Vance calls “bull” on H-1B; Where is the bill, Congress?

The Microsoft story our Digital Marketing team has been sharing caught the Vice President’s attention, prompting him to comment:

“I don’t want companies to fire 9,000 American workers, and then to go and say ‘We can’t find workers here in America’. That’s a “bull****” story.”

— — — Vice President J.D. Vance

Where is the bill?

Congress has introduced several of NumbersUSA’s Great Immigration Solutions bills in 2025, but NONE to curtail the H-1B program. 

Keep the pressure on Congress. Tell them to cut H-1Bs!

Bring back the American Tech Workforce Act

Back in 2022, then-representative Jim Banks introduced the American Tech Workforce Act, a Great Solutions bill, that would:

• Create a wage floor for H-1B visas set at the higher of the annual wage last paid to an American worker who filled the position or $110,000 (adjusted for inflation).
• Create a true marketplace where eligible visa applications are awarded based on the highest bidder.
• Eliminate the Optional Practical Training program that allows certain foreigners that came to the U.S. under a student visa and have graduated to work in the U.S. for up to three years if they have a STEM degree and allows their employers to avoid paying payroll taxes on the visa-holder’s wages.
• Limits the ability of Big Tech firms to contract with third-party companies to fill spots with H-1B recipients sponsored by the third-party company by limiting the maximum validity period of the visas to 1 year.

The Executive Branch can address some of the problems related to the H-1B program, but only Congress can permanently address the core problems.

Former Labor Secretary Ray Marshall described the H-1B visa program as “one of the best con jobs ever done on the American public and political systems.”

H-1B watchdog Professor Norman Matloff concludes: “The H-1B program was deliberately set up to hire younger, cheaper foreign workers in lieu of older, more expensive Americans.“