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A day after US President Donald Trump defended the H-1B visa programme, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the “vision” is to bring in skilled overseas workers who train Americans and then go back home.

“The President’s vision here is to bring in overseas workers, where these jobs went, who have the skills. Three, five, seven years to train the US workers, then they can go home. The US workers fully take over,” Bessent said in an interview to Fox News on Wednesday.

Bessent was asked about Trump’s latest remarks on the H-1B visa programme, where the President said America has to bring in talent since it does not have “certain talents”.

Bessent said that for 20-30 years, the US has offshored precision manufacturing jobs. “And the President’s point here is, again,

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