Columbus, Ohio- This afternoon, Governor Mike DeWine delivered his annual State of the State address. Here’s what you didn’t hear: Ohio’s working families have been left behind while billionaires in the federal government threaten investments in our state.

DeWine bragged about Intel’s nearly $8 billion investment in Central Ohio that is expected to create as many as 10,000 jobs but he didn’t directly address the danger that Donald Trump and Elon Musk pose to the project. Ohio isn’t immune to the chaos and confusion in the federal government, and it weighs heavily on the state of the state.

As Ohioans face a federal government that already wants to take away their Medicaid access, the DeWine-Tressel administration is asking the federal government to allow them to impose work requirements, ripping healthcare away up to 61,000 Ohioans. 700,000 more Ohioans could lose access to Medicaid due to Republican state and federal budgeting.

Of course, DeWine didn’t mention that after a federal judge ordered his administration to pay more than $900 million in federal pandemic funds owed to Ohioans, he asked Attorney General Dave Yost to appeal the ruling. 

“Ohio families are struggling to make ends meet, and instead their state leadership is focused on making it harder to access healthcare and literally going to court to prevent Ohioans from getting payments owed to them,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “Ohioans deserve better from the DeWine-Tressel administration” 

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