The Republican-dominated Ohio Senate has cleared its version of the state's operating budget along party lines with a nearly $86 billion price tag. The budget that passed the Senate Thursday tackles funding for universal school vouchers, income tax cuts and public assistance programs, among hundreds of other provisions. It's also stuffed with contentious policy changes not usually present in the spending blueprint. Republicans tout the budget as returning money to Ohio's citizens, but spending cuts to childcare, public education, food banks and affordable housing are prompting Democrats and advocates in those fields to deem the budget “heartless.”