{"id":165065,"date":"2025-09-20T05:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-hikes-h-1b-visa-cost-to-100000-a-year-as-aide-tells-firms-to-train-americans-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T05:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:27:06","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-hikes-h-1b-visa-cost-to-100000-a-year-as-aide-tells-firms-to-train-americans-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-hikes-h-1b-visa-cost-to-100000-a-year-as-aide-tells-firms-to-train-americans-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president hikes H-1B visa cost to $100,000 a year as aide tells firms to \u2018train Americans\u2019 – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Decision could be major blow to tech industry, but commerce secretary says \u2018all of the big companies are on board\u2019 \u2013 key US politics stories from 19 September 2025
Donald Trump has signed an order to raise fees for the H-1B visa to $100,000 in what could be a major blow to the US tech industry, which contributed millions to his presidential campaign.
The tech industry relies, more than any other sector of the US economy, on H-1B visa holders. Roughly two-thirds of jobs secured through the H-1B program are computer-related, government figures show, but employers also use the visa to bring in engineers, educators and healthcare workers.
Critics of the program, including many US technology workers, argue that it allows firms to suppress wages and sideline Americans who could do the jobs. Supporters, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk<\/a>, say it brings in highly skilled workers essential to filling talent gaps and keeping firms competitive. Musk, himself a naturalized US citizen born in South Africa, once held an H-1B visa.
The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, told a press briefing that \u201call the big companies\u201d had been briefed on the new fee. \u201cA hundred-thousand dollars a year for H-1B visas, and all of the big companies are on board. We\u2019ve spoken to them,\u201d Lutnick said at an Oval Office event with the president.
\u201cIf you\u2019re going to train somebody, you\u2019re going to train one of the recent graduates from one of the great universities across our land. Train Americans. Stop bringing in people to take our jobs.\u201d
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Donald Trump said on Friday that he and Xi Jinping had agreed to approve a deal over TikTok.
\u201cHe approved the TikTok<\/a> deal,\u201d Trump said about Xi, suggesting the leaders signed off on a preliminary agreement. But Trump offered no details about the agreement or when it would be signed.
The American and Chinese leaders had connected over a phone call earlier in the day, the first direct contact between the two leaders since June. China<\/a> and the US have been at loggerheads over trade negotiations and the future of TikTok, a Chinese-owned social media platform that faces a ban in the US.
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A federal judge tossed Donald Trump\u2019s $15bn defamation lawsuit against the New York Times<\/a>, book publisher Penguin and two Times reporters, and said the suit was filled with \u201cvituperation and invective\u201d and violated civil procedure in federal cases for failing to get to the point.
US district court judge Steven Merryday in Florida will allow the president to refile and amend the action within 28 days, however.
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The US federal government drew closer to a shutdown on Friday, after Democrats made good on their vow not to support a Republican-backed measure that would extend funding for another two months because it did not include provisions to protect healthcare programs.
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The federal prosecutor for the eastern district of Virginia resigned Friday under intense pressure from Donald Trump<\/a>, after his office determined there wasn\u2019t sufficient evidence to charge New York\u2019s attorney general, Letitia James, a political rival of the president, with a crime.
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The killing<\/a> of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk<\/a> has triggered a wave of political disquiet in Washington, with some House<\/a> Democrats<\/a> fearing a messaging trap over a Republican<\/a> resolution to honor him while other lawmakers worry about the broader political temperature following government pressure on broadcasters.
Democrats ultimately decided to side with the Republicans<\/a> to pass the resolution, with 95 Democrats in support. Fifty-eight Democrats opposed it, 38 voted present and 22 did not vote.
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Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, compared Brendan Carr\u2019s threats to revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC stations over late-night host Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s commentary to \u201cmafioso\u201d tactics similar to those in Goodfellas, the 1990 mobster movie.
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Donald Trump announced that the US military has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel in the the Caribbean, killing three males on board the vessel whom Trump alleged were trafficking illicit narcotics.
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US law enforcement officials have claimed that the use of certain emojis could signal affiliation with Tren de Aragua<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>(TdA), a Venezuelan gang, according to internal records reviewed by the Guardian.
The Trump administration on Friday asked the US supreme court to halt a judge\u2019s order allowing transgender and non-binary people<\/a><\/strong> to choose the sex marker on their passports.
A top donor to Trump and other Maga Republicans has privately mocked the US president\u2019s longtime position that he has an upper hand in trade negotiations with China<\/a><\/strong>, in a sign that even some loyal supporters have been uneasy with the White House strategy.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 18 September 2025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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