Donald Trump learned some bad news.
Trump has a crisis on his hands before he even takes office.
And Donald Trump heard one declaration of war that is the worst problem he could imagine.
Elon Musk and Steve Bannon are at each other’s throats over H1B visas.
Tech companies – like Musk’s Tesla – exploit the H1B visa program to import more than 100,000 foreigners per year to work 80 hours a week at below market wages — ultimately displacing American workers.
H1B visa holders can’t negotiate for higher pay because if they get fired, they get deported.
These foreign workers – mainly from India and Communist China – are low-level employees who work for wages that make it impossible for Americans to compete.
How to handle the H1B visa program is now a major flashpoint between two wins of the Trump base.
Musk declared he would “go to war” to keep the H1B visa program in place.
“The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B,” Musk posted on X.
“I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend,” Musk continued.
Former Trump White House chief strategist and current War Room podcast host Steve Bannon didn’t sound intimidated by the world’s richest man threatening to pour money into primaries to defeat Trump-supporting conservatives who want to restrict the corrupt and abusive H1B visa program.
Bannon declared that America First means putting American workers first.
“We’re fighting for something that means something. We have meaning in this. This is why people watch this show. This is why people come to this show and all this great content people provide us,” Bannon declared.
Bannon warned that Musk and the other “tech bros” who jumped on the Trump bandwagon this year because it looked like he was going to win had no right to countermand the agenda that won Trump the White House in 2016 and built the largest political movement in generations.
“Don’t come up and go to the pulpit in your first week here and start lecturing people about the way things are going to be,” Bannon continued. “If you’re going to do that, we’re going to rip your face off.”
“We didn’t come in here in June, and we’re not saying, just cause you came late, no, you can be part of this. But you’re not going to sit here and lie to us, to our face, and expect us to say nothing, because you’re worth $500 billion,” Bannon continued.
Bannon informed Musk that his money didn’t intimidate him just like Nancy Pelosi couldn’t intimidate him with the prospect of jail time.
“You people are taking money. Take money. I don’t care. Bow down and kowtow. I don’t care. I couldn’t care less. I’m a crazy freaking Irishman. And I will never– I didn’t kowtow to Nancy Pelosi, [who] put me in a federal prison for four months and I didn’t care,” Bannon declared.
Bannon said the fight over H1B visas was an existential battle for the future of American society and that there needs to be a complete immigration moratorium until Trump and Congress can come up with an immigration system that benefits American workers first.
“100% moratorium on all immigration until we get this thing sorted!” Bannon exclaimed.
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