President Trump on Friday signed a proclamation requiring corporations to pay an annual price of $100,000 to acquire H-1B visas.
After the signing, President Trump sparred with a number of reporters.
Ebony McMorris acquired a prickly response from Trump after she tried to forcefully ask a query with out being known as on first.
“Quiet! You’re actually obnoxious!” Trump stated to Ebony McMorris.
“What about your plans…” the reporter shouted as Trump pushed again: “You’re actually obnoxious. I’m not gonna speak to you till I name on you.”
“Go forward,” Trump nodded to ABC’s Jon Karl.
“I really wanna settle this free speech query since you’ve stated that you simply’ve restored free speech in America,” Jon Karl stated. “Is that free speech, together with for people who find themselves harshly vital of you in your political opponents – individuals who say stuff you don’t like…”
Trump blasted Jon Karl and ABC Information.
“I’ve develop into resistant to it. There’s by no means been an individual that’s had extra unfair publicity than me and that’s why your community made me $15 million or $16 million to be precise – George Slopadopoulos and that’s why CBS paid me some huge cash too,” Trump stated.
“Trump continued, “And that’s why I sued the New York Occasions two days in the past for some huge cash – properly, I’m successful the instances and the rationale why I’m successful is since you’re responsible, Jon!”
“ABC is a horrible community, a really unfair community and you have to be ashamed of your self. NBC is equally dangerous….and so that you can stand there and act so harmless and ask me a query like that however you paid an enormous worth since you had been dishonest..” Trump stated.
“You’re not a beautiful particular person. Frankly, you’re a horrible reporter – you realize it and so do I,” Trump added.
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JUST IN: President Trump tells reporter to ‘quiet’ down earlier than ripping aside ABC reporter Jonathan Karl.
“Quiet. You’re actually obnoxious.”
“You’re not a beautiful particular person. Frankly, you’re a horrible reporter.” pic.twitter.com/QXUvQipqQY
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 19, 2025
Watch the signing right here:
Learn the complete proclamation from the White Home:
The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to convey short-term staff into the US to carry out additive, high-skilled capabilities, however it has been intentionally exploited to switch, somewhat than complement, American staff with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor. The massive-scale alternative of American staff by systemic abuse of this system has undermined each our financial and nationwide safety. Some employers, utilizing practices now broadly adopted by complete sectors, have abused the H-1B statute and its laws to artificially suppress wages, leading to a disadvantageous labor marketplace for Americans, whereas on the identical time making it harder to draw and retain the very best expert subset of short-term staff, with the most important influence seen in vital science, expertise, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.
The variety of overseas STEM staff in the US has greater than doubled between 2000 and 2019, rising from 1.2 million to virtually 2.5 million, whereas total STEM employment has solely elevated 44.5 p.c throughout that point. Amongst laptop and math occupations, the overseas share of the workforce grew from 17.7 p.c in 2000 to 26.1 p.c in 2019. And the important thing facilitator for this inflow of overseas STEM labor has been the abuse of the H-1B visa.
Info expertise (IT) corporations particularly have prominently manipulated the H-1B system, considerably harming American staff in computer-related fields. The share of IT staff within the H-1B program grew from 32 p.c in Fiscal 12 months (FY) 2003 to a mean of over 65 p.c within the final 5 fiscal years. As well as, a number of the most prolific H-1B employers at the moment are constantly IT outsourcing corporations. Utilizing these H 1B-reliant IT outsourcing corporations gives vital financial savings for employers: one examine of tech staff confirmed a 36 p.c low cost for H-1B “entry-level” positions as in comparison with full-time, conventional staff. To reap the benefits of artificially low labor prices incentivized by this system, corporations shut their IT divisions, hearth their American workers, and outsource IT jobs to lower-paid overseas staff.
Additional, the abuse of the H-1B visa program has made it much more difficult for faculty graduates looking for IT jobs, permitting employers to rent overseas staff at a big low cost to American staff. These results of abuse of H-1B visas have coincided with rising challenges within the labor market through which H-1B staff serve. Based on a examine from the Federal Reserve Financial institution of New York, amongst faculty graduates ages 22 to 27, laptop science and laptop engineering majors are dealing with a number of the highest unemployment charges within the nation at 6.1 p.c and seven.5 p.c, respectively — greater than double the unemployment charges of latest biology and artwork historical past graduates. Current information reveals that unemployment charges amongst staff in laptop occupations jumped from a mean of 1.98 p.c in 2019 to three.02 p.c in 2025.
Stories additionally point out that many American tech corporations have laid off their certified and extremely expert American staff and concurrently employed 1000’s of H-1B staff. One software program firm was authorised for over 5,000 H-1B staff in FY 2025; across the identical time, it introduced a collection of layoffs totaling greater than 15,000 workers. One other IT agency was authorised for practically 1,700 H-1B staff in FY 2025; it introduced it was shedding 2,400 American staff in Oregon in July. A 3rd firm has decreased its workforce by roughly 27,000 American staff since 2022, whereas being authorised for over 25,000 H-1B staff since FY 2022. A fourth firm reportedly eradicated 1,000 jobs in February; it was authorised for over 1,100 H-1B staff for FY 2025.
American IT staff have reported they had been compelled to coach the overseas staff who had been taking their jobs and to signal nondisclosure agreements about this indignity as a situation of receiving any type of severance. This implies H-1B visas are usually not getting used to fill occupational shortages or get hold of extremely expert staff who’re unavailable in the US.
