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Ohio House OKs $64M Budget Containing Medicaid Controls

U.S. News & World Report: COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio House approved a nearly $64 billion, two-year operating budget Tuesday that would impose new controls on Medicaid expansion money and invest $170 million in tackling the state's No. 1 ranking in opioid deaths.

The bill cleared the Republican-controlled chamber 58-36 after three hours of debate.

House Democratic Leader Fred Strahorn, of Dayton, raised his party's objections to investment priorities that he said would leave the middle class behind. He said the state's economy is stalling because recent state budgets have pushed an increasing share of the financial burden to local communities, individuals and working families.

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