legislative Republicans saying their budgetary math doesn't add up, he will hold a round table at Metro State University where students, faculty members and administrators are scheduled to explain the impact of budget cuts on their institutions.

The bill approved by the Senate last month would cut the University of Minnesota's budget by 19 percent, or $243 million, while the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities' budget would be reduced by 13 percent, or about $167 million, according to estimates by administrators from the U and MnSCU. Under the bill passed by the House, both the university and MnSCU would sustain budget cuts of 13 percent, a combined reduction of nearly $320 million. Big budget cuts -- specifically to the state's higher education system and its health and human services spending will be front and center today.

The legislative conference committee will take up the health and human services bill this afternoon. Both chambers have proposed cutting those programs, some of the biggest and fastest-growing in the state budget, by more than $1 billion.

Later today, Dayton will meet with Gov. Zhao Zhengyong, Governor of Shaanxi Province, which is Minnesota's Chinese Sister State, and host a state dinner for the provincial delegation..

Meanshile, Dayton proclaimed today University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs Day in Minnesota, in honor of the Bulldogs NCAA Division I Men's hockey championship.

In a statement, the onetime hockey player said that "all Minnesotans feel enormous pride in the fantastic accomplishments of the very dedicated team, who worked very hard to earn the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldog's first ever National Championship."