Tech Makes an Economic Case for Skilled Immigrants. Will Trump Bite?

Published Dec 17

I think this turned out to be an influential story. Buried in the middle is that high-skill immigration is not a priority of the incoming administration.

Looks to me like the very newest Republican leadership didn’t agree. It looks like Vivek and Elon took a position without input from Trump. Not an anodyne corporate position, like this Dec 17 article, but an explicit one on “culture”.

In hindsight, I saw more than one surreptitious article last week clearing the way for cultural criticism that conveniently supported relaxed H-1B caps.

We’re about to see if policy can be set over X without any input from Trump at all.