'I didn't change my mind': Trump pressed on apparent flip-flop
Raw StoryPressed by reporters ahead of New Year's Eve celebrations on why he apparently reversed his position on the H1-B visa program, President-elect Donald Trump denied doing any such thing. While Trump made some overtures in favor of high-skilled worker visas near the end of his presidency, he ran on sharp curtailment of the program in 2016, noted former GOP strategist turned anti-Trump influencer Ron Filipkowski. "The H1-B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary workers foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay," said Trump in a statement issued during the 2016 election cycle. In recent days, tensions have flared in the MAGA community as hard-right activists have turned on tech billionaire Elon Musk for his passionate defense of the H1-B visa program.