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In a stunning turn the Senate voted unanimously to make critical upgrades to Ohio's SNAP Benefit Cards. Senate Republicans have consistently tried to make improvements in how the cards are handled, but over the years Senator Tim Schaffer has been the target of hateful political attacks for just trying to protect the benefits for the people who need them the most. This week Senator Schaffer talks about the breakthrough and his overall message on fighting fraud in Ohio.

This week on a special edition of The President's Podcast—The Data Center Debate. We bring you the very best and very direct comments from people who have a unique understanding about why these digital libraries are critical to our national security and energy independence. Also watch the highlights of the news conference announcing the new Joint Data Center Committee.

Congressman Michael Rulli attended the White House Correspondents' Association dinner and heard the gunshots as a teacher attempted to carryout his plan to assassinate the President and as many Republican elected officials as possible. This week the Republican congressman from Ohio's 6th District talks about Trump Derangement Syndrome and the sociopathy that has taken over today's political left.

Call it election year narratives and semantics.There is a well funded effort against data center projects backed by technologically advanced nuclear power generated "behind the meter" that also produces power for the consumer grid.Why? Well, the left wants you to believe that they're big polluters.They want you to think they're radioactive.This week on the heels of the "Future of Nuclear Power" forum in Perry, Ohio, Senate Finance Chairman Jerry Cirino joins us to talk about data centers, nuclear power generation, and he has a direct message to the campaign that is fizzling over repealing property taxes.It's a must see hard hitting conversation that will have the left's head spinning.

The quiet little secret emerging in the data center debate might surprise you. It has ties to the same far left Anti-American billionaires that tried to gerrymander the Ohio Constitution in 2023 and who are still trying to kill the oil and gas industry in Ohio. Senator Education Chairman, Andrew Brenner, talks about that and some of the latest troubling attendance numbers from Ohio's biggest school systems. Plus, get his thoughts on the news coming from the campaign to repeal property taxes and how the General Assembly's work on reforms is far from finished.

Senator Terry Johnson delivers some hard hitting straight talk on the President's Podcast. He goes in-depth on why the Senate passed his bill protecting our 2nd Amendment rights from unlawful city ordinances. As a veteran who served in Iraq and Kuwait he talks about the decades of danger presented by Iran, and why data centers are crucial to national security.

As the world marvels at the Artemis Mission in preparation for a future trip to Mars, we take you on a trip to the "Field of Mars" in this week's President's Podcast."Field of Mars" is the translation for the Latin "Campus Martius" which is the First Settlement of the Northwest Territory or what we call today the Campus Martius Museum in Marietta, Ohio.As part of our America-250 coverage we take you on a tour of the museum that surrounds the original home of General Rufus Putnam, the man many consider the "'Father of Ohio," who was charged by President George Washington with leading the Ohio Company to establish what is now Marietta.Join us for a very special look at the history that still lives inside this museum.

7 terms in the United States Congress and 27 years in the United States Air Force lands him as the 10th President at Youngstown State University.In this very personal and revealing interview YSU President Bill Johnson talks about the clear and present danger our nation faces from enemies foreign and abroad, the remarkable value YSU offers to students wanting a career in STEM, and he talks about the tragedy that motivated him to write his inspirational book "Raising Fathers."

We welcome springtime to the Statehouse this week with a preview of what the agenda looks like in the final year of the 136th General Assembly. Senate President Rob McColley returns to The President's Podcast.He also looks back on Governor DeWine's final State of the State Address. The Governor signed SB 63 this week, officially banning the nonsense practice of Ranked Choice Voting in Ohio.

This week, Senator Theresa Gavarone, R-Bowling Green joins the President's Podcast to talk about the State of the State Address, and her bill that bans Ranked Choice Voting which awaits the governor's signature.