Posted on 07/24/2025 11:08:45 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Vice President JD Vance launched a scathing attack on Microsoft Wednesday, questioning the tech giant’s practice of laying off thousands of American workers while simultaneously applying for a significant number of H-1B visas to hire foreign employees. Speaking at a bipartisan event co-hosted by the Hill and Valley Forum, Vance expressed concern over the ethics and economic rationale behind such actions.
“You see some big tech companies where they’ll lay off 9,000 workers, and then they’ll apply for a bunch of overseas visas,” Vance said. “And I sort of wonder; that doesn’t totally make sense to me. That displacement and that math worries me a bit.”
Vance emphasized the administration’s stance on attracting top global talent while prioritizing American workers. “What the president has said, he said very clearly: We want the very best and the brightest to make America their home. We want them to build great companies and so forth. But I don’t want companies to fire 9,000 American workers and then to go and say, ‘We can’t find workers here in America.’ That’s a bullshit story,” Vance asserted.
Microsoft has come under increasing scrutiny for its use of the H-1B visa program, which allows U.S. companies to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. The company announced a wave of layoffs in July, impacting approximately 9,000 employees globally. This follows two earlier rounds of job cuts in May and June, bringing the total number of eliminated positions to nearly 16,000 out of Microsoft’s global headcount of 228,000.
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Now, Vance has made clear that the Trump administration favors Americans driving the future of the economy, not foreign replacements.
The entire H1B program should be ended.
It’s a complete scam.
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He’s right. It is rampant in the tech industry and it shows. Software they produce is junk. It is all about rush to market to be the first with some bells and whistles that do nothing but are cool for the kids to use.
Bkmk
So Vance is completely giving a pass to L1 Visas, which are worse? I know for a fact Microsoft uses.
H1b and school visas are largely a scam but if a company needs some special workers the federal government can charge them some money for the visas (around 50-100 k a year per visa)
If the workers are that great they will pay the fee
Something to think about when Windows updates crash.
Yep!
It destroyed Intel.
All the best people were forced out, joined Apple or Nvidia.
Amen!
Like Canada they’re trying to empty India
Agreed!
End H1B now!
It’s counter productive to the goal and hurts Americans!
You have to read the statute to realize just how much of a scam it is: even if the gov proves the company fraudulently obtained an H1B visa, the visa cannot be revoked.
I read about a company in Dallas that got nailed for fraudulent H1B visas: the fine was $20K per offence, less than what they got paid for obtaining each fraudulent visa.
The whole statute was written by tech company lawyers and handed to some bribed Congressional factotum to submit as a "bill."
Want your severance pay and a recommendation for another similar job you will never get?
Train your smelly replacement!
(drakkar noir smell intensifies)
Vance hits it out of the park again!
Microsoft up over $6.00 a share with Vance publicizing them firing Americans to bring in H-1Bs.
Wasn't Intel more of a DEI - white males not wanted?
Too bad that we don’t control the Executive Branch, Congress and Supreme Court to do something about our Visa system.
Agreed. Would solve this immediately.
” Vance is completely giving a pass to L1 Visas, which are worse? I know for a fact Microsoft uses.”
Vance for ya!
I hope Pete Hegseth will be the next President.
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