Vance SHUTDOWN MICROSOFT After Bill Gates' Company Just Got Cut Off… and UNLOADS on Silicon Valley!

Microsoft just got cut off, folks. Not fined, not strongly encouraged, not sent a sternly worded letter. They got cut off. In fact, the Trump administration just suspended Microsoft from the green card pipeline. Oh, and the guy that's holding the scissors, you guessed it, J.D. Vance. Guys, that administration, the one that the experts swore had sold you out to big tech, turns out sold out looks more awfully like a shutdown. In fact, the H-1B visa program is meant to allow companies to bring in really the best of the best from outside the United States of America for positions that are completely impossible to fill with American workers. Unfortunately, the program has become rife with fraud over the last several years, probably the last several decades. There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft. And let me just give you a couple of statistics on this. Microsoft laid off last year 6,000, 6,000 American workers. At the same time, the company benefited from 6,300 H-1B visas and almost 3,000 green cards. In other words, if you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants. Now, that is a scandalous system that we've allowed in this country for far too long. But thanks to the work of this task force and thanks to the empowerment of the president, United States, we're going to stop because thanks to an ongoing investigation, we have decided to suspend the perm program for Microsoft, which means they will no longer be able to apply there. They'll no longer be able to take those H-1Bs and apply for permanent resident status within the United States of America. Now, our message to Microsoft and to any other foreign or domestic corporation is quite simple. We obviously want you to thrive in the United States of America. We want people to invest in the United States of America, but we want you to employ American workers. And so our message to Microsoft is you're a great American company, but you've got to hire great American workers. Microsoft laid off about 6,000 Americans last year. Very sad, very difficult decision. And then the same year, it brought in about 6,300 H-1B workers, plus nearly 3,000 green cards. That's like one and a half foreign workers for every American escorted out with a cardboard box. J.D. Vance's word for it? Indentured servants. Bill Gates is rebooting his whole world view right now. Hope he saved his work. Oh, and Microsoft didn't suffer alone. The Department of Labor, they brought friends. Adobe. Then the outsourcing giants, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, Capgemini. Since 2009, these companies asked for almost 3 million foreign workers. Three million. Now, this is not a talent shortage. This is a subscription service, okay? Oh, and the Labor Department's inspector general, they're running criminal investigations. Bring your popcorn. Now, in Silicon Valley, a $900 an hour lobbyist just dropped his oat milk latte on a Tesla. Now, picture an American engineer, real degree, real student loans, a year of resumes vanishing into the void. If this sticks, that phone finally starts ringing. And it's not about his car warranty. So why did your evening news give this about 30 seconds at the most? Somewhere between the weather and a dog on a skateboard? Well, guys, we got the whole story here. The fraud machine, the talent shortage, costume, and exactly who's next. So if you're new here, go ahead and hit subscribe. It's totally free. No visa required. We called this a scam back when that got you labeled a conspiracy theorist. Microsoft's PR department, they will not be subscribing, I'm pretty sure. Now, real quick, if you or someone you love is on Medicare turning 65, Chapter offers free Medicare help. I actually left their phone number down below. Give my friends a call right now. The average senior is saving about $1,100 a year. Their phone number is 909-563-8279. Now, if this makes your day, smash the like button on the way out. Big tech hates that button, probably. Now, for months, guys, you heard it everywhere. Trump is just like the rest of them. He sold out American workers. Big tech owns Trump now. Podcast said it. Pundit said it. You know that one cousin at Thanksgiving? He said it twice. With gravy on his chin. He didn't even know it was there. Oh, and look guys, some of that frustration was real. People voted for change. They wanted to see it. But here's what I just cannot get past. If this administration has done nothing, nothing at all, then why are the same critics so furious all the time? Like, why all the meltdowns? You don't scream at the guy who's asleep on the couch. You scream at the guy who just moved all your furniture. So let that settle in. The Trump administration took aim at Microsoft suspending the company from using a program allowing them to apply for green cards for workers using H-1B visas. Those visas are meant for highly skilled foreign tech workers, typically working tech engineering jobs, which can be difficult to fill in the U.S. The Trump administration claims the program is rife with fraud. Our Maryland colleague visited the Microsoft campus in Redmond to find out what this might look like. Microsoft will still be able to hire workers on this visa, but as one of our experts puts it, it puts them at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to recruiting those foreign workers who might be interested in staying in the U.S. long term. You cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants. Microsoft disputing claims by the vice president. They brought in thousands of