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Trump says H-1B visa program is ‘great’ amid MAGA feud over tech workers — ‘I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them. I have many H-1B visas on my properties.’

Trump allies, including Elon Musk, vigorously defended the program to other MAGA adherents this week.

President-elect Donald Trump weighed in on a simmering feud among MAGA allies over H-1B worker visas, telling the New York Post that he supports the program, according to the outlet. Separately,Ramaswamy, who is partnering with Musk to lead Trump’s nongovernmental Department of Government Efficiency, argued in a post to X that he hopes American culture again prioritizes “hard work over laziness.” Ramaswamy also said in a post to X on Friday that the H-1B visa program “is badly broken & should be replaced with one that focuses on selecting the very best of the best (not a lottery), pro-competitive (no indentured service to one company), and de-bureaucratized.”

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