Tesla founder Elon Musk is a vocal proponent of H-1B visas, and his company's use of the program jumped sharply this year.

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Republican leader Vivek Ramaswamy stepped down as the co-leader of the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) just 69 days after being appointed. The move comes after mounting pressure from key Republican figures and Elon Musk himself,

Created in 1990 and intended for skilled foreign workers, the visa had until recently remained little known outside Silicon Valley, where technology companies use it to employ tens of thousands.

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Indian-origin entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy announced to drop out of the new DOGE in Trump 2.0. He is now planning to run for Ohio Governor, according to reports.

The tension came to light hours after Trump’s inauguration, when Ramaswamy announced he would not co-lead DOGE with Musk.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said that he and Elon Musk have "hugged it out" and resolved their differences, going so far as to compare the billionaire to Albert Einstein. " SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, I mean, the guy is our Einstein," Dimon told CNBC.

Trump loyalists in Silicon Valley support the foreign worker permit but political strategists and Republicans are against the programme.

US companies use the H-1B visa to employ tens of thousands of foreign expertise each year, the lion's share coming from India

Officially, the H-1B program aims to provide temporary visas to foreign workers who possess rare intellectual skills. And it has helped Silicon Valley giants attract top talent, while enabling hundreds of thousands of foreign-born people to enter the United States and earn far higher wages than they would have received back home.