new foreign workers to replace Americans at a lower rate. J.D. Vance going as far as accusing the company of fraud. Microsoft laid off last year 6,000, 6,000 American workers. At the same time, the company benefited from 6,300 H-1B visas. In a statement, the company says a majority of their employees in the U.S. are Americans and that 80% of their H-1B visa applications last fiscal year were for existing Microsoft employees, adding they pay those workers the same as others doing similar work. So you can draw on local talent for sure for much of it, but you also need super specialized additional help along the way. Mark Muro is a senior fellow at Brookings Metro, a nonpartisan research and policy org. If the U.S. is looking to make it more difficult to recruit global talent, what could the long-term consequences look like for American tech companies? It stands to reason that any constraints on talent could be very troublesome for the industry as a whole. I would hazard to say no place has benefited more from this than Seattle. Really, Seattle and Silicon Valley. Microsoft ranked fifth for the most H-1B visas this fiscal year. Seattle-based Amazon had the most. Ultimately, the local economies that lose these people will become a bit poorer. The growth will slow down. Giovanni Perry is an economics professor at UC Davis who focuses on the impact of international migration. I want to dispel is this idea that there is a fixed number of jobs. And if you give them to the foreigner, the native will not have them. That's not how the economy works. Jobs are created by firm. If the firm can grow because they can hire smart people who produce new idea, they can hire more. This is not the first time that the president has taken aim at this particular visa program. The president is also currently trying to raise its price. Now think about the American worker who did everything right. They got the degree, they paid the loans, they applied for like 200 jobs. They heard back from four out of 200. Two of them jobs that they heard back from were scams. One was a pyramid scheme selling some vitamins. The other one wanted you to sell some knives. That person was told, be more competitive. Now, the Trump administration is telling big tech the exact same thing. Here is what changed, guys. Big tech, they have a whole PR team that's telling you what this actually means. You have us. So join the Ron Yates Report newsletter, guys. It's totally free. When a move like this shakes up hiring, we're going to tell you exactly which industries are opening doors, which companies are under the microscope, and what it could mean for your paycheck or for your kid's first job. So look, no yacht required. I'll leave a link for you in the description down below to get the newsletter. So picture the room, right? You got a podium, a row of very serious faces from the federal H-1B task force and JD Vance stepping up like a guy who's completely done asking nicely. Now picture who he's taking on, Microsoft and friends. Not some corner store, not a startup in somebody's garage. These are the most powerful companies in human history. They run the software behind your bank, behind your news, your phone, your kid's homework, probably even your toaster by now. Yeah, why does the toaster even need software or even Wi-Fi access is beyond me. Now, for 30 years, politicians walked in the rooms just like this and they blinked every single time. Republicans blinked, Democrats blinked, their donors smiled. But this time, no blink, no blinky blinky. And if you somehow missed the whole thing, that's not your fault, folks. Big networks covered it like a lost cat flyer. Brief, sad, easy to miss. It's funny how that works, right? So when a CEO gets a bonus, it's breaking news. But when the American worker finally gets a win, crickets. Well, we're not crickets. Let's open the books. This administration knows that American workers are the best and brightest in the world. These jobs that were stolen from them should have gone and will now go to Americans first, not foreigners and especially not foreign fraudsters. And today, thanks to President Trump, Vice President and the task force, we are cutting off the head of the snake. The companies that have enabled this abuse for decades due to ongoing criminal investigations led by the Department of Labor's Inspector General Anthony D'Esposito, who will get into this shortly. I am hereby suspending from the Permanent Labor Certification Program some of the largest IT outsourcing firms in the world, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini. And also due to multiple active federal investigations, the Department of Labor is suspending Microsoft and Adobe from the program. So what does this mean? We will not accept any new or process any pending permanent labor certification applications involving these companies. Since 2009, just these companies alone have requested almost 3 million foreign workers. They've received over 230,000 H-1B visas approvals and over 100,000 permanent labor certifications. That's hundreds of thousands of jobs that were taken from American workers. Our historic action is the first critical step to stop the fraud and the abuse and ensure that these programs never come at the expense of the American worker. Under President Trump's leadership and thanks to Vice President Vance and this task force, we are ending the fraud that has fueled reliance on foreign labor. President Trump's Department of Labor will ensure that American businesses now look first to the most talented workforce in the world, and that's the American worker we have decided to suspend the PERM