Posted on 04/18/2017 7:23:18 AM PDT by Enlightened1
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order in Wisconsin on Tuesday directing a government-wide review aimed at putting new teeth back into decades-old “Buy American” and “Hire American” directives.
The 220-day review process, which could lead to additional executive orders and possibly legislation, will focus on preventing foreign workers with H-1B visas from, as one senior administration official put it, “undercutting American labor at less cost,” which the official labeled as “an abuse” of the current system.
“This is a clear statement from the president of the United States to shore up some of these abuses,” the official continued. The goal, the official said, is ensuring that “everyone can have a realistic path to economic success and full employment.”
In addition to the visa program, federal agencies will be asked to review and minimize the use of waivers and exceptions to Buy American policies as well as assess the degree to which waivers included in free-trade agreements have hurt American workers.
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This is going to upset the cheap labor express.
Go President Trump!!!
“Finally targeted”? Finally?? The man has only been President for a few months - he’s getting a lot done!
Why not kill the H-1B visa or put it on hold for 5 years and lets see if there really is a labor shortage. There is only a wage shortage.
Does this mean I won’t have to try and understand what the H*** the tech on the other end is saying.
Great but why does it have to be done with a EO, why doesn’t the Congress do it?
“directing a government-wide review”...”The 220-day review process, which could lead to additional executive orders and possibly legislation”
Article only says they will take 220 days to “study the problem”. I’m not going to get excited yet.
Congress seems to be COMPLETELY sold out to globalists.
All of them. GOP and democrats. Everyone.
Our system is very, very sold out, especially to China.
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order in Wisconsin on Tuesday
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I wonder if this is a slap in the face to Paul Ryan.
“Great but why does it have to be done with a EO”
Sure seems like we are being governed by EO’s and activist judges. It’s not supposed to be this way.
When is he going to stop the illegal DACA program?
Over 11,000 new illegal aliens have been given work permits since he took office and 49,000 have been given renewals.
Odds are, no. If STEM grads knew they would get jobs that support them when they complete the program, they'll become much more serious about doing the very best they can.
The other piece is to drop Affirmative Action in hiring. That would even the playing field, and incentivize everyone to excel.
Isn't it amazing how the left is pushing for the big, complicated items, be done at once. Had President trump not been so pressed to pass a healthcare bill, the complete repeal of a really complicated mess, obamacare, will take months to clear up, and with his party behind him rather than split....we might have had a good bill the first time.
Karnage, you hit the nail on its head!
Those jobs mean monies going to the state and Federal coffers...a win, win.
Gotta get rid of that debt...and straighten out the trade issues.
Now that's funny, congress doing something for the legitimate citizens of our United States of America.
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True... especially when bleeding heart ivanka is running the joint.
This EO is only initiating a review process:
“President Donald Trump will sign an executive order in Wisconsin on Tuesday directing a government-wide review”
A really great place to start would be sourcing any “Trump” branded products the family can dictate production of from US manufacturers.
I think that would be bigleague win from a PR standpoint!
It will apparently be a 220 day study. That takes it to the end of the year.
I smell establishment delay tactics at work.
We need to free the H1Bs to compete with the rest of us on equal terms and charge companies more to apply for H1B visas for foreign workers. Then we'll see how much of a "shortage of skilled labor" there really is.
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