GOP senator takes aim at blue-city mayor for move promoting foreign workers in key industry: 'Lit on fire'

FIRST ON FOX: Sen.Bernie Moreno (R-OH) is taking aim at the Democratic mayor of Columbus, Ohio, over a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that was signed with the African nation of Ghana promoting a joint nursing program."Instead of investing in Ohio’s domestic workforce, you and the Columbus City Council chose to direct $225,000 in public dollars towards recruiting nurses from overseas," Moreno wrote to Mayor Andrew Ginther on Wednesday morning, expressing "disappointment" over the MOU in Columbus, the state capital of Ohio."But this figure is only a fraction of the approximately $8.3 million in taxpayer dollars you have lit on fire to benefit noncitizens and foreign governments since you were elected as mayor."Moreno’s criticism comes after the city and Ghanaian officials signed a memorandum of understanding in September establishing the Ghana-Columbus Nursing Partnership Programme.

The agreement is intended to strengthen nursing education, expand workforce development, and create legal pathways for qualified Ghanaian nurses to enter Ohio’s health care workforce.RED-STATE SENATOR DROPS HAMMER ON DEM MAYOR OVER NEW 'WOKE' DEI ORDINANCE WHILE VIOLENT CRIME SURGESOhio Republican Sen.Bernie Moreno repeatedly pressed a former Biden adviser on whether illegal immigration is a crime in a heated hearing.

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Moreno argued that the agreement could result in American nurses being replaced by lower-cost foreign labor and said public funds should instead be used to expand enrollment and training capacity at Ohio colleges and universities."You were elected to serve the citizens of Columbus, not the citizens of Ghana," Moreno wrote."Increasing publicly subsidized foreign nursing recruitment programs will likely negatively impact American nurses’ wages.

These funds should be invested directly in Ohio nursing students and utilized to expand Ohio’s universities and colleges nursing programs’ capacity.I recommend you implement poli...