After Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy made posts on the social platform X this week endorsing an expansion of the visa program for hiring foreign-born highly skilled workers, the two tech billionaires faced backlash from supporters of President-elect Donald Trump over how that program would operate within the new administration’s immigration agenda.
Musk and Ramaswamy, who are set to lead Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency next year, celebrated companies using H-1B visas to hire workers, which is a program that allows employers to hire nonimmigrant foreign-born workers in specialty occupations, giving those workers access to a visa as a condition of their job position.
