Days after former U.S. President Donald Trump publicly defended the H-1B visa program, Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced plans to introduce legislation aimed at phasing out the system entirely.
In a statement released Thursday, Greene said her upcoming bill seeks to eliminate the H-1B program, which she claims has enabled U.S. companies—particularly in technology, healthcare, engineering, and manufacturing—to replace American workers with lower-cost foreign labor. “Big Tech, AI giants, hospitals, and industries across the board have abused the H-1B system to cut out our own people,” she wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Greene said the proposed legislation would put American workers first in sectors critical to national infrastructure. While the bill calls for the complete elimination of the H-1B system, it includes a temporary exemption allowing 10,000 visas annually for medical professionals. This carve-out would be phased out over 10 years to give the U.S. time to strengthen its domestic healthcare workforce.
The announcement comes shortly after Trump expressed his continued support for the H-1B program in a Fox News interview, stating that the U.S. still requires specialized foreign talent for key tech and defense roles. When asked about wage suppression concerns, Trump acknowledged the issue but maintained, “You do also have to bring in talent,” adding that the U.S. cannot rely solely on unemployed domestic workers to fill high-skill roles.
Greene’s proposal is expected to intensify ongoing debates in Congress over the future of the H-1B visa, a program on which Indian professionals—who currently constitute more than 70% of all H-1B holders—heavily rely. The bill’s potential impact on this demographic, and on industries that depend on high-skilled foreign workers, remains a critical point of discussion as immigration reform continues to take center stage in Washington.
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