{"id":963248,"date":"2025-09-20T12:25:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963248"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:06:06","slug":"tariff-on-talent-indian-origin-ex-microsoft-exec-rebukes-trumps-100k-h-1b-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/20\/tariff-on-talent-indian-origin-ex-microsoft-exec-rebukes-trumps-100k-h-1b-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tariff on talent\u2019: Indian-origin ex-Microsoft exec rebukes Trump&#8217;s $100K H-1B plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Nick Pyati, an Indian-origin congressional candidate who worked for Microsoft, rebuked President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order, which adds a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications. The president, on Friday, signed a proclamation announcing his latest immigration move. Pyati said it is a \u2018tariff on talent\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump is already sapping America\u2019s economic strength with a tariff on goods, and now he\u2019s hurting us further with a tariff on talent. There are bright, talented, driven people all over the world, and the United States is fortunate that a lot of them want to be here. Our choice is simple: let them come and make our economy more competitive, or keep them out so they compete against us,&#8221; Pyati said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Nick Pyati, an Indian-origin congressional candidate who worked for Microsoft, rebuked President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order, which adds a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications. The president, on Friday, signed a proclamation announcing his latest immigration move. Pyati said it is a \u2018tariff on talent\u2019. \u201cDonald Trump is already sapping America\u2019s economic strength with a tariff on goods, and now he\u2019s hurting us further with a tariff on talent. There are bright, talented, driven people all over the world, and the United States is fortunate that a lot of them want to be here. Our choice is simple: let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}