House Judiciary Chairman backs VP’s claim that Microsoft is prioritizing overseas hires amid layoffs

While Microsoft is in the process of laying off approximately 9,100 employees, Vice President J.D. Vance alleged that the company quickly followed its decision with an increase in H-1B applications.

Vance took to a town meeting to suggest several large companies are laying off Americans to then apply to hire people from overseas. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan believes Vance is on to something, according to “The Jason Rantz Show.”

“J.D. is onto something here if, in fact, they’re doing it as just a purely economic decision. You’ve got good employees who are Americans, and you’re saying, ‘We’re paying them X, and we can get foreign individuals to come in and do the same job. We can pay them X minus something else. Some lower salary,’ — that’s just wrong and that’s what I think troubles Americans,” Jordan said on “The Jason Rantz Show” on KTTH.

House Judiciary Chairman looks to pass stricter immigration bill

To prevent companies from hiring foreign workers, Jordan aims to push through the strict immigration bill that made its way through Congress last session.

“I think it puts in place the laws we need, so that in the future, if you get another Joe Biden-type president, they can’t do what Joe Biden did. Open the border, give all kinds of visas. Do all kinds of things they did,” Jordan said. “I want to pass that tough immigration law, and then, in the context of that, if there’s negotiations about some high-skilled visas and everything else, so be it, that’ll happen, but I want to pass the tough legislation.”

There will be 3,120 Microsoft employees laid off in Redmond and Bellevue by Aug. 1, according to the Washington State Employment Security Department. Microsoft stated the cuts were not related to performance, but instead an effort to reduce layers of management as it continues to heavily invest in artificial intelligence (AI).

Jordan said his committee is looking to pass legislation similar to H.R. 2 — a bill that tightens asylum eligibility and mandates that employers use an electronic system to verify employment eligibility.

“What we need to do is pass H.R. 2-type legislation. That’s what we’re looking to do out of our committee when we get back in the fall,” he shared.

Listen to the full conversation below.

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