Pandemic spread throughout the United States over the past 13 weeks. And while the white house is encouraged that more than half of those have found work, President Trump has chosen to suspend visas of Foreign Workers who would be in direct competition with American Workers. The new executive order suspends h1b visas for professional workers, h4 visas for their immediate family members, the order also restricts h2b visas for Agricultural Workers and l1 visas that allow multinational corporations to transfer their employees into the United States. As well as j1 visas for work and studybased exchange programs, all of them suspended until the end of the year. These impact, of course, the president s executive order, its much larger than anyone could have expected. It will affect hundreds of thousands of Foreign Workers seeking those visas, of course, and state Department Data shows that is a big number. That of the nearly one million temporary work visas approved, almost 190,000 were h1b
Many liberals think obama didnt do enough. He was given an emergency opportunity and should have pushed harder for a bigger stimulus to repair the country. So House Appropriations subcommittee is going to review 2021 spending levels for transportation and housing and urban Development Department as well as other related agencies. No changes are expected before sending it to the full committee, but we do expect statements from members. Good morning, everyone. Subcommittee will come to order. I certainly appreciate everyones flexibility and good humor, as we gather around under these socially distanced circumstances. The covid pandemic has certainly made for some unique challenges, but it hasnt deterred us from conducting our critical appropriations work on behalf of the american people. So im proud to unveil this fiscal 2021 transportation, housing, and urban development and related agencies appropriations bill. I want to briefly mention some of the bills highlights, but i want to first
Pandemic spread throughout the United States over the past 13 weeks. And while the white house is encouraged that more than half of those have found work, President Trump has chosen to suspend visas of Foreign Workers who would be in direct competition with American Workers. The new executive order suspends h1b visas for professional workers, h4 visas for their immediate family members, the order also restricts h2b visas for Agricultural Workers and l1 visas that allow multinational corporations to transfer their employees into the United States. As well as j1 visas for work and studybased exchange programs, all of them suspended until the end of the year. These impact, of course, the president s executive order, its much larger than anyone could have expected. It will affect hundreds of thousands of Foreign Workers seeking those visas, of course, and state Department Data shows that is a big number. That of the nearly one million temporary work visas approved, almost 190,000 were h1b
Pandemic spread throughout the United States over the past 13 weeks. And while the white house is encouraged that more than half of those have found work, President Trump has chosen to suspend visas of Foreign Workers who would be in direct competition with American Workers. The new executive order suspends h1b visas for professional workers, h4 visas for their immediate family members, the order also restricts h2b visas for Agricultural Workers and l1 visas that allow multinational corporations to transfer their employees into the United States. As well as j1 visas for work and studybased exchange programs, all of them suspended until the end of the year. These impact, of course, the president s executive order, its much larger than anyone could have expected. It will affect hundreds of thousands of Foreign Workers seeking those visas, of course, and state Department Data shows that is a big number. That of the nearly one million temporary work visas approved, almost 190,000 were h1b
Pandemic spread throughout the United States over the past 13 weeks. And while the white house is encouraged that more than half of those have found work, President Trump has chosen to suspend visas of Foreign Workers who would be in direct competition with American Workers. The new executive order suspends h1b visas for professional workers, h4 visas for their immediate family members, the order also restricts h2b visas for Agricultural Workers and l1 visas that allow multinational corporations to transfer their employees into the United States. As well as j1 visas for work and studybased exchange programs, all of them suspended until the end of the year. These impact, of course, the president s executive order, its much larger than anyone could have expected. It will affect hundreds of thousands of Foreign Workers seeking those visas, of course, and state Department Data shows that is a big number. That of the nearly one million temporary work visas approved, almost 190,000 were h1b