The highly-controversial H1-B visa program for foreign workers could be totally shut down, underneath a new bill introduced to Congress by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green. In a video announcement, MTG said that she is introducing legislation that would ultimately phase out the H1-B visa program in favor of putting American workers first. Watch here: Backup here if needed: I am introducing a bill to END the mass replacement of American workers by aggressively phasing out the H1B program. Big Tech, AI giants, hospitals, and industries across the board have abused the H-1B system to cut out our own people. Americans are the most talented people… pic.twitter.com/m73Wp1MMiw — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) November 13, 2025 I am introducing a bill to END the mass replacement of American workers by aggressively phasing out the H1B program. Big Tech, AI giants, hospitals, and industries across the board have abused the H-1B system to cut out our own people. Americans are the most talented people in the world, and I have full faith in the American people. I serve Americans only, and I will ALWAYS put Americans first. My bill ELIMINATES the corrupt H-1B program and puts AMERICANS FIRST again in tech, healthcare, engineering, manufacturing, and every industry that keeps this country running!! If we want the next generation to have the American Dream, we must stop replacing them and start investing in them. Notably, the Trump administration has already taken action to reform the H1-B visa program. President Trump now requires companies who want to hire foreign workers to pay $100,000 in fees to get them on-board. That’s a great start at reforming the system. However, many people who are sick of losing out on job opportunities to foreigners want to see it go much farther than that. The debate over H1-B visas was recently re-ignited by some comments President Trump made to Laura Ingraham in praise of the program. During his interview with the Fox News host, President Trump shot back against Ingraham’s argument that we don’t need to ship in workers from other countries when we have plenty of talent in America. Watch: I PRESSED President Trump on H-1B visas. “If you want to RAISE WAGES for Americans, you can’t flood the country with THOUSANDS of foreign workers.”@POTUS: “You have to bring in talent… You can’t take people off the unemployment line and say, ‘go make missiles.’” The… pic.twitter.com/lB4wWuRKGK — Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) November 12, 2025   President Trump received a lot of backlash over that one. Take a look at some of these comments: I was greatly disappointed by the President’s response. Shocked really! — Doug Bush (@DougBush_X) November 13, 2025 It’s heartbreaking to see the H-1B visa program prioritized over American workers, especially when it undermines opportunities for our own talented youth. — Tan (@realimtan) November 12, 2025 So much for America First. — ??. ??????????? (@Lead_Flinger) November 12, 2025 President Trump did make a great point in that video. You can’t take someone off the unemployment line and put them in a job building missiles. Of course, that is true. But, wouldn’t it be a better idea to focus on building quality training and education programs for Americans in order to help them get the skills needed for one of these jobs, rather than just importing a foreigner? This is a great idea: Why isn’t he creating fast-track programs at our universities that teach the skills he’s saying our people don’t have and give them expert level skills better than anyone else in the world and let them attend for free? — Lindi (@LindiKC2) November 12, 2025 MTG was among the voices who disagreed with President Trump on the H1-B visa issue. However, the White House responded to criticism with a statement promising that the Trump administration remains focuses on “restoring accountability in the H1-B visa program.” Fox News explained further: While proponents of the program argue that the program is key to U.S. competitiveness, critics argue that the visa holders are taking away jobs from Americans. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., promptly spoke out against the statements, claiming that she is “America First and America Only.” “I believe in the American people. I am one of you.I believe you are good, talented, creative, intelligent, hardworking, and want to achieve. I am solidly against you being replaced by foreign labor, like with H1Bs,” Greene said. “I am solidly against allowing foreign students into our colleges and universities, like 600,000 Chinese students, just to financially prop them up. If they fail, they fail. The system in place isn’t helping our young people anyway.” Other Republicans weighed in and said the policy could play out poorly for the GOP in the 2026 midterms. “This is insane—we’re going to lose the mid-terms so badly,” Anthony Sabatini, a Republican county commissioner in Florida, said in a Tuesday post on X. “We’ve never seen an administration crash & burn in its first year so badly—for no reason other than to appease donors and special interests.” Meanwhile, the White House pointed to the Trump administration’s announcement in September that would require a $100,000 annual fee for companies seeking to obtain an H-1B visa. Likewise, the White House said that the Department of Labor launched Project Firewall in September in an attempt to ensure employers don’t abuse the H-1B visa process. “The Trump administration is protecting American workers by restoring accountability in the H1-B process, ensuring that it is used to bring in only the highest-skilled foreign workers in specialty occupations and not low wage workers that will displace Americans,” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said in a Wednesday statement to Fox News Digital. The issue historically has been controversial within Trump’s base, particularly after Trump himself came out and backed H-1B visas, saying it was a “great program” and that he’s a “believer in H-1B” in an interview with the New York Post in December 2024. SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who originally is from South Africa and used an H-1B visa to remain in the U.S., also said in December he would “go to war” on the issue. Where do you stand on this? Would you like to see the H1-B visa program eliminated?