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President Donald Trump, joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and several other health officials, revealed science on Monday that suggests the exploding number of autism cases in America may be linked to the use of the painkiller acetaminophen, commonly known by the trade name Tylenol, or vaccinations demanded for children.
The result is that new Food and Drug Administration recommendations will discourage women from using it during the entirety of a pregnancy.
RFK Jr. said he ordered research into all causes of autism.
He said the evidence shows clinical and laboratory studies suggest a link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism.
Now a physicians' notice is coming from the FDA about the possible link.
HHS said clinicians should "exercise their best judgment" regarding painkillers needed during pregnancy, he said.
Studies, he said, show Tylenol use can extend some illnesses.
"We expect this to be first announcement over coming years," he said of autism, a "complex" condition.
He also said further review is going on into childhood vaccines. Research on that potential link he said, has been "actively discredited" in the past and so more studies are under way now.
He said whatever is discovered will be released.
The government also announced $50 million in research grants for a variety of projects on the topics at hand.
Scientists will consider environment, biology, genetics and more, officials.
Trump said he's been alarmed over autism rates for 20 years, when he met with RFK Jr. in his New York business office to talk about the problem.
Trump said the incidence of autism was one in 20,000, then one in 10,000, and most recently is one in 31 among children.
For boys that's one in 12, he said.
"Everyone should be grateful for those trying to get the answers to this complex situation," he said.
He suggested the evidence shows "there's something artificial" impacting children because of the exploding number of cases, and he cited some population groups, like the Amish who avoid shots and vaccinations, who have an autism rate of very near zero.
Trump said, "All pregnant women should talk to their doctors about limiting use of this medication."
And he said doctors use a "vat of 80 different vaccines" to inoculate children.
Letters are going to all Americans doctors about the new warnings.
Science actually shows that there's a possible link between the relationship acetaminophen use and autism cases, administration officials said.
A report in USA Today said, "The report comes after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to find the cause of rising autism cases."
The report claimed acetaminophen, often sold under the brand name Tylenol, has long been considered the "safest" option for managing headaches, fever and other pain during pregnancy.
The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine suggested large surveys have reported that between 40% and 65% of pregnant women use acetaminophen at some point during their pregnancy.
The report confirmed, "By 2022, the U.S. autism rate in 8-year-olds was 1 in 31, or 3.2%, up from 2.77% in 2020, 2.27% in 2018 and 0.66% in 2000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
Kennedy has cited an "autism epidemic" in the U.S., from "environmental toxins."
The concept is not entirely new. Multiple prior studies have suggested such a link, while other studies have claimed to have discounted it.
The report said, "A large study encompassing over 100,000 participants found that higher-quality studies tended to find a link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders in children, according to the report published Aug. 14 in BMC Environmental Health."
"Given the widespread use of this medication, even a small increase in risk could have major public health implications," said study author Dr. Diddier Prada, assistant professor of population health science and policy, and environmental medicine and climate science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
"More than two dozen studies around the world have linked a pregnant person's frequent use of acetaminophen to autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, in their child. But several studies have also found competing evidence," the report said.
Kenvue, the makers of Tylenol, said acetaminophen continues to be the safest pain-relieving option for pregnant women and, without it, women are in danger of suffering a potentially harmful fever or using riskier alternatives to alleviate pain, the report said.
The Mayo Clinic explained the autism spectrum disorder is a condition "related to brain development that affects how people see others and socialize with them. This causes problems in communication and getting along with others socially. The condition also includes limited and repeated patterns of behavior. The term 'spectrum' in autism spectrum disorder refers to the wide range of symptoms and the severity of these symptoms."
It explained, "Autism spectrum disorder includes conditions that were once thought to be separate — autism, Asperger's syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder and a form of widespread developmental disorder that isn't specified."
The Scientific American said, "There is no simple answer to what causes autism, more than 50 years of scientific research has shown. It is a complex neurodevelopmental condition that arises from a constellation of genetic factors and environmental influences."
