Sanders slams Musk for H-1B visa worker comments: ‘Indentured servants’

Published January 2, 2025 9:04pm ET



Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unleashed a scathing rebuke of Elon Musk’s support for H-1B visa workers in a statement posted to the billionaire’s social media platform on Thursday.

Sanders accused Musk of supporting the program not to hire “the best and the brightest” but instead to “replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad.”

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