Vance Takes on Microsoft & The Battle for Alaska | 10.9.26

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VP Vance cracks down on US companies hiring foreign workers over Americans, this time focusing on big tech.

JD Vance (1:02)

For every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants.

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As President Trump crisscrosses the country to try to stave off a blue wave, back in the Capitol, he's facing some palace intrigue in DC Discord.

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And Democrats pin their hopes on deep red Alaska as the White House campaigns in the northernmost state. We talked to our reporter who was on the ground there.

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It's messy and it's confusing. And there's a lot of people worried that Alaskans are going to just throw in the towel and not vote.

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The Trump administration suspended Microsoft from a federal green card program on Thursday, accusing the tech giant of visa fraud. But hours later, President Trump hung one of the nation's highest honors around the neck of Microsoft's CEO.

Georgia Howe (3:16)

Here with more is Wired In host Cabot Phillips. So, Cabot, a pretty awkward moment. Walk us through what happened.

Cabot Phillips (3:22)

Yeah, this was the textbook example of the Washington whiplash. We'll call it a tale of two White House events. Kind of sounds literary there. The day started with VP Vance hosting a news conference for his fraud task force, where he was joined by the heads of the Department of Labor and FTC, as well as Attorney General Todd Blanch.

Vance was pretty direct. He said no company in the US is abusing the visa system more than Microsoft, and he announced the Labor Department would be cutting the company off from the program that it's used to sponsor foreign workers for green cards. Here he is making that case.

JD Vance (3:53)

Microsoft laid off last year 6,000 American workers. At the same time, the company benefited from 6,300 H-1B visas and almost 3,000 green cards. 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 of the United States, we're going to stop it.

Cabot Phillips (4:14)

But then, as you mentioned, a few hours later, President Trump stands up in a room full of big tech executives at his Science, a New Golden Age Summit, and then he awarded Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Here he is making that announcement.