The left is absolutely furious about the cancellation of "Jimmy Kimmel Live," and it even sparked a comment from former President Barack Obama, who accused the White House of forcing the network to cancel the late-night comedian.
According to Fox News, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt fired back at the former president, making it clear that it was the network's decision to cancel Kimmel and not due to White House pressure.
Obama, in an X post, had accused the Trump administration of "routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies" if they don't follow their playbook, a claim made without evidence.
The former president encouraged media companies to "stand up" to the Trump administration on First Amendment grounds.
Obama's accusatory X post sparked the reply from Leavitt defending the administration while shooting down Obama's accusations.
"After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn't like," Obama wrote.
He added, "This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it."
Leavitt joined Fox News' Kayleigh McEnany on her new show, "Saturday in America," to respond to Obama's accusations.
"With all due respect to former President Barack Obama, he has no idea what he's talking about," Leavitt said. "The decision to fire Jimmy Kimmel and to cancel his show came from executives at ABC."
"And how do I know that, Kayleigh?" Leavitt asked. "Because I was with the President when this news broke in the United Kingdom."
Leavitt explained why ABC made the call to get rid of Kimmel after he lied about Charlie Kirk's death, which sparked major backlash across the country.
"It was a decision that was made by ABC because Jimmy Kimmel chose to knowingly lie to his audience on his program about the death of a highly respected man when our country is in a state of mourning. That was a decision that he made, and he is now facing a consequence for that decision and for that lie," Leavitt said.
Nexstar's broadcasting chief, Andrew Alford, explained in a press release the decision to preempt his show.
"Mr. Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views or values of the local communities in which we are located," he wrote.
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Just how many federal laws and regulations are there?
Even a blog at the Library of Congress said that's "nearly impossible" to estimate.
Suffice it to say there are tens of thousands of laws, and multiple regulations and rules for each.
The problem is that the rules and regulation are created by bureaucrats, not members of Congress when they wrote the law, and as such, they sometimes do more than Congress intended. Or allowed.
Now, there's a new artificial intelligence tool that is intended to help voters sort out which rule or regulation goes too far. Just when did some bureaucrat simply go too far and put into writing something Congress didn't intend.
Think, perhaps, of some of the fights that have erupted in recent years. It is allowable for the government to dam a waterway and flood a farmer's land, damaging his crops and walk away from the problem? A rule said OK, but the courts ruled Congress said no.
Or can a federal agency simply confiscate cash from a traveler because they have cash, without filing any charges or beginning any legal case. Multiple agencies have done it; and some court rulings have said no.
There's now a new Nondelegation Project that has been launched by the Pacific Legal Foundation.
It traces "powers Congress has delegated to federal agencies. By systematically linking each federal regulation to its authorizing statute, our database fills a critical gap in understanding the true scope of modern rulemaking by unelected officials," the organization announced.
The project is intended to "decode power delegated to federal agencies. Informed by the legal landscape shaped by Loper Bright and the end of Chevron deference, the Project provides policymakers, litigators, and scholars with a clear, data-driven view of how congressional delegations have enabled the growth of the modern administrative state."
"By tracing regulatory authority back to its statutory roots, the Nondelegation Project supports more accountable governance and stronger legislative oversight."
The tool was developed by Patrick McLaughlin, a visiting research fellow at PLF, and shows whether Congress granted agencies broad, open-ended powers or gave them narrow, specific instructions.
"That distinction is crucial in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent decisions in West Virginia v. EPA, which developed the major questions doctrine, and Loper Bright, which restored meaningful judicial review of agency power," the foundation explained.
Critically, it reveals "which regulations may now be vulnerable to challenge."
For example, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has been given by Congress a "general delegation 3,309 times.
For the EPA it's 2,752, and for the Food and Drug Administration it's 1,155 times.
