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Vice President JD Vance used a speech in his home state on Monday to promote the GOP’s sweeping tax-and-border bill as a small group of protesters outside a northeast Ohio steel plant brandished signs critical of the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

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

The budget proposed by House Republicans that passed on a mostly party line vote includes $600 million in 30-year state-backed bonds for a domed stadium project for the Browns in a suburb of Cleveland.

Supporters of Ohio’s libraries have been lobbying hard for changes to the House budget.

There’s no change in the Republican House budget, as Ohio food banks are wrestling with cuts at the federal level too.

Fresh off a pair of difficult losses last year — the bitter defeat of three-term U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown to Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno, and the rejection by voters of the anti-gerrymandering amendment known as Issue 1 — the party's efforts at building anything close to a winning 2026 ticket have so far been muted, and for some, moving too slowly.

Local school board races and the State Board of Education are nonpartisan in Ohio, and party affiliations are not listed alongside the names of candidates.

Gov. Mike DeWine will appoint a successor to Vice President-elect JD Vance when he resigns from the Senate.

Ohio's two Black Republican state lawmakers have diverged from their Black Democratic colleagues on Issue 1.

Brown, who has held his Senate seat since 2007 and broadly supported LGBTQ+ rights throughout his career, is running against Republican businessman Bernie Moreno in a hotly contested swing state contest.