Microsoft Got an H-1B Smackdown — They're Already Trying to Get Around It | 10/27/26

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It hasn't even been a month since Vice President JD Vance laid the smackdown on Microsoft for its heavy abuse of the H-1B visa and PERM system. Now the company is already looking for a workaround. It is now rebranding layoffs as “voluntary buyouts” so it can get rid of 60,000 employees, asking them to leave with some severance pay. It’s clear what they’re doing here — getting rid of perfectly good American workers and not get penalized so they can still ship in cheap foreign workers.Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Somalia) is doing the worst damage control ever. After all the heat from the FBI raid on her home and her train wreck MS NOW interview, you would think maybe she would lay low. But instead, she’s trying to rehab her image by doing interviews with a radical that is somehow more hated than her: Hasan Piker.James Comey and the FBI’s shadowy past are back in the spotlight. Comey has been indicted by the DOJ once again, this time over allegedly leaking classified material to the press. Meanwhile, two former FBI officials face charges tied to their testimony about the Hunter Biden laptop. One of them even bragged about running a shadow government from inside the agency. Now the question is