{"id":29816,"date":"2025-11-14T16:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=29816"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:12:23","slug":"trump-faces-backlash-after-saying-us-needs-h1b-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/11\/trump-faces-backlash-after-saying-us-needs-h1b-visas","title":{"rendered":"Trump Faces Backlash After Saying US Needs H1B Visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29819\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/11\/trump_H-1B-credit-left-Daniel-Torok-commons.wikimedia.org-right-freepik.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29819\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/11\/trump_H-1B-credit-left-Daniel-Torok-commons.wikimedia.org-right-freepik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Daniel Torok \/ commons.wikimedia.org | Right: Freepik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">President Trump is facing backlash from some of his staunchest supporters after insisting the H1-B Visa program, which admits international immigrants for high-skilled work into the US, is necessary. The President was speaking to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IngrahamAngle\/status\/1988417984197534039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1988417984197534039%7Ctwgr%5Eae68bacd5b7e163b031132286f27f1e52c7ddcb5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christianpost.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-faces-backlash-from-base-for-defending-h-1b-visa-program.html\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">Laura Ingraham on <i>Fox News<\/i><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"> and pushed back when Ingraham criticized the program. She claimed such programs suppress US wages, which Trump agreed with. \u201cbut you also do have to bring in talent,\u201d he added. Ingraham stated there were \u201cplenty of talented people [in the US],\u201d to which the President glibly responded, \u201cNo, you don&#8217;t. No, you don&#8217;t have certain talents, and people have to learn.&#8221; \u201cYou can\u2019t take people off the unemployment line and say, \u2018go make missiles,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">The comments did not sit well with the President\u2019s usual base, particularly given President Trump had vowed to wipe out the program completely when he ran for President in 2016. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who ran in the primary against President Trump in 2024, referred to the H1-B Visa program as a \u201cscam.\u201d Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga, who has often supported the President, pushed back. \u201cI believe in the American people. I am one of you,\u201d she told supporters. \u201cI believe you are good, talented, creative, intelligent, hardworking, and want to achieve. I am solidly against you being replaced by foreign labor, like with H1Bs. I am solidly against allowing foreign students into our colleges and universities, like 600,000 Chinese students, just to financially prop them up. If they fail, they fail. The system in place isn\u2019t helping our young people anyway.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Social media also had a lot to say about the comments. \u201cThis is how you lose your base in a single interview,\u201d wrote one user on <\/span><a style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZacKaizen\/status\/1988434736927182919\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">X<\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">. \u201cWhen you start saying there aren&#8217;t people in the US that can do these jobs, while importing foreign workers that have no experience in those jobs, you are admitting you have no clue what you are talking about.\u201d The White House defended the President\u2019s remarks, pointing at a $100,000 annual fee the administration has vowed to require for companies seeking to obtain an H-1B visa. White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told <\/span><a style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trumps-backing-h-1b-visa-program-exposes-cracks-within-maga-movement\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">Fox News Digital<\/span><\/i><\/a><i style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"> <\/i><span style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">that the President aims to reform the program. \u201cThe Trump administration is protecting American workers by restoring accountability in the H1-B process, ensuring that it is used to bring in only the highest-skilled foreign workers in specialty occupations and not low wage workers that will displace Americans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump is facing backlash from some of his staunchest supporters after insisting the H1-B Visa program, which admits international immigrants for high-skilled work into the US, is necessary. The President was speaking to Laura Ingraham on Fox News and pushed back when Ingraham criticized the program. She claimed such programs suppress US wages, which&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":516,"featured_media":29819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump Faces Backlash After Saying US Needs H1B Visas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Trump sparks backlash from supporters after defending the H1-B visa program, prompting criticism from allies like DeSantis and MTG.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/11\/trump-faces-backlash-after-saying-us-needs-h1b-visas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump Faces Backlash After Saying US Needs H1B Visas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Trump sparks backlash from supporters after defending the H1-B visa program, prompting criticism from allies like DeSantis and MTG.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/11\/trump-faces-backlash-after-saying-us-needs-h1b-visas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Beliefnet News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-14T21:12:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/11\/trump_H-1B-credit-left-Daniel-Torok-commons.wikimedia.org-right-freepik.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cecilia Buchanan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Trump Faces Backlash After Saying US Needs H1B Visas","description":"President Trump sparks backlash from supporters after defending the H1-B visa program, prompting criticism from allies like DeSantis and MTG.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/11\/trump-faces-backlash-after-saying-us-needs-h1b-visas","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Trump Faces Backlash After Saying US Needs H1B Visas","og_description":"President Trump sparks backlash from supporters after defending the H1-B visa program, prompting criticism from allies like DeSantis and MTG.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/11\/trump-faces-backlash-after-saying-us-needs-h1b-visas","og_site_name":"Beliefnet News","article_published_time":"2025-11-14T21:12:23+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":900,"url":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/11\/trump_H-1B-credit-left-Daniel-Torok-commons.wikimedia.org-right-freepik.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Cecilia Buchanan","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/11\/trump-faces-backlash-after-saying-us-needs-h1b-visas","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/11\/trump-faces-backlash-after-saying-us-needs-h1b-visas","name":"Trump Faces Backlash After Saying US Needs H1B Visas","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/11\/trump-faces-backlash-after-saying-us-needs-h1b-visas#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/11\/trump-faces-backlash-after-saying-us-needs-h1b-visas#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/11\/trump_H-1B-credit-left-Daniel-Torok-commons.wikimedia.org-right-freepik.jpg","datePublished":"2025-11-14T21:12:23+00:00","dateModified":"2025-11-14T21:12:23+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/450625ec20bf3e8a84060b9321455f3d"},"description":"President Trump sparks backlash from supporters after defending the H1-B visa program, prompting criticism from allies like DeSantis and MTG.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/11\/trump-faces-backlash-after-saying-us-needs-h1b-visas#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/11\/trump-faces-backlash-after-saying-us-needs-h1b-visas"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/11\/trump-faces-backlash-after-saying-us-needs-h1b-visas#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/11\/trump_H-1B-credit-left-Daniel-Torok-commons.wikimedia.org-right-freepik.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/11\/trump_H-1B-credit-left-Daniel-Torok-commons.wikimedia.org-right-freepik.jpg","width":1200,"height":900,"caption":"Left: Daniel Torok \/ commons.wikimedia.org | Right: Freepik"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/11\/trump-faces-backlash-after-saying-us-needs-h1b-visas#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Trump Faces Backlash After Saying US Needs H1B Visas"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/","name":"Beliefnet News","description":"Top Religious News From Around the World","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/450625ec20bf3e8a84060b9321455f3d","name":"Brandy Grenier","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/e53\/e53f6ea4c6b15081d4df68e2d7d7750ex96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/e53\/e53f6ea4c6b15081d4df68e2d7d7750ex96.jpg","caption":"Brandy Grenier"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/author\/bgrenier"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29822,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29816\/revisions\/29822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}