Alan Bayer

DOL’s H-1B wage rule has still not been finalized, more than five months after the public comment period closed. Here’s why it matters. Today, employers can pay entry-level H-1B workers at a wage set below what 83% of U.S. workers in the same occupation earn. The proposed rule would raise that threshold, requiring employers to pay more. It’s a step in the right direction, although setting the minimum at the 75th percentile would do much more to protect U.S. tech workers, and the proposed rule still has the entry level wage set below the median level. Five months is long enough. Finalize implementing the rule.

A progressive group led by former Biden, Warren and Sanders aides has assembled a 182-page blueprint mapping out potential Democratic congressional investigations targeting President Trump's corporate allies and donors. The document, obtained and analyzed by Fox News Digital, names Tesla, Apple, Amazon, OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Oracle and others as targets for potential hearings. It also names Palantir's Alex Karp and Coinbase's Brian Armstrong individually. The blueprint goes beyond corporate targets, urging scrutiny of Trump's personal finances, his tax arrangements, cryptocurrency businesses and alleged preferential treatment of corporate donors. A longtime Democratic Senate staffer familiar with the process says Democratic majorities on these committees already plan to exclusively focus on targeting allies and donors of the president, including those who donated to the new White House ballroom. Full story here foxnews.com/politics/progres…