![]() ![]() Senate Democrats slammed the budget plan. He acknowledged that's not likely to happen, though, and expects to spend the next two weeks hashing out a final version to give Gov. It's likely that all other things being equal if it was a normal course that there would probably be 50 votes for it." "This is a solid conservative budget," Huffman said Thursday. ![]() Senate President Matt Huffman, R-Lima, told reporters he decided to go in a more conservative, policy-driven direction centered around tax cuts and education reforms. Nearly all that chamber's Democrats voted for that version of the state spending plan. That's a big difference from what happened in the Ohio House in April. ![]() Every Democrat voted no, and two Republicans were absent. The budget, which lays out how Ohio will spend about $173 billion over the next two fiscal years, passed 24-7. ![]() Senate Republicans passed a "transformational" state budget Thursday over objections of Democrats who said they couldn't overlook Republican plans to combat perceived liberal bias on Ohio's college campuses, reduce increases for subsidized childcare and make all students eligible for school vouchers. ![]()
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