Trump administration

The Trump administration has announced another major H-1B visa reform, scrapping the existing lottery for a wage-based selection system.

After winning the Presidential election in November 2024, Trump appointed Homan as his “border czar”, an advisory role which did not require a Senate confirmation or a full background check by the FBI.

“So, the president (Trump) called nonsense on that and said you got to stop that stuff. So, I think India, we’ll sort it out once they stop buying Russian oil,” Howard Lutnick added.

Responding to Trump’s ‘announcement’, Prime Minister Narendra affirmed confidence in paving a way in trade negotiations to unlock the potential of India-US partnership.

Trump administration’s ‘bully the friends, humiliate the allies, squeeze maximum profits, leave nothing behind’ approach has inflicted humiliation and burdening trade deal on another key ally ­­—Japan.

The former US officials asserted that it is imperative for US partners to “impress on their Indian interlocutors that US President Donald Trump's theatrics are often the prelude to dealmaking."

Richard D Wolff called Navarro “not the sharpest knife in the drawer”, asserting that anyone who has a trade relation with Russia is in some way making money off that trade because that is why trade happens.

It seems that even Trump administration’s officials have taken note of the anti-Brahmin rhetoric in India unleashed by Congress and other anti-BJP parties and realised that this narrative can be used to get things done and pressure the Modi government into acting as per US’s whims.

After Denmark’s public broadcaster, DR, reported that three US citizens were involved in a secret plan to secede Greenland, Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen summoned the top U.S. diplomat in Copenhagen.

The committee questioned the US administration's intent behind tariffs against India, remarking, "It's almost like it's not about Ukraine at all."