Sen. Kevin Cramer said high-skilled foreign workers “are often the only specialists serving communities” in rural areas.
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President Donald Trump’s new $100,000 fee for companies hiring high-skilled foreign workers could make it harder for rural hospitals to find the specialists they desperately need, a Republican senator warned.
“Healthcare systems need clarity for how the administration’s actions will affect them,” Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican, told NOTUS in a statement Friday.
In rural America, high-skilled foreign workers “are often the only specialists serving communities,” Cramer said.
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