cost of the bill by $57 million. so it actually reduces the deficit. who do we who pays for it? first, there are companies from a group of countries that bid on united states products. and they don t allow the u.s. companies to bid on products from their government and contracts from their government. we put a 2% surcharge on those. it s not the major countries of the world. they have treaties with us where our companies can bid for their government s contracts and vice versa. second, there are certain companies that abuse the h 1 b process by taking foreign workers and bringing them here and training them and sending them home. we increase the surcharge on those companies. they are foreign companies, almost exclusively. 50% of their workers have to be h1b. and third, there was a noncontroversial increase on visas for foreigners that for several years paid for travel promotion.
so it actual reduces the deficit. who do we, who pays for it? first, there are companies from a group of countries that bid on united states products and they allow the u.s. companies to bid on products. we put a 2% surcharge on those. it s not the major countries of the world. they have treaties with us where our companies can bid for their government s contracts and vice versa. second, there are certain companies that abuse the h 1 b process by taking foreign workers and training them and sending them home. we increase is surcharge on those companies. they are foreign almost exclusively. and third, there was a noncontroversial increase on visas for foreigners that for several years paid for travel promotion. we increased that by a couple of years. every one is noncontroversial.