program for Microsoft which means they will no longer be able to apply uh they're those they'll no longer be able to take those H-1Bs and apply for permanent resident status within the United States of America so our message to Microsoft is you're a great American company but you've got to hire great American workers you cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants. Now, there are nine universities in particular that we believe merit an investigation. Those universities are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT. We actually want these companies to change their behavior, improve their behavior, and actually get better. That's the goal here. We're not just punishing them to punish them. We're punishing them because we want them to change their behavior. So let's go ahead and do the Microsoft math, shall we? Kind of like a 6th grade word problem. So Microsoft lets go of 6,000 American workers. Same year it brings in 6,300 H-1B workers. Then nearly 3,000 green cards on top. Question, was there a worker shortage? Show your work. We gotta show your work now. This is roughly one and a half foreign workers for every American let go. Now, I don't know how you hire half a person, but I'm pretty sure Microsoft's lawyers found a way to do it. Even the Xbox side of the game got hit with the layoffs. So the company that sells your kid's game over screens handed a few to its own staff. J.D. Vance, he had a name for the setup. Indentured servants. Workers tied to the boss by a visa. Quit and you might be packing for home. Oh, and Bill Gates, yeah, the man who wants to fix the planet's weather and what you eat for lunch. Somehow he never noticed this. Maybe it was on his other computer. Will anybody at the top ever answer for it? Now, somebody you know just got a rejection email that said, we've decided to go another direction. go ahead and send them this video right now. Right now, guys. Now they're going to know exactly which direction. Hit share. I'll wait for you. If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants. Vice President J.D. Vance is taking aim at some of America's biggest tech companies. On Thursday, he announced the Trump administration is suspending Microsoft, Adobe, and other software companies from the Permanent Labor Certification Program. a process employers use to sponsor foreign workers for green cards. Alongside members of its fraud task force, Vance accused Microsoft of cutting American jobs while relying on the H-1B visa program. Microsoft laid off last year 6,000, 6,000 American workers. At the same time, the company benefited from 6,300 H-1B visas and almost 3,000 green cards. PERM allows employers to move H-1B workers toward permanent residency. To use the program, a company must certify that no qualified American worker was available for the job. Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said because of the alleged fraud, his department will no longer accept or process applications involving those companies as officials continue to investigate. The Department of Labor is suspending Microsoft and Adobe from the program. So what does this mean? We will not accept any new or process any pending permanent labor certification applications involving these companies. The suspension also covers other software companies and several outsourcing firms, including Cognizant. The vice president said the alleged fraud lies in the certifications companies make when they apply, including claims that foreign hires have skills American workers can't provide. Vance also downplayed any tension when asked about President Trump's decision to honor Microsoft's CEO with a top national technology medal. So we're going to continue to support Microsoft and have a great relationship with Microsoft, but we're also going to deny them the ability to apply for these permanent residencies until they show that they're going to get serious about putting American workers first. The vice president adding that the action could extend to other tech companies. The suspension of PERM is going to last as long as it needs to. We have a number of tools to suspend it indefinitely, but we actually want these companies to change their behavior, improve their behavior, and actually get better. That's the goal here. We're not just punishing them to punish them. We're punishing them because we want them to change their behavior. This comes as White House officials continue to urge Congress to take up H-1B reform. So what did Washington actually do? Think chutes and ladders. You see, an H-1B visa gets a worker in the door, but the grand prize is a green card, permanent residency. To get there, companies use something called PERM. Think of it as the ladder from temporary to permanent. That ladder was the carrot. Work hard, work cheap, slave away, never complain, and maybe, maybe the boss helps you climb. Well, the Department of Labor just sent Microsoft down the chute. No new applications. No pending ones processed. Why? Ongoing criminal investigations led by the Labor Department's Inspector General Anthony Desposito. Criminal. Not a misunderstanding. not a paperwork hiccup, criminal. Under President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, fraud is no longer being dismissed as an accounting error. Fraud is a crime. Fraud steals American jobs. Fraud fuels violence. Fraud threatens our national security. President Trump and Vice President Vance understand that protecting America means standing behind the men and women who wear the uniform, giving them the resources to do their jobs and letting cops be cops. I am announcing a historic investigation into the J-1 visa fraud involving nine major American universities. Pitt, Yale, Harvard, Stanford Brown, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT. Subpoenas have been served, investigations are underway, and nobody will be getting a free pass because their name is carved into an expensive building oh and without the carrot the whole model wobbles why would anybody accept less pay and 60-hour work weeks if the green card isn't waiting at the end now imagine silicon valley this week emergency meetings lawyers billing by the minute somebody in a hoodie googling what is accountability panic looks really good on them now microsoft didn't take the fall alone in fact misery loves company and the Department of Labor brought a guest list. Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, Capgemini. Sounds like a law firm. It's actually six of the biggest outsourcing companies on earth, most of them based in India. Their whole business? Renting workers to American companies. Cheaper, faster, no complaining. Oh, and then Adobe. Yes, the Photoshop people, right? Of course, there's Adobe Premiere. We can't forget about them either. Suspended over federal investigations. Turns out you can't Photoshop your way out of this one. Same rules for all of them. No new applications, no pending ones being processed, done. So now, here's how these firms usually work. They show up, smile, promise efficiency. A few months later, a whole IT department, 100 people, sometimes more, just disappears. Badges stop working, desks go quiet, parking lot gets a little emptier. The company calls it restructuring. So imagine the phone calls that morning. Sir, the labor department's on line one. Tell them I'm in a meeting. Sir, they are the meeting. Efficiency actually delivered. How's that? Now, let's zoom out for a second, right? Since 2009, these companies, they asked for almost 3 million foreign workers. 3 million. They got more than 230,000 H-1B approvals and more than 100,000 permanent labor certifications. A big old NFL stadium holds about 70,000 people. Now, if you fill it with H-1B approvals, then do it again and again, you'd still have thousands waiting in the parking lot. Oh, and the American fans, they're stuck outside. They don't even get a ticket. So this goes back to the 90s. Big tech was importing workers while locals living right next to the company headquarters could not get hired. So picture an IT pro making six figures in the early 2000s. By 2006, he's getting replaced. And of course, they're telling him to train his replacement. By 2008, he's taking jobs for way less money. He's fixing the mess that the cheaper workers left behind. This did not start last week, folks. It started around your dad's first job. And so now the Department of Labor says companies must look for American workers first. What a radical idea. Since President Trump launched the fraud task force and put the vice president in charge, our worst nightmares about the fraud that had been taking place in this country were exceeded. Fraud that has been going on for years, decades in some cases generations and yet in case after case after case we see individuals that are being brought into the country for skills that are not specialized that are not unique and that are not skilled that are doing work that is currently being done by american workers but vastly lower pay if you go back a few decades in this country this was an issue that was covered commonly by our media in fact there's a famous special that was done by mike wallace at cbs probably almost 30 years ago now, when this program was first starting, documenting and detailing these abuses. If you remember in 2015, when President Trump first campaigned for president, he had at his rallies American workers in good-paying middle-class jobs with pensions who were laid off and forced to train their foreign replacements as the condition of their severance. But what President Trump has done to fix and reform the immigration system more broadly is equally as astonishing and impressive. He completely fixed and repaired the refugee program that has managed to turn an immigration system from being against its people to for its people. And in particular, in the Western world, where this has been simmering for a long time, President Trump is the only Western leader to deliver for the citizens of this country an immigration system that puts them first. No other Western leader has done this. President Trump stands alone. Now, you guys remember where we started, right? They said Trump sold you out. They said nothing would happen. Well, something did happen. J.D. Vance and the Department of Labor, they stood at that podium and they named names. Microsoft, Adobe, Tata, Infosys, the Trump administration, they didn't send a letter. They just shut a door. And the world noticed. People in Ireland, Scotland, the UK, and Australia, they're asking why their own leaders won't do this. Now, imagine being jealous of Washington, right? Now, think about the people this was really for. The computer science grad that's fixing machines instead of writing code, the 30-year veteran shown the door, the developer locked out of his own field for three years, told to keep learning, get another certification. To every one of them, it wasn't you guys. It never was you. The game was rigged. Somebody finally kicked the table. So you tell me, which company should be next? Drop it in the comments down below. And if this made your day, hit the like button on the way out. Microsoft has a team of lawyers looking for loopholes right now. You can bet on it. 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