Many high-profile members of Donald Trump’s MAGA base turned on him Tuesday after he defended the H-1B visa program — which helps U.S. firms rent overseas staff for specialised, high-skilled roles — throughout an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham.
Ingraham pressed Trump on whether or not reforming this system, usually criticized by the president’s “America First” mantra followers, could be a precedence. “If you wish to elevate wages for American staff,” she mentioned, “you may’t flood the nation with tens of hundreds or tons of of hundreds of overseas staff.”
Trump replied: “Nicely, I agree, however you additionally do have to herald expertise.”
“We’ve loads of gifted folks right here,” Ingraham responded.
“No, you don’t. No, you don’t,” Trump insisted. “You don’t have sure abilities, and other people should study. You’ll be able to’t take folks off an unemployment line and say, ‘I’m going to place you right into a manufacturing unit, we’re going to make missiles.’”
“It doesn’t work that means,” he added, additional backing the visa whose price he has sought to dramatically increase to $100,000 yearly.
Trump was accused of betraying his MAGA motion together with his comment:
