MSNBC host Michael Steele on Sunday criticized billionaire X owner Elon Musk over another online “war” he and fellow Donald Trump nominee Vivek Ramaswamy started in defense of the H-1B visa program, which, according to CBS News, tech businesses rely on to bring “thousands of foreign engineers and other skilled workers each year from India, China and other nations.”CBS reports:That debate has again erupted after Musk, himself once on an H-1B visa and whose electric vehicle company Tesla has hired workers using the program, defended the tech industry’s need to bring in foreign workers. Ramaswamy, for his part, wrote in an X post that American culture “has venerated mediocrity over excellence,’ leading to a nation that does “not produce the best engineers.”There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent. It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley,’ Musk wrote on Dec. 25 on X, his social media app.When one Trump supporter criticized Musk’s support of the visa program on Friday, Musk replied “The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B. Take a big step back and F— YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.”READ MORE: ‘It’s a joke’: Trump appointee Ramaswamy’s economic plan blasted by expert Steele offered his take on the issue. “You’ve got Vivek and Elon talking about how lazy white men are,” Steele said. “That’s why everybody got upset.”The former Republican National Committee Chair continued, “Elon may want to go to war on an issue like this, but he’s going to war against a base that does not want Vivek Ramaswamy here. Even though he’s a citizen. Vivek is like, ‘Well, you’re too dumb to do the job that we have done.’ Elon Musk is not hiring Donald Trump’s base to come work at SpaceX. He’s not hiring that base to come work at Google, or whatever company he buys next.”Steele then slammed Musk for telling his critic to “take a big step back and ‘F’ yourself in the face.””Who the is this man?” the MSNBC host said. “Except an immigrant.” READ MORE: Musk and Ramaswamy to confront Congress in struggle for control of the public purseWhen co-host Symone Sanders-Townsend added, “naturalized US citizen,” Steele emphasized, “Still an immigrant.”Watch the video below or at this link.
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