While this is good news, let's hold back on the celebration. Ms Greene who introduced the bill has resigned, so this bill likely will not go anywhere.

However, it is making news, and people are taking notice and maybe there will be someone bold and non-corrupt who will take this or create a new bill to completely remove H1B.

When the tech job market is so bad in the US right now, even one job going to an H1B hurts Americans. And we are bringing in 85,000 more foreigners to compete with us?

In 2028, I will vote for the person who says he/she will eliminate H1Bs. Yes, even if it is a Democrat. Trump has taken some good steps but we are already 1 year into his administration and progress has been painfully slow. Lots of talk and very little action.


Bill To 'Eliminate' H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress
https://www.newsweek.com/eliminate-h1b-visa-program-congress-bill-marjorie-taylor-greene-11312655
Jan 06, 2026 at 03:47 AM EST

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A bill that would "eliminate the H-1B program," which helps U.S. companies hire highly skilled foreign workers, was among Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's final two final pieces of proposed legislation, new records show.

The Republican of Georgia introduced the bill and another to mandate "photo identification and proof of United States citizenship to vote in Federal elections" on Friday.
She served her final day in Congress for Georgia's 14th district on Monday, following her a high-profile break with President Donald Trump over issues such as health care, the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files and foreign policy.

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Why It Matters
The H1-B visa program has been under heavy scrutiny during President Trump's second term.
In September, Trump ordered a controversial $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas, sparking ongoing legal challenges. In court papers, Trump's administration argued the substantial increase is necessary to protect American jobs and fund border security, while criticsincluding some business groups, educators and state governmentswarned it would stifle innovation, competitiveness, and specialized fields like artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and medicine.

Greene's bill goes one step further than the government's position, seeking to end the program entirely.

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The clash brings to the forefront the challenges Trump faces as he seeks to balance economic pragmatism with the "America First" sentiments of his political base, which Greene has argued are being ignored by Trump's administration.

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HollywoodBQ said:

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The scam definitely needs to end.

Are there any other sponsors or is it like the Puerto Rico Statehood bills that get introduced every session with about 8-9 supporters and ultimately go nowhere.

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The news came out yesterday so I did not see if there were any others. I think this bill will ultimately die down but the issue will linger on and someone else will come up with a bill. Let us see what happens.

I am not holding my breath about this one but it is some movement in the right direction.

Why not just make it something like:

Any company with more than 3000 employees can not have more than 0.20% of their total workforce ployees on Visas. Companies 1-500 can have 2. Companies 500 to 3000 can have up to 5.


Doesn't completley eliminate it, but makes it far less common.

Time to get qualified Americans back working and stop using cheap, half ass labor from another country.

Infosys, NTT, TATA, etc etc burning up the phone lines to DC right now to promise lawmakers big bucks to keep the sewage line open for H1Bs.

Just like the H-1Bs, I work with.

I had to do my own homework to figure out the answer.

H.R.6937 - is introduced with no Co Sponsors
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6937

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Official Title as Introduced
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the H-1B program, and for other purposes.

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One thing I learned. I didn't know MTG was from Georgia. I assumed she was from Florida.
https://www.congress.gov/member/marjorie-greene/G000596

I'm all for limiting H1-B's, but eliminating it altogether doesn't make sense. We have had H1-B's and other education visa employees work for me. The education/training visa's are for college kids from foreign countries, like Vietnam, India, etc. In all seriousness, most of our engineering intern hires that came with those visa's were really good full-time hires. They eventually received green cards or full citizenship going through the normal citizenship process.

The H1-B's we've had have been limited, but great to work with. In order to hire an H1-B, you have to post the job in public places first in order to demonstrate whether there were any candidates that were equal or more qualified for the job. This is where a lot of corruption creeps in, job postings in places no American would know about. We post on Indeed, LinkedIn, etc. well before we give a chance to an H1-B candidate. Sometimes, an H1-B is just better qualified and a better fit for the work than an unqualified US citizen.

H-1Bs of themselves are not the problem, not for a few select talented individuals. It is the scale implemented by corporations.

Anyone else waiting to see if Elon and every other tech bro who uses H1Bs jumps in to support this? Maybe a tweet from Vivek too?

Any fix for h1b will have to address 2 situations:
1) True shortages of specific skillsets
2) Abuse of the program to lower wages

The fix for #1 should address the short term needs as well as the root cause. Fixing #2 would allow salaries to reach market equilibrium (increase), which would address what I believe is a root cause for #1. It may also require investment (using fees from employers) in scholarships, graduate research funding, training, etc.

