BREAKING: Labor Secretary Rules Out Eliminating H-1B Program Amid MAGA Calls

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said the law doesn't allow the Trump administration to eliminate H-1B visas. An H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations. When asked by The Daily Signal if eliminating the program—a proposal popular with the MAGA base—is a possibility, Chavez-DeRemer said "I don't think that that's really what's in the law." The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Being evil queen has never been so fun.
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0:09.0	War with the Protestants.
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0:20.1	I'm at the Department of Labor with Secretary Lori Chavez-Daramer. Thank you so much for your time
0:24.6	today. Yeah, thank you for having me. The Labor Department launched Project Firewall to address
0:30.4	H-1B abuses. How many companies has the DOL prosecuted so far for the breach of H-1B program
0:36.8	rules? Yeah, exactly. Project Firewall is our enforcement initiative under the auspice of the Department of Labor for very specific reasons.
0:45.3	And that's to investigate companies for making sure that we're eliminating any waste, fraud, and abuse that are deployed against American workers.
0:56.0	Everything that I do at the Department of Labor is to protect the American workforce.
1:00.0	So we have almost 200 investigations happening now that we have deployed, but
1:06.0	Project Firewall was specific to the H-1B visa program.
1:10.0	We want to make sure that we're not depressing American wages, that we're working very hard
1:15.1	to protect American jobs, and that there is room for an H-1B visa program, but we want
1:20.3	our companies to comply with the law.
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