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{"id":4359,"date":"2025-01-02T21:15:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T21:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bernie-sanders-elon-musk-is-wrong-on-guest-workers\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T21:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T21:15:36","slug":"bernie-sanders-elon-musk-is-wrong-on-guest-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bernie-sanders-elon-musk-is-wrong-on-guest-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders: \u2018Elon Musk is wrong\u2019 on guest workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders says Elon Musk \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenSanders\/status\/1874918027982172626\" target=\"_blank\"><u>is wrong\u201d when it comes to his support<\/u><\/a> of the H-1B visa program, which allows high-skilled foreigners to legally work in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Musk and fellow Trump adviser Vivek Ramaswamy are \u201cright\u201d that the U.S. needs a skilled and educated workforce, Sanders said in a statement, but the visa program needs \u201cmajor reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe answer is to hire qualified American workers first and to make certain that we have an education system that produces the kind of workforce that our country needs for the jobs of the future,\u201d Sanders (I-Vt.), soon-to-be ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, said. \u201cWe are in desperate need of more doctors, nurses, dentists, teachers, electricians, plumbers, and a host of other professions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Debate over the visa program has rankled allies of Trump in recent days. Tech entrepreneurs have voiced support for the program, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/28\/trump-musk-tech-00196101\" target=\"_blank\"><u>as has Trump himself<\/u><\/a>, while other nationalist conservatives have questioned the continued need to welcome foreign workers into the country.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders, a two-time presidential candidate, has picked his spots with Musk and Trump since the president-elect\u2019s victory for a second term. The Vermont progressive <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenSanders\/status\/1863268770371772863\" target=\"_blank\"><u>wrote in early December<\/u><\/a> that Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency \u2014 which the billionaire is co-chairing with Ramaswamy \u2014 was correct in striving to root out waste, fraud and abuse within the country\u2019s defense spending.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders says Elon Musk \u201cis wrong\u201d when it comes to his support of the H-1B visa program, which allows high-skilled foreigners to legally work in the United States. Musk and fellow Trump adviser Vivek Ramaswamy are \u201cright\u201d that the U.S. needs a skilled and educated workforce, Sanders said in a statement, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}