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Husted Weighs In On Budget Discussions

A photo of Lt. Gov. Jon Husted
DAN KONIK
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STATEHOUSE NEWS BUREAU

Ohio has been operating under a temporary budget for a week and a half. Lawmakers missed the June 30th deadline to pass a new two-year budget because they still disagree on some key sticking points.

Ohio Lieutenant Gov. Jon Husted didn’t have to oversee a temporary budget when he was the House Speaker more than ten years ago. Unlike majority Republicans who currently control the House and Senate, the GOP members which controlled the House back then agreed on tax cuts and government funding. When asked what he thinks about the current budget fight, Husted downplays the situation.

“Everybody’s part of success and everybody’s part of failure and so, we all learn from this process. The end product is going to be a good product.”   

Ohio’s temporary budget will expire on July 17.

Jo Ingles is a professional journalist who covers politics and Ohio government for the Ohio Public Radio and Television for the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse News Bureau. She reports on issues of importance to Ohioans including education, legislation, politics, and life and death issues such as capital punishment. Jo started her career in Louisville, Kentucky in the mid 80’s when she helped produce a televised presidential debate for ABC News, worked for a creative services company and served as a general assignment report for a commercial radio station. In 1989, she returned back to her native Ohio to work at the WOSU Stations in Columbus where she began a long resume in public radio.