At This Hour…

More income tax cuts and a phased-in universal voucher program are among the hundreds of changes in a Republican-crafted proposal announced for Ohio’s nearly $86 billion dollar state budget. The two-year funding proposal already cleared the GOP-led House in April with bipartisan support, but a raucous vote on the floor hinted that a split in the House’s Republican supermajority is still alive and well and left questions about how they’ll iron out a final product with the Senate. And there will likely be lots to iron out. The Senate’s latest budget proposal, about $2 billion smaller, made some significant changes and more could be on the way before a scheduled June 15 vote.