Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had a bizarre day.
On Thursday morning, Vice President JD Vance hosted a media gathering to province that the US would suspend a important visa program for Microsoft's workers.
Though multiple tech companies were targeted, Vance called out Microsoft by name, alleging that "no business in the United States" abused the Permanent Labor Certification Program (PERM) worse.
"If you do the math, for all employee that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that employee alongside one-and-a-half abroad indentured servants," Vance said. "Now that is a scandalous scheme that we've allowed in this nation for far too long."
Huge banners rearward the veep declared "PROTECTING AMERICAN WORKERS" and "FIGHTING VISA FRAUD."
But hours later, Trump was chanting Nadella's praises.
At a White House event honoring "a new aureate age" for science, Nadella walked up to the chairman — whose administration had fair accused his business of visa fraud, intellect you — and received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
"For additional than three decades, Satya Nadella has been a key fig in the transformation of Microsoft — revolutionizing the business and empowering businesses, students, and consumers from all complete the earth alongside several of the most capable application always built or always equal conceived," Trump stated at the event, before the two posed for a photo op.
Nadella, for his part, thanked Trump for the "incredible honor" in an X post, which didn't citation Vance's accusations. A Microsoft blog article shared by a spokesman to Business Insider stated 80% of the company's approximately 6,000 H-1B visa applications were for existing employees, not new hires.
"Microsoft lone records H-1B petitions for those who encounter the rigorous standards of this visa category," the business wrote. It additionally stated the "vast bulk of Microsoft workforce in the United States are Americans."
Thursday's awkwardness was the latest example of Trump putting endeavor leaders in tricky situations as he takes a far additional energetic function in endeavor dealings than his presidential predecessors.
Trump has used his administrator power to advance endeavor leaders to rear a assortment of his initiatives, akin his Trump Account funds program for American children. At the identical time, he's lashed out at opposition, including on Thursday whenever he stated that anyone who wasn't on commission alongside his authoritative declaration to rebrand synthetic intelligence as "super intelligence" would be considered an "enemy" of the White House.
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