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Bernie Moreno Has Had Enough of Cincinnati’s DEI: ‘Must Be a Better Steward of Public Funds’

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, is taking issue with a new policy adopted by the Cincinnati City Council, the DEI Procurement Ordinance, calling it “potentially illegal and wasteful” in a July 2 letter to Democrat Mayor Aftab Pureval.

Moreno went into detail about the waste involved, writing that “the DEI Procurement Ordinance expands an already bloated DEI bureaucracy at City Hall and creates a new office that will likely subject all the City of Cincinnati’s contracts to a DEI analysis.”

“The City spends roughly three to five million dollars annually on DEI initiatives, grants, and departments with DEI policy objectives. These public dollars should be used to address real problems such as the City’s $30 million budget deficit or to protect citizens and businesses from violent crime,” Moreno continued.

The text of the ordinance, No. 202601864, mentions ordaining a new “Department of Economic Inclusion and Procurement” and also references “an Equitable Opportunity to Compete for Contracts and Subcontracts.”

Moreno insisted that the “City of Cincinnati must be a better steward of public funds.”

He noted that he agrees with President Donald Trump that........

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