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These bright young engineers, scientists & entrepreneurs want to stay in the US to pursue the American dream. But instead they'll now go home to India, China & elsewhere & compete with the US, a country cutting education, science & R&D investments. tRumponomics is helping China, Russia, India, etc.

This $100000 fee for visas is just another international tariff. That's how to look at it.

He just wants a bribe, don’t y’all get it? Get rich and slaughter the poor is his policy agenda.

It brings in bribes if this isn’t shut down in the courts. Totally illegal

And also universities hiring scientists

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LoL, get fucked Big Tech. That said - let's be real: they'll pay these fees because everyone knows this is an extortion racket. They'll either pay the bribe, or work out some other quid pro quo.

with this scumbag you pay to play, our Congress are pansies and look the other way bc he's king, he has been in conflict since he took office

My rural school district sponsors and employees several H1-B visa holders that teach in critical shortage content such as Math, English and Special Ed. I m sure most school districts are unable to cover 100K$ per teacher . This new tariff leaves critical classrooms unmanned, increases class sizes.

Give a mouse a Kimmel…Maybe he’s hoping to skim a % off the top , just like he did when he took 10% of Intel stock ? Saying it’s under the control of his regime… Never happy, that man

nah, they will buy a ton of the dumpsters meme coins and poof a waiver arrives.

I suspect the response of the companies will be to move their companies elsewhere. It's cheaper to move than to pay the fee for even one of these employees.

Please make sure to mention the loophole for companies for whom Kristi Noem deems should receive a waiver for this $100,000 fee. Hmm, that doesn’t seem like an opportunity for discrimination at all.

Companies should just bail on the US until this POS isn’t in charge

Just give him money

I think implying that all half million are high-skilled is a big stretch. A lot of them are paid crap wages and kept in control by their work status already. Like any population, some are skilled, some not at all. This will make most of them unskilled-just paid for.

So exemption is already built in… of course it is

Every - EVERY - tech mogul and senior executive at leading tech companies needs to publicly lambast the insane extortion of $100k from tech companies and future foreign-born entrepreneurs. Microsoft, Apple, OpenAI -- Tesla for god's sake! Bring down the rafters with the screams. No lame complicity!

If the concern is about exploiting foreign labor, why not just require companies to pay H1B visa employees the same wage as American workers? Wait, I know! Because Trump wants the gov to have that money, instead!

Everything is a grift

At least Zuckerberg has been coming up with all these awesome ideas for years all on his own. ;)

He’s already backing down.

The tech bros really believe this regime supports them. 🤷‍♀️

Watch. He's keeping that money

Impeach tRump

The “bribes for exemptions” business is going to skyrocket tho

Yup. Smart move

I bet this puts a big pin in AI, crypto, onshoring manufacturing efforts for little financial gain.

Tech companies hurt? GOOD! Foreign workers hurt? Remove this man from office NOW! US workers hurt? Remove this man from office NOW! Fuck this fascist

Getting what they paid for!

More ass holerie

So Mark and Tim, we all told you that after you bent the knee, he would ask you to break your femurs.

Why not round it up to &300k, make some money

Just another day greasing the palms.

One would hope all the tech bros who backed Trump would maybe think about possibly saying something to Trump about this, but we know they won't

That’s what happens when you kowtow to a fascist dictator. Keep that money flowing to trump tech bros. HEL give you some breaks. And then there’ll be something else in the near future you will have to pay him for. Lol 😂

He never considers collateral / consequential effects.... of his decisions before he makes them. Just a twat.

Exactly! Just like there are exemptions for tarrifs and other policies if you have the $$$. This charge on H1B visas will not be imposed evenly. There's no way that the oligarchs who are funding this administration would allow this unless it was ultimately in their interest.

It will hurt technical advancements, health research, and future world-class physicians. It will be devastating to this country in so many ways. But, after reading P 2025, I realize, that is the very point of it all.

I wonder how many would move to #canada🇨🇦

The problem is that the new regulation states that the $100K fee can be waived if the Sec. of State decides that it is in the US best interests to waive it for those companies what have essential contracts as a matter of discretion.

No, the Trump regime have built in exemptions at the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security that allow it to reward "loyal" companies. And the authoritarian grip gets a little tighter. bsky.app/profile/fili...

Fuck tech companies. Sure, maybe this won't work because it will be corrupt just like he usually does. If it actually stops companies from having their indentured servants, then great. Even if it does nothing it will still be his least harmful action. I'll hope for the best.

Oh, no! Terrible tech billionaires are being shaken down again by the con man they bought a presidency for. There's your crime wave.