Trump news at a glance: president hikes H-1B visa cost to $100,000 a year as aide tells firms to ‘train Americans’ | Trump administration
Donald Trump has signed a prescription to increase the costs for the H-1B visa to $ 100,000 in terms of the American technological industry, which contributed to millions in his presidential campaign.
The technological industry is based, more than any other sector of the American economy, on H-1B visa holders. About two-thirds of the jobs provided within the framework of the H-1B program are linked to the computer, according to government figures, but employers also use the visa to call on engineers, educators and health workers.
Critics of the program, including many workers in American technology, argue that it allows companies to suppress wages and the Americans from the touch that could work. Supporters, including the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, claim that this brings highly skilled workers essential to fill talent gaps and keep competitive companies. Musk, himself a naturalized American citizen born in South Africa, once held an H-1B visa.
Trump Signs imposing annual fees of $ 100,000 on the key visa group
US trade secretary Howard Lutnick told a press conference that “all large companies” had been informed of new costs. “One hundred thousand dollars a year for H-1B visas, and all the big companies are on board. We talked to them,” Larick said at an oval office event with the president.
“If you are going to train someone, you will train one of the recent graduates of one of the major universities in our land. Form Americans. Stop bringing people to take our jobs. ”
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Trump says Xi Jinping agreed to approve the tiktok agreement, but the details are not clear
Donald Trump said on Friday that he and Xi Jinping agreed to approve an agreement on Tiktok.
“He approved the Tiktok agreement,” said Trump about XI, suggesting that the leaders have signed a preliminary agreement. But Trump did not offer any details on the agreement or when he was signed.
American and Chinese leaders had connected to a telephone call earlier during the day, the first direct contact between the two leaders since June. China and the United States have been in a journalization of commercial negotiations and the future of Tiktok, a social media platform belonging to Chinese who faces a ban in the United States.
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The judge strikes the trial of $ 15 billion in Trump against the New York Times
A federal judge launched a defamation trial of $ 15 billion from Donald Trump against the New York Times, the publisher of Books Penguin and twice journalists, and said that the pursuit had been filled with “vituperation and invective” and violated the civil procedure in federal affairs so as not to arrive at the point.
The judge of the American district court Steven Merryday in Florida will allow the president to refresh and modify the action within 28 days.
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Democrats reject the bill on health care reductions while the closure is looming
On Friday, the American federal government approached a closure, after the Democrats made its wish not to support a measure sustained by the Republicans who would extend the funding of two additional months because it did not include provisions to protect health care programs.
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The American lawyer responsible for investigating the resignation of Trump criticisms
The federal prosecutor of the Oriental District of Virginia resigned on Friday under intense pressure from Donald Trump, after his office determined that there was no sufficient evidence to instill the New York Attorney General, Letitia James, a political rival of the president, with a crime.
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Democrats divided on the resolution of the American Chamber to honor Charlie Kirk
The murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk sparked a wave of political concern in Washington, some Democrats in the Chamber fearing a messaging trap on a republican resolution to honor it while other legislators are concerned about the wider political temperature after the government’s pressure on the broadcasters.
The Democrats finally decided to line up on the side of the Republicans to adopt the resolution, with 95 democrats in support. Fifty-eight democrats opposed, 38 voted and 22 did not vote.
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Ted Cruz compares the threats to ABC by the FCC chair to those of Mob Boss
Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, compared the threats of Brendan Carr to revoke the broadcasting licenses of ABC stations on the comments of the host of the end of the Night Jimmy Kimmel with “Mafioso” tactics similar to those of Goodfellas, the 1990 gangster film.
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Trump announces a new deadly strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean
Donald Trump announced that the American army had made another deadly strike on a ship in the Caribbean, killing three men on board the ship which, according to Trump, trafficked illicit drugs.
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