{"id":968848,"date":"2025-10-22T10:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968848"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:15:06","slug":"h-1b-visa-fee-sparks-gop-revolt-republicans-and-democrats-oppose-trumps-100000-fee-citing-burden-on-small-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/22\/h-1b-visa-fee-sparks-gop-revolt-republicans-and-democrats-oppose-trumps-100000-fee-citing-burden-on-small-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa fee sparks GOP revolt: Republicans and Democrats oppose Trump\u2019s $100,000 fee citing burden on small tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Republican lawmakers joined Democrats in opposing President Donald Trump\u2019s $100,000 annual fee for H-1B visa applicants, The Wall Street Journal reports, adding to mounting resistance from the tech industry.<\/p>\n<p>Reps. Jay Obernolte (R., Calif.), Maria Salazar (R., Fla.) and Don Bacon (R., Neb.) signed a letter on Tuesday, the news outlet stated, with three Democrats urging President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to reconsider the new fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Republican lawmakers joined Democrats in opposing President Donald Trump\u2019s $100,000 annual fee for H-1B visa applicants, The Wall Street Journal reports, adding to mounting resistance from the tech industry. Reps. Jay Obernolte (R., Calif.), Maria Salazar (R., Fla.) and Don Bacon (R., Neb.) signed a letter on Tuesday, the news outlet stated, with three Democrats urging President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to reconsider the new fee.<\/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":[57,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968848","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=968848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}