Ro Khanna
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Podcast Appearances
That's how I won my seat.
I just had Indian Americans, every Indian American go knock on doors and say, I'm Ro Khanna.
You know, they all thought the candidate came to every door.
I will say one of my appearances, I think this is number four, but one of them was on election night.
And it was with Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr.
And I actually ran into him in the green room right before we were doing Squawk Box.
And he brought up the Pod Save interview.
So there you go, bringing the sides together.
First of all, there's definitely abuse.
Second, it definitely needs to be corrected.
The reality is that some of the H-1B visa holders are being paid below market wages.
Some of them are not going to super talented individuals or in the jobs that actually require a lot of skill.
And
I had a bill, a bipartisan bill, actually, that would have reformed it, requiring paying a prevailing wage, requiring making sure that the categories actually were skilled categories.
I don't love the blanket hundred thousand fee.
I think that that's not the best way to reform it.
But if
Partly because it puts an unfair burden on startups.
It actually may hurt with talent.
But if you wanted to say, look, there's going to be some prevailing wage standard and we need reforms, I'm open to that.