The excessive numbers of comparatively low-wage staff within the H-1B program undercut the integrity of this system and are detrimental to American staff’ wages and labor alternatives, particularly on the entry degree, in industries the place such low-paid H-1B staff are concentrated. These abuses additionally stop American employers in different industries from using the H-1B program within the method through which it was supposed: to fill jobs for which extremely expert and educated American staff are unavailable.
The abuse of the H-1B program can also be a nationwide safety menace. Home legislation enforcement companies have recognized and investigated H-1B-reliant outsourcing corporations for partaking in visa fraud, conspiracy to launder cash, conspiracy beneath the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and different illicit actions to encourage overseas staff to return to the US.
Additional, abuses of the H-1B program current a nationwide safety menace by discouraging Individuals from pursuing careers in science and expertise, risking American management in these fields. A 2017 examine confirmed that wages for American laptop scientists would have been 2.6 p.c to five.1 p.c larger and employment in laptop science for American staff would have been 6.1 p.c to 10.8 p.c larger in 2001 absent the importation of overseas staff into the pc science discipline.
It’s subsequently essential to impose larger prices on corporations searching for to make use of the H-1B program in an effort to deal with the abuse of that program whereas nonetheless allowing corporations to rent one of the best of one of the best short-term overseas staff.
The extreme harms that the large-scale abuse of this program has inflicted on our financial and nationwide safety calls for a direct response. I subsequently discover that the unrestricted entry into the US of sure overseas staff who’re described in part 1 of this proclamation could be detrimental to the pursuits of the US as a result of such entry would hurt American staff, together with by undercutting their wages.
Accordingly, by the authority vested in me as President by the Structure and the legal guidelines of the US of America, it’s hereby ordered:
Part 1. Restriction on Entry. (a) Pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), the entry into the US of aliens as nonimmigrants to carry out companies in a specialty occupation beneath part 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), is restricted, aside from these aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a fee of $100,000 — topic to the exceptions set forth in subsection (c) of this part. This restriction shall expire, absent extension, 12 months after the efficient date of this proclamation, which shall be 12:01 a.m. japanese daylight time on September 21, 2025.
(b) The Secretary of Homeland Safety shall prohibit selections on petitions not accompanied by a $100,000 fee for H-1B specialty occupation staff beneath part 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the INA, who’re at the moment exterior the US, for 12 months following the efficient date of this proclamation as set forth in subsection (a) of this part. The Secretary of State shall additionally subject steerage, as obligatory and to the extent permitted by legislation, to forestall misuse of B visas by alien beneficiaries of authorised H-1B petitions which have an employment begin date starting previous to October 1, 2026.
(c) The restriction imposed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this part shall not apply to any particular person alien, all aliens working for a corporation, or all aliens working in an trade, if the Secretary of Homeland Safety determines, within the Secretary’s discretion, that the hiring of such aliens to be employed as H-1B specialty occupation staff is within the nationwide curiosity and doesn’t pose a menace to the safety or welfare of the US.
Sec. 2. Compliance. (a) Employers shall, previous to submitting an H-1B petition on behalf of an alien exterior the US, get hold of and retain documentation exhibiting that the fee described in part 1 of this proclamation has been made.
(b) The Secretary of State shall confirm receipt of fee of the quantity described in part 1 of this proclamation in the course of the H-1B visa petition course of and shall approve solely these visa petitions for which the submitting employer has made the fee described in part 1 of this proclamation.
(c) The Division of Homeland Safety and the Division of State shall coordinate to take all obligatory and applicable motion to implement this proclamation and to disclaim entry to the US to any H-1B nonimmigrant for whom the potential employer has not made the fee described in part 1 of this proclamation.
Sec. 3. Scope and Implementation of Restriction on Entry. (a) The restriction on entry pursuant to part 1 of this proclamation shall apply solely to aliens who enter or try and enter the US after the efficient date of this proclamation as set forth in part 1(a) of this proclamation.
(b) No later than 30 days following the completion of the H-1B lottery that instantly follows this proclamation, the Secretary of State, the Lawyer Normal, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Homeland Safety shall collectively undergo the President, by the Assistant to the President and Homeland Safety Advisor, a advice on whether or not an extension or renewal of the restriction on entry pursuant to part 1 of this proclamation is within the pursuits of the US.
Sec. 4. Amending the Prevailing Wage Ranges. (a) The Secretary of Labor shall provoke a rulemaking to revise the prevailing wage ranges to ranges in step with the coverage objectives of this proclamation in step with part 212(n) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1182(n).
(b) The Secretary of Homeland Safety shall provoke a rulemaking to prioritize the admission as nonimmigrants of high-skilled and high-paid aliens, in step with sections 101, 212, and 214 of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1101, 1182, and 1184.
Sec. 5. Normal Provisions. (a) Nothing on this proclamation shall be construed to impair or in any other case have an effect on:
(i) the authority granted by legislation to an government division or company, or the top thereof; or
(ii) the capabilities of the Director of the Workplace of Administration and Price range regarding budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This proclamation shall be applied in step with relevant legislation and topic to the supply of appropriations.
(c) This proclamation isn’t supposed to, and doesn’t, create any proper or profit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at legislation or in fairness by any social gathering towards the US, its departments, companies, or entities, its officers, workers, or brokers, or another particular person.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I’ve hereunto set my hand this
nineteenth day of September, within the 12 months of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the US of America the 2 hundred and fiftieth.
DONALD J. TRUMP
