The new two-year state budget includes a 3% income tax cut, a new school funding plan and hundreds of millions of dollars for broadband, foster care, food banks and grants for businesses hurt by the pandemic. While the Republican-backed budget also included things that Democrats didn鈥檛 like, many of them voted for it.
All but one Senate Democrat and two thirds of House Democrats voted for the budget, though they opposed the tax changes and some policy items.
But in an interview for "The State of Ohio", House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes (D-Akron) said they supported the .
鈥淭he Fair School Funding Plan was the tipping point for so many members of our caucus, which is completely understandable considering for the past 25 years, we鈥檝e been trying to find our way there,鈥� Sykes said.
But she and 13 other Democrats felt strongly about voting against the plan: 鈥淲e just had to make sure that folks knew that this was not our budget.鈥�
Sykes the tax cut, the medical conscience clause and oil and gas drilling in state parks, which he didn鈥檛.
But Democrat-opposed in disputes over new district maps that will be drawn this year.
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