How War, Tariffs, and Other Foreign Policy Issues Could Affect the U.S. Midterms

The administration argues that restrictions, such as those on the H-1B visa, are designed to “curb abuses and protect American workers.” In a presidential proclamation in September 2025, Trump said that the H-1B program was “created to bring temporary workers into the United States to perform additive, high-skilled functions, but it has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor.”