{"id":986397,"date":"2026-01-19T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986397"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:22:46","slug":"key-trump-ally-says-h-1b-visa-is-abused-blames-foreign-workers-for-job-losses-cheap-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/19\/key-trump-ally-says-h-1b-visa-is-abused-blames-foreign-workers-for-job-losses-cheap-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Trump ally says H-1B visa is abused; blames foreign workers for job losses, cheap labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key Trump ally and junior senator from Missouri, Eric Schmitt, blamed the H1-B visa program and foreign workers for job losses in the US. In a fiery statement on Ryan James Girdusky&#8217;s podcast, the Republican further added that the American people are \u2018being lied to\u2019 and foreign workers are \u2018more compliant\u2019 and cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt&#8217;s claims were made approximately a month after the Trump administration initiated enhanced screening of H-1B and its dependent H-4 visa applicants, including social media profile checks for applicants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Trump ally and junior senator from Missouri, Eric Schmitt, blamed the H1-B visa program and foreign workers for job losses in the US. In a fiery statement on Ryan James Girdusky&#8217;s podcast, the Republican further added that the American people are \u2018being lied to\u2019 and foreign workers are \u2018more compliant\u2019 and cheaper. Schmitt&#8217;s claims were made approximately a month after the Trump administration initiated enhanced screening of H-1B and its dependent H-4 visa applicants, including social media profile checks for applicants.<\/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-986397","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\/986397","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=986397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}