"Americans deserve a government where Congress writes laws, not unelected bureaucrats," said McLaughlin. "This tool sheds light on the extent to which agencies have relied on vague or sweeping grants of authority to expand their reach. It provides lawyers, lawmakers, and the public with a new way to hold the administrative state accountable."
The subject of H1-B visas has long been a controversial one, particularly amid the Trump administration’s efforts to prioritize American workers and realign the country’s immigration system.
To that end, on Friday, Trump signed a proclamation requiring an annual visa fee of $100,000 for high-skill foreign workers, as Breitbart reports, sparking criticism from former Biden-era officials and near panic from tech industry giants.
The president’s proclamation is set to bring about a noteworthy increase in visa fees for this category of worker, taking it from $215 to $100,000.
H1-B visas are designed to facilitate entry for high-skilled foreign workers suited for jobs American employers suggest are difficult to fill.
Detractors of the program argue that it is a conduit for overseas job seekers who are willing to work for wages well below those otherwise commanded by American workers.
Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stated that the Friday move will almost certainly result in the issuance of significantly fewer such visas, because the economics of the proposition for employers are now dramatically changed, and it will not make financial sense for many companies in the way it once did.
Lutnick explained, “If you’re going to train people, you’re going to train Americans. If you have a very sophisticated engineer, and you want to bring them in …then you can pay $100,000 a year for your H1-B visa.”
Though Trump’s move has garnered support from those who have fought against the widespread use of H1-B visas in recent years, others, including Doug Rand, a Biden-era U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official, vehemently disagreed.
Declaring the increased fee “ludicrously lawless,” Rand added, “This isn’t real policy – it’s fan service for immigration restrictionists.”
“Trump gets his headlines, and inflicts a jolt of panic, and doesn’t care whether this survives first contact with the courts,” Rand stated.
Immigration lawyers and representatives from tech companies jumped into panicked action on Friday, as Politico noted, advising clients and workers traveling abroad to return stateside ahead of midnight on Sunday, when the new policy was slated to take effect.
The White House, for its part, took action to tamp down the hyperbole, assuring all parties involved that the proclamation does not impact those with a current visa and will only apply to future applicants in the February visa lottery who are currently outside the country.
As has been the case with virtually every headline-making order issued by Trump thus far in his second term, lawsuits opposing the H1-B changes are already reportedly in the works.
With some complaining that ambiguities in the order have left many open questions regarding implementation, it seems clear that the emergence of additional administration guidance – not to mention litigation – is almost certainly on the horizon.
While most of President Donald Trump's major picks for top administration gigs are already in the books, a massive one was confirmed this week by the GOP-led Senate.
According to the Daily Caller, Mike Waltz, President Trump's former National Security Advisor, was confirmed by the Senate to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (UN).
The confirmation, which happened based on a party line vote, was just in time for the UN General Assembly gathering in New York City next week.
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul was the only GOP member of the upper chamber to vote against Waltz's confirmation.
Notably, three Senate Democrats crossed the aisle to vote in favor of confirming Waltz to the top job. Those senators included John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Mark Kelly of Arizona.
Waltz's confirmation process has been a bit rocky, as he had to wait after some initial turmoil in the process.
The Daily Caller noted:
Waltz was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 24, but was one of numerous nominees to be sent back to committee in early September due to Democrats’ complaints over the initial panel votes. He again passed the committee’s muster on Wednesday, with Shaheen, the panel’s top Democrat, voting yes, and only one Republican, Paul, voting no.
During his interview process, Waltz said that there's “good and meaningful work to be done," after saying that he believes the United Nations needs a "major reform."
Congratulations, Mr. Ambassador! Saturday morning at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, Mike Waltz was sworn in as the 32nd U.S. Representative to the United Nations. pic.twitter.com/SbWT8Bqkhg
— U.S. Mission to the UN (@USUN) September 20, 2025
"Congratulations - may you have great success in straightening that horrifically crooked organization, the UN," one X user wrote.
