Days after Donald Trump defended the H-1B visa programme, Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said she was introducing a bill to end "the mass replacement of American workers by aggressively phasing out the H1B programme". Actions against the H-1B programme bode ill for Indian professionals, who are the biggest beneficiary of the temporary work visa. The H-1B is also used as a pathway to American citizenship, through the Green Card route.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the GOP leader, accused US firms of abusing the programme to undermine the benefits for American workers.

"Big Tech, AI giants, hospitals, and industries across the board have abused the H-1B system to cut out our own people," she said in a post on X on Thursday (US time).

"Americans are the most talented people

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