President Trump said in a Fox News interview that aired Sunday evening H-1B skilled worker visas are necessary because "you don't have certain talents" in the U.S.

Why it matters: H-1B visas have divided MAGA world, with business leaders like Elon Musk saying they're vital to U.S. tech dominance, but Fox News' Laura Ingraham raised with Trump the concern that the scheme risks displacing American employees with foreign workers. • Trump signed an executive order in September requiring highly skilled workers hoping to obtain an H-1B visa to work in the U.S. to pay a $100,000 fee.

Driving the news: Trump said on "The Ingraham Angle" that the U.S. is "leading China by a lot on AI" and "we have potentially the greatest economy — already it is. ... there is never going to be a country like wh

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