ELON MUSK AND VIVEK RAMASWAMY CONCEDE THAT H-1B NEEDS MAJOR REFORM

Days after pledging to “go to war” in defence of the H-1B visa programme, tech billionaire Elon Musk has turned his sights on the system itself, labelling it “broken” and in need of “major reform.” The entrepreneur, who emigrated from South Africa to the US on an H-1B visa, suggested overhauling the scheme by significantly raising the minimum salary for visa holders and imposing an annual fee to maintain the visa.

Responding to a post on X, the social media platform he owns, Musk argued that the system could be “easily fixed by raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining the H-1B, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically”.