New visa policy pits Team Trump against itself
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, just leave on work now. Sorry, it's a bit loud. |
| 0:03.3 | Um, basically, so I was thinking we could get Macies tonight. Had a big Mac on my mind all day. And delivery fee on the app is now from 99P. So you win? Of course you are. Love you. Bye. Exclusively on the McDonald's app. 18 plus, service fee and small order fee may apply. Participating restaurants. Serving times and teas and seas apply. The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Rogers News. |
| 0:26.9 | The country would rather not have to pay $100,000. |
| 0:31.4 | But they'd rather, how do you do that? |
| 0:33.9 | You hire American. |
| 0:34.9 | So there's an incentive to hire American. |
| 0:37.2 | But there may be instances |
| 0:38.5 | where it's better off doing, through expertise or whatever it may be. But they're both unbelievable, |
| 0:43.9 | whether it's the gold card or anything else that we talked about today. |
| 0:49.9 | What do Tesla's Elon Musk, Google's Sundar-Pichaiai and Microsoft's Satyat Nadala have in common? |
| 0:58.4 | They're all titans of technology. They all employ hundreds of thousands of people and enjoy eye-watering salaries. |
| 1:05.7 | But they have also benefited from a document known as the H-1B visa. |
| 1:11.6 | But at the weekend, US President Donald Trump imposed a $100,000 fee on these applications, |
| 1:18.6 | which will make it harder and certainly more expensive for these tech giants to hire the best and brightest minds in the world. |
| 1:26.6 | But more importantly, the tightening of this immigration |
| 1:30.5 | is rubbing up against the agenda of the tech bros in Silicon Valley. |
| 1:35.5 | They have a completely conflicting agenda. |
| 1:38.7 | How will this fight play out? |
| 1:40.9 | What will tech giants do if they can't hire the best minds? And can other countries benefit from a |
| 1:47.7 | US clampdown? All of this and more in this week's viewsroom. It's Amy. And it's Jonathan. And |
| 1:55.9 | it's the views room, the weekly podcast that delves into the naughtiest issues in corporate finance, |
| 2:00.2 | business and economics with a crack team of breaking views columnists. So we had a pretty chaotic weekend. At first, |
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