{"id":974004,"date":"2025-11-14T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974004"},"modified":"2025-11-14T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:51:08","slug":"us-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-responds-to-donald-trump-backing-h-1b-visa-program-says-an-american-cant-have-that-job-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/14\/us-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-responds-to-donald-trump-backing-h-1b-visa-program-says-an-american-cant-have-that-job-not\/","title":{"rendered":"US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent responds to Donald Trump backing H-1B visa program, says: An American can\u2019t have that job, not &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Donald Trump administration is repositioning the H-1B visa program to bring in skilled foreign workers on a temporary basis to train Americans for high-tech roles, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview aired this week. Bessent\u2019s comments follow President Donald Trump\u2019s recent acknowledgment that the US must still attract specialised foreign talent in certain fields &#8212; despite his administration\u2019s otherwise hard-line immigration posture. H-1B visas allow American companies to hire highly skilled foreign workers for up to six years.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Fox News host Brian Kilmeade had two word description for America&#8217;s need for foreign workers. Bessent described the revamped H-1B approach as a \u201cknowledge transfer\u201d strategy aimed at rebuilding America\u2019s advanced manufacturing base after decades of offshoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Donald Trump administration is repositioning the H-1B visa program to bring in skilled foreign workers on a temporary basis to train Americans for high-tech roles, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview aired this week. Bessent\u2019s comments follow President Donald Trump\u2019s recent acknowledgment that the US must still attract specialised foreign talent in certain fields &#8212; despite his administration\u2019s otherwise hard-line immigration posture. H-1B visas allow American companies to hire highly skilled foreign workers for up to six years. Speaking to Fox News host Brian Kilmeade had two word description for America&#8217;s need for foreign workers. Bessent described [&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":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974004","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=974004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}