Waltz has been a major player in the Trump administration, but found himself embroiled in controversy early on as the national security advisor.
The Daily Caller recalled:
Waltz became entangled in controversy during his just over three-month tenure as national security advisor after adding Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic and longtime Trump critic, to an 18-person group chat on the messaging app Signal in March 2025. The messages, published by the outlet, were discussing pending strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Waltz ultimately left his position, but it was quickly confirmed that Waltz still had the full confidence of the president and the White House.
That must have been true, as Trump nominated him for the UN ambassador gig on the same day he left his post as national security adviser.
President Donald Trump is cracking down on all types of crime that affects American citizens, including the elimination of major narcoterrorists who aim to fill our streets with illegal drugs.
According to the New York Post, the Trump administration announced that as a result of its third strike against drug traffickers, three "narcoterrorists" were killed, marking yet another successful mission for America.
The U.S. military carried out a strike against the drug traffickers -- a mission that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth greenlighted.
While President Trump left out some of the details of the mission presumably for operational security, he touted the successful kill mission in a Truth Social post this week.
The president held nothing back in announcing the mission's results, warning others who might be considering moving drugs into the USA to rethink their life choices.
"On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans," Trump wrote.
"The strike killed 3 male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel, which was in international waters. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike."
"STOP SELLING FENTANYL, NARCOTICS, AND ILLEGAL DRUGS IN AMERICA, AND COMMITTING VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICANS!!!
The administration also provided high-quality video footage of the strike, which showed the boat carrying the drugs being blown to smithereens in an instant. It quickly went viral.
BREAKING 🚨 Donald Trump confirms ANOTHER military strike on narcoterrorist vessels. HUGE
I PRAY Trump keeps doing these every week
I VOTED FOR THIS pic.twitter.com/kMv47sfSs3
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) September 20, 2025
Users across social media cheered the Trump administration for taking the shot on the boat and blowing it up.
"I am glad someone finally has the testicular fortitude to go after the cartels," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "I love this. It’s absolutely perfect. They make so much money that they will risk. Humans lives to get that poison into our country."
It'll be interesting to see how far the Trump administration will go in its efforts to cut down on narco traffic.
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President Donald Trump has gone to the Supreme Court seeking an order halting a passport plan that has "no basis in law or logic."
It is D. John Sauer, the nation's solicitor general, who explained to the court that a lower court decision that allows people "to select their own sex designation" regardless of their biological sex should be halted.
"Private citizens cannot force the government to use inaccurate sex designations on identification documents that fail to reflect the person's biological sex—especially not on identification documents that are government property and an exercise of the President's constitutional and statutory power to communicate with foreign governments," Sauer told the justices in his petition.
"That injunction injures the United States by compelling it to speak to foreign governments in contravention of both the President's foreign policy and scientific reality. As the lower courts have declined to stay this baseless injunction pending appeal, this Court's intervention is warranted," Sauer said.
Since the beginning of such designations, U.S. passports have allowed people to list male or female on their passports.
Then came Biden's transgender agenda, in which he advocated for chemical treatments and body mutilating surgeries on both adults and children.
Trump's reversion to the previous standard, Sauer explained, is "eminently lawful."
It was Judge Julia Kobick who made the claim that Biden's policy was required.
And then it was the Daily Caller that explained her connections to and support for Democrats and Democrat agendas run deep.
Nominated by Joe Biden, she previously clerked for leftist extremist and vocal anti-Trump justice Ruth Ginsburg.
She also worked with Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey when she was attorney general.
She also worked with the "Government Bureau's Racial Equity Working Group."
She also volunteered for Democratic political campaigns, including a stint promoting John Kerry and Elizabeth Warren.
Sauer was at the high court on Friday, seeking to correct the decision from the lower court.
Trump's administration largely has been successful in its cases before the Supreme Court, which often have been moved there because of the politically driven agendas used by district court judges against Trump.
Actor Charlie Sheen claims former President Bill Clinton once made a pass on a girlfriend the actor was dating while filming the 1987 flick Three for the Road, Fox News reported. Sheen made this revelation in his new memoir, The Book of Sheen, which was released last week.
The alleged encounter between Clinton and Sheen's then-girlfriend Dolly Fox occurred while Clinton, a notorious philanderer, was governor of Arkansas. The 60-year-old Wall Street actor said that he was invited to the governor's mansion along with co-stars Kerri Green and Alan Ruck.
Sheen shared a version of the story with Fox News' Jesse Watters on the day the book was released. "Bill Clinton was EYEING my GIRLFRIEND," Watters said in the caption of the post to X, formerly Twitter, of the interview.
🚨 NEW: ACTOR CHARLIE SHEEN says he was "BORN DEAD" and NOW HE’S SPILLING HIS GUTS… AND NOT HOLDING BACK 🤯
"You have to STOP living"
"Bill Clinton was EYEING my GIRLFRIEND"
"I started SMOKING because of JOHNNY DEPP"
"OJ’s RIGHT HAND is REALLY LETHAL" pic.twitter.com/HkY1utVLug
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) September 10, 2025
Clinton's lasting legacy is marked by his escapades with then-intern Monica Lewinsky, but that relationship is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the rumors surrounding the former president's wandering eye. Sheen's story would have taken place several years before Clinton disgraced the Oval Office, but it tracks with what many others said about Clinton.
"It was pretty surreal as Gov. Clinton gave me a pair of red and white Razorback shoes, intentionally tacky and modeled after the mascot of Arkansas’ sports teams," Sheen said of the gift at the time. However, it wasn't the shoes that really stuck with Sheen.
"I was answering a reporter’s questions when Ruck overheard Clinton whisper to one of his aides: ‘Find out what you can about the brunette.’ The brunette was Dolly, and to this day Alan swears it was an exact quote,'" the Two and a Half Men star said.
"I felt bad for Dolly to be objectified and skeeved out like that, but still had to take some pride in ‘Bubba’ fancying my gal," Sheen quipped. "Alan gave Dolly the rundown in the bar later on that same night," he added.
"To her credit, she laughed and was actually flattered," Sheen said of Fox. If Sheen is accurate in his remarks, this would have been five years before Clinton became president and almost a decade before the Lewinsky scandal showed that side of Clinton for all of America to see.
Clinton was 49 when he began his relationship with the then-22-year-old Lewinsky during his first term as president. However, the scandal would finally come to light in 1998 and, for better or worse, make Lewinsky and her evidence-stained blue dress notorious in the eyes of the public.
After Clinton admitted to the "inappropriate relationship" he had with Lewinsky after telling a different tale under oath, the House of Representatives charged Clinton with obstruction of justice and perjury. The Senate later acquitted him, but Sheen said he knew of Clinton's "behavior" long before the story broke because of what happened with Fox.
"Clearly, the behavior that transformed a harmless intern a few years later into a household name had been in play long before her blue dress became famous. It was quite the moment in time to be ringside for that slice of creepy history," Sheen boasted.
"Years later in rehab, while watching the Lewinsky hearings play out, I shared the Clinton–Dolly story with my fellow ’habbers.' I was still pretty faded on detox meds, and no one believed me. I literally said out loud to the group huddled around the TV, ‘It’s kool, I’ll put it in a book one day and you can all go f--- yourselves.’ (And here we are.)," Sheen claimed.
Judging from what others have said about Clinton for decades, there's a very good possibility this alleged incident with Dolly Fox happened the way Sheen described. Sheen has his own tarnished history to apologize for, but his revelation about Clinton is one that only adds to a legacy of "creepy" behavior from the now 79-year-old Democrat.
The Senate voted to confirm 48 nominees of President Donald Trump's choosing, breaking through a months-long Democrat blockade, as the AP reported.
Majority leader John Thune (R-SD) invoked the so-called nuclear option, saying Democrats left no alternative to changing Senate procedures. The newly confirmed picks include U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is the former fiancée of Trump's eldest son Donald Jr., and ambassador to Switzerland Callista Gingrich, the wife of Newt Gingrich.
The GOP voted to seat the 48 nominees in a single 51-47 vote. There are still dozens of lower-level Trump picks awaiting confirmation.
“Republicans have fixed a broken process,” Thune said ahead of the vote.
While the minority party usually votes to confirm at least some nominees quickly, Democrats under minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have put up unprecedented obstruction as the left-wing base pressures the party to oppose the new administration.
Schumer claims that the blockade was made necessary because Trump's picks are uniquely unqualified. But Republicans say they are restoring some normalcy after Democrats made it impossible for the Senate to function properly.
Republicans voted unanimously to change the rules, with even moderate Republicans like Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) joining.
That's a sign of just how partisan the Democrats' approach truly was. “For almost eight months now, Democrats have dragged out the confirmation of every one of President Trump’s nominees,” Thune said.
“By restoring Senate precedent on confirmations, we have helped ensure that the Senate is able to fulfill all of its responsibilities.”
The new rules allow Trump -- and all future presidents - to advance unlimited lower-level nominees in groups. The changes do not apply to Cabinet picks or judges.
This is not the first time the party in power has gone "nuclear" to advance the president's nominees.
Democrat Harry Reid set the precedent during the Obama administration, paving the way for Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to lower the threshold to confirm Supreme Court nominees during Trump's first term.
Democrats, powerless to stop Trump's picks, are warning that Republicans will eventually regret their decision to weaken the minority party's power.
“This is a sad, regrettable day for the Senate,” Schumer said last week. “And I believe it won’t take very long for Republicans to wish they had not pushed the chamber further down this awful road.”
While political fortunes will eventually turn, it is hard to argue that Republicans made a mistake by ending Schumer's unprecedented blockade. Schumer did not give Republicans any other choice.
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A special visa program, the H-1B program that allows companies to hire foreign workers to replace Americans in those same duties at much lower salaries, is facing a bombshell from President Donald Trump.
He plans to impose a $100,000 fee on all such visa applications.
The program was created on the idea that there were not enough American workers with specific tech skills to fill the jobs that were open.
Under the plan, companies must "advertise" job openings, and then when no one responds to their sometimes extremely obscure announcements, they are allowed to hire foreigners for those positions.
Tech companies like Microsoft and others are known to have taken advantage repeatedly of such manipulations.
But Trump has announced plans to sign an executive order that is adding a $100,000 fee to all applications.
Currently, fees for the program start about $2,000 per visa, and generally don't go much higher.
According to the New York Post, the White House confirmed the plan.
"The move marks the latest crackdown by the administration on migrants coming into the U.S. for job opportunities, and is likely intended to limit visa applicants to those from higher financial brackets," the Post said.
"The administration views the current H-1B visa program — which admits hundreds of thousands of workers into the U.S. each year — as a way for companies to exploit lower-wage employees, ultimately impacting U.S. salaries," it said.
Of concern is that U.S. students could avoid science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields because of the flood of foreigners being brought into the U.S. in those fields.
Such a transfer of power through employment is considered by many to be a national security threat.
The government, meanwhile, has confirmed that some 70% of H-1B visa recipients are from India, which has made an industry of moving tech jobs from America to its own shores.
In addition to the new cash fee, the president also apparently has plans to order the nation's secretary of labor to begin making a rule that would revise the prevailing-wage requirements of the program.
Bloomberg News said it's all intended to limit the use of special visas to harm the wages of Americans.
The stocks for Indian IT corporations that rely on the visa advantage plummeted when the news was released.
There also are other visa programs, like the OPT program providing for U.S.-based work for students, that also are the subject of investigations.