H1-B's serve a purpose and are needed, but they should not be used to import 100k+ foreign nationals in order to reduce labor costs. The H1-B visa is for "Specialty Occupations" which, by it's own nature, should limit the quantity of visas required.

As I have stated in multiple other threads, if a company needs a crap ton of foreign labor for whatever purpose then that company should open shop where that labor is located and minimize the risk of introducing a "invasive species" (using a botanical definition for emphasise purpose only) to our local communities.

It's wild that US companies want to export production but import labor. How is that sustainable economically?

McNasty said:

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Any fix for h1b will have to address 2 situations:
1) True shortages of specific skillsets
2) Abuse of the program to lower wages

The fix for #1 should address the short term needs as well as the root cause. Fixing #2 would allow salaries to reach market equilibrium (increase), which would address what I believe is a root cause for #1. It may also require investment (using fees from employers) in scholarships, graduate research funding, training, etc.

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In 99% of occupations we have no shortage, especially with millions of out of work Americans

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I'm all for limiting H1-B's, but eliminating it altogether doesn't make sense. We have had H1-B's and other education visa employees work for me. The education/training visa's are for college kids from foreign countries, like Vietnam, India, etc. In all seriousness, most of our engineering intern hires that came with those visa's were really good full-time hires. They eventually received green cards or full citizenship going through the normal citizenship process.

The H1-B's we've had have been limited, but great to work with. In order to hire an H1-B, you have to post the job in public places first in order to demonstrate whether there were any candidates that were equal or more qualified for the job. This is where a lot of corruption creeps in, job postings in places no American would know about. We post on Indeed, LinkedIn, etc. well before we give a chance to an H1-B candidate. Sometimes, an H1-B is just better qualified and a better fit for the work than an unqualified US citizen.

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H1Bs are grossly abused by corps and the current program is riddled with holes. From a program to get smalrt people, it is now a jobs program for Indian middle class brats.

Hence the indignant "what about my American dream??" squeals - not from Indianapolis, but from India.

The only way out is to completely shut down the program for a few years, AND to work on a new program to bring in smart people in reasonable numbers. Just because one is smart, it doesn't mean he/she has a right to America either.

This is the only workable solution. Fixing H1B won't work as no one except Indians know how all the loopholes work.

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Anyone else waiting to see if Elon and every other tech bro who uses H1Bs jumps in to support this? Maybe a tweet from Vivek too?

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Elon is a charlatan. He came out for H1B and said he would go to war about it, around the same time as Vivek made his post. But then Elon got away and Vivek got pilloried, for obvious reasons.

Then Elon went rogue on Trump. Now he is back to licking Trump's boots because Trump can, royally shaft him if he so chooses. It is win-win if they get back together again, but Elon stood to lose a lot. Now Elon wants to make sure his slave program won't completely die, so fighting with Trump was a bad idea.

McNasty said:

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Any fix for h1b will have to address 2 situations:
1) True shortages of specific skillsets
2) Abuse of the program to lower wages

The fix for #1 should address the short term needs as well as the root cause. Fixing #2 would allow salaries to reach market equilibrium (increase), which would address what I believe is a root cause for #1. It may also require investment (using fees from employers) in scholarships, graduate research funding, training, etc.

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At my previous company, I worked with a Technical Project Manager woman from India who was on H1B. I looked her up on the h1b database and she was the only employee of that company residing in that town so I found her profile though her name wasn't there. She made $102k. In the Bay Area. My wife does something similar with about similar years experience and makes MUCH more as a US citizen in the middle of the country.

102k in the Bay Area is peanuts. If my wife moved to the Bay, she would make around 200k. That is how US corps lower wages.

IDaggie06 said:

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Why not just make it something like:

Any company with more than 3000 employees can not have more than 0.20% of their total workforce ployees on Visas. Companies 1-500 can have 2. Companies 500 to 3000 can have up to 5.


Doesn't completley eliminate it, but makes it far less common.

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I would rather market forces settle this, but make concentration much more expensive.

Something like and annual fee that doubles for every additional H1-B employee.

Maybe make the fee you pay follow a Fibonacci sequence. So, first employee is $1k, second is $2k, third is $3k, 4th is $5k. You get to around $12 million by the time you hit 50. You get to more wealth than has ever been owned in the history of mankind by the time you hit 100.

It would be easy to have a company with a small number of H1-B's. It would be excruciatingly expensive to have a lot of them.

Limit the foreign hires to the irreplaceable top 2%. The remaining 98% of jobs should be filled by Americans with STEM degrees. The corporations claiming they can't find enough Americans with specialized skills are looking to decrease labor costs by gaming the H-1B visa system.