Responding to criticism, Bessent said such jobs can’t be filled locally as the US has long lacked the required expertise. (AP Photo)

United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has supported President Donald Trump’s view that the country needs to bring in skilled foreign workers through the H-1B visa programme to fill high-tech jobs that Americans currently cannot.

Speaking on Fox & Friends , Bessent said that for decades, the US workforce has been focused on “precision and fact-trained jobs,” but industries like shipbuilding and semiconductor manufacturing require expertise that will take years to develop domestically.

“We can’t snap our fingers and say, ‘we’re gonna learn how to build ships overnight’. We want to bring the semiconductor industry back to the US. There are gonna be

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