{"id":965574,"date":"2025-10-01T12:40:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965574"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:10:44","slug":"2-biggest-tech-firms-ceos-called-h-1b-visa-system-bizarre-claims-trump-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/01\/2-biggest-tech-firms-ceos-called-h-1b-visa-system-bizarre-claims-trump-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"2 biggest tech firms&#8217; CEOs called H-1B visa system \u2018bizarre\u2019, claims Trump aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United States commerce secretary Howard Lutnick has said that heads of two top tech companies said to him that the existing H-1B visa lottery system for skilled workers was \u201cbizarre\u201d. The top Trump aide&#8217;s remarks came as he hinted at more changes to the H-1B visa allocation rules.<\/p>\n<p>Lutnick said that the lottery \u201cdoes not make any sense\u201d, and hinted that talks are underway on whether it should be there or not. \u201cI mean why when you\u2019re trying to take in skilled workers would you do it by a lottery?\u201d the commerce secretary asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States commerce secretary Howard Lutnick has said that heads of two top tech companies said to him that the existing H-1B visa lottery system for skilled workers was \u201cbizarre\u201d. The top Trump aide&#8217;s remarks came as he hinted at more changes to the H-1B visa allocation rules. Lutnick said that the lottery \u201cdoes not make any sense\u201d, and hinted that talks are underway on whether it should be there or not. \u201cI mean why when you\u2019re trying to take in skilled workers would you do it by a lottery?\u201d the commerce secretary asked.<\/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-965574","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\/965574","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=965574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}