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Ohio's capital budget contains $600 million for school buildings, $475 million for state colleges and universities and $400 million for local infrastructure, as well as $150 million for local projects and $717 million in one-time surplus state money.

The Ohio lawmakers are circulating a letter to legislators in other states to get them to sign onto the effort.

The head of the conservative organization behind the Project 2025 initiative was in Columbus to headline a gathering of one of the state’s most influential groups, the Center for Christian Virtue.

Ohio Senate lawmakers unveiled hundreds of amendments to House Bill 96, the biennial state budget, which is due June 30.

Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed 67 line items when he signed the biennial state budget late Monday night. It’s the highest count in more than a decade of budgets.

A vote in the House expected on Wednesday could end what is now the longest shutdown on record. Democrats are decrying the plan, saying it fails to address expiring health care subsidies.

1.4 million Ohioans currently rely on SNAP or food stamps.

The plan would fund DHS, except for immigration enforcement, through September. Republicans would then try to fund the whole agency for three years using a tactic that would not need Democratic votes.

A bipartisan group of state lawmakers want to change the way the Medicaid program is managed in Ohio.

Reporters repeatedly asked the Senate GOP leader to provide details of what caused two incidents where he froze at events. Mitch McConnell instead referred them to a recent